PB077: How to Set Blog Changing Goals for the New Year - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

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How to Set Goals That Will Improve Your BlogToday's episode is about how to set goals that will improve your blog. Research shows that by simply writing goals down, you are more likely to achieve them. I find setting goals difficult, but this has definitely been true for me! Today's episode is a special interview with Stacey Roberts, the author of the Vege Mama blog. We talk about what you can do to make sure you have the highest chance of meeting your blog goals, in the most painless way possible.





In This EpisodeYou can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode:

Why you should make goals instead of new year resolutionsA question you should ask yourself to work out what you need to do to improve your blog in the next year
6 ways that goals can help you improve your blogHow to make your'to do'list more achievable
5 key areas you should set goals for your blog6 strategies you can use to increase your chances of achieving your blog goals
3 reasons why people fail at achieving their goals (and how to make sure you avoid them)What to do right now to make sure you include goals into your blog game plan for the new year

Further Reading and Resources for How to Set Goals That Will Improve Your BlogHow to Do an End of 2015 Blog Audit: Take Stock of What You’ve Achieved and Where You’re Headed
The Beginner's Guide to Goal Setting - Michael Hyatt
An example of a blog review post, on the Money Saving Mom blogThe tool I mention that's great for to-do lists, Wunderlist
Keep your goals to yourself - the TED Talk by Derek Sivers that we mentionMeet my new friend, Edgar (and a SPECIAL OFFER)Full TranscriptExpand to view full transcript
Compress to smaller transcript viewI’d like to welcome a new sponsor to the ProBlogger podcast for the duration of this 10 part series, my friend ‘Edgar'.

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Darren: Hi there. This is Darren from ProBlogger and welcome to episode 77 of the ProBlogger Podcast and the first episode of 2016. It feels a little bit strange to me saying that. I haven’t said that too many times yet because it (as I record this) is halfway through December in 2015 if I’m honest, but I wanted to get this one recorded because I think it’s so important.Today we are going to talk about setting blog-changing goals for your blog. Goals that are going to help you to take your blog to the next level in 2016. To help me to explore this topic, I decided to bring in Stacey Roberts who is the editor of ProBlogger and has been for the last couple of years now. Stacey has really been instrumental in helping me to take ProBlogger to the next level over the last year or so, one of the teams that I have brought on to help me with that. She is a little bit different personality-wise. We do talk about our personalities in this particular episode. It helped me, as well as a few other people in my team, too, to get a little bit more structured in my thinking about this type of stuff.

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