22 Fantastic Reasons to Blog (That Aren’t About Money)

“Money is numbers and numbers never end.
If it takes money to be happy,
your search for happiness will never end.”
Bob Marley

If you’re like a quarter of the women surveyed in 2015 , your answer would be, “Heckity heck yes!” Blogging seems to be the ultimate flexible, lifestyle-friendly, work-from-anywhere-anytime job. And a whopping 11% of the bloggers surveyed earned more than $30,000 per year.

Heyyyyy, hang on just a sec. Say what? Did I just say eleven percent?
Only about one in ten bloggers makes more than $2,500 per month?

Before you toss away your keyboard in despair, let’s talk about reasons and rewards for blogging and what it really means to get blogging success.

Using Money as a Measure

Most new bloggers I know measure their success by their income. It’s simple, and we use money every day in our society (rightly or wrongly) to judge a person’s worth.

While I’d argue that money is never a good measure of worth, it’s a particularly dangerous practice in blogging. In almost no other type of business – with the exception of my own, coaching – are people told they could be earning five figures per month within a few months of starting. “No skills? No experience? No idea of how things work? No problem!” It’s typical that the people who promote these lies are doing so to manipulate the emotions and aspirations of fresh bloggers. They’re taking advantage of people who don’t yet know how to attract followers and interpret blogging analytics. When susceptible new bloggers “fail,” they end up feeling bad about themselves – for absolutely no good reason.

And that’s not right.

A Few More Blogging Money Truths

Ponder this:

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I know, right? It’s not easy.

But don’t give up. This isn’t the whole story.

Keep in mind that a variety of factors influence success in blogging and it’s definitely possible to beat the numbers. Hard work, patience, resilience , and having powerful shorter-term goals are just a few things that make a big difference. (Psst – so does having a good blogging coach.)

Ultimately, though, it comes down to this:

Have other reasons to blog than the money.

I bet you do have other reasons, but sometimes forget to value them. Amiright?

So let’s change that.

True Blogging Success

When you’re so focused on stats (money, traffic, etc.), it’s easy to forget that actual, real, living and breathing people are receiving the good stuff you’re putting out.

Seems like a big “duh,” but I’d like you to pause and think about this for a moment.

Through blogging, you have the power to reach real people and change lives.

Through blogging, you can also change your own life.

If you change just one life, it’s worth it. Likely, though, you’ll change more than one.

True success isn’t measured by money or other stats.

Through blogging, you can change the world.

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22 Reasons to Blog That Aren’t About Money

I spoke to bloggers all across the interwebs, including the most awesomely amazing folks in my Facebook group, The Blogger’s Cure . They shared with me their reasons for blogging.

I proudly present to you 22 reasons to blog that aren’t about the money.

Which are your reasons? Click to tweet them out loudly and proudly!

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And these reasons are more valuable than gold. Keep on blogging!

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(By the way, those are chocolate coins. Money and love are good, but chocolate is pretty good, too.)

So why do YOU blog? Did you tweet your reason above? Tell me more in the comments!

BEIJOS FROM BRAZIL,