Great post! I am choosing this as the Post of the Day.

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I feel that you can, however, analyse things too much and in doing so start to make excuses for poor performance. If you think: “Oh this is winter, therefore things are expected to be slower,” then they will be. Our thinking creates our results.

It’s up to us as individuals to create incentives to keep us moving forward – and believe that any difficulties are purely temporary.

Mike.

Outstanding work, Darren, please keep the goodness flowing.

I actually find that ‘winter’ blogging is much like the attitude needed to be taken by cyclists doing the Tour de France. When everyone braces for the mountain rides, the guys who do the best are the ones who attack them.

They realise that mountains are part of the journey and the logical place to go against their unwilling flesh.

Great post.

I’ll look forward to the gardening blog….

My post frequency here has been slightly down – but it’s mainly due to two things:

1. preparing for a trip
2. responding to a few readers who kept telling me I was posting too much – I thought I’d try posting 2-3 times a day instead of 5-6

My own season at the moment would probably be Autumn.

I’d then write a blog article about this news but make it unique. Use keywords within the content and blog title that people would search on for this peice of news.

You’ll be amazed how many extra visitors this brings and also how many new readers you get on board. I wrote about a number of travel news stories, and it shot my stats through the roof.

I’m glad you kept going, you’ve helped a lot of people along the way.

For me, Winter produces the most content [the real world winter], and for my blog’s winter, when things seem hard I am somehow able to produce fresh content more since I tend to take more breaks from normal thinking and focus on different things.

Another trick in addition to what you mentioned is to be realistic and not assume that our blog will always be going up, up and way up. Just like in real life, things slow down and things come down. Your own previous posts regarding history of ProBlogger is an example of this, I think. In real life also, we tend to face uphills and boring days where it seems nothing good or progressive is happening. Such things are to be expected. The thing to do is to treat such things also and keep moving forward. It is all part of the journey.

A bit off-topic: I really like your choice of the snowman and the bird. :D That scarf is awesome!

Viewed all together, these are the Four Seasons. Think about it: one of the most recognized and beautiful pieces of music (gosh, I was about to write post!). When you’re inside the music, you feel the notes, the tempo, the pauses… yet from the outside, you hear the magnificence of the opus.

So yes, be aware of your rhythms — including commitments, energy levels, and unexpected incidents — and keep an eye on the overall goal, which is what you set out to do. Sometimes the best inspiration comes from the work we’ve already done: don’t take it from granted.

You have done it with ProBlogger by proposing older yet timeless posts from your tremendous body of writing. If you look at some of those posts, what other things have you learned since then? How can you build on the concept in new ways?

Or maybe it’s a new combination of ideas, just like in musical phrases. You sharpen your imagination pencil and surprise yourself with a new turn.

Some tips to renew your spirit:

* listen more — both to your own rhythms and cues and those of others (we all read more than a few blogs, I suspect). It’s amazing how much we can learn to see by just showing up.

* play the “what if” game — what if I were somewhere else, someone else, what would I think about? It gets you out of yourself when you’re feeling down and it may give you 3 posts instead of one when you’re feeling like conquering the world.

* write it down — no matter how trivial what you’re thinking about, capture it in some form and let it sit in a folder or a place you can get to easily. Just the act of writing it down stabilizes the information and lets you relax into creative mode. Now you don’t have to remember it.

When you persist through the rough patches, you find that you become more resilient to slow downs in your productive cycles.

Season blogging is good idea but u need to work on it.Specially it depens on person to person.