Ever played beer pong? Some background. You play beer pong in teams of 2 - one team of 2 versus another team of 2. Each team stands at opposite ends of a table (or designated throwing line). The goal - throw a ping-pong ball into a cup filled with liquid across the table. There are 2 ping-pong balls - each team member gets one shot. If you make the ping-pong ball in one of the cups that cup is removed and the other team is required to drink (either the liquid in the cup or from their drink cup/can). Usually the liquid in the cup is beer gasp! Though, some people play with water and have a separate beer drinking cup or can - this is for cleanliness reasons. Of course, there are many different rules to go along with the game - like same-cupping and rearranging - but those aren’t of importance at this time.

So, you now some background on the game of beer pong, but how is this related to motivation or focusing. Let’s relate it to blogging (or any project really).

In beer pong, if you win you stay at the table. The more games you play the less sober you are going to get. The less sober you get the harder it is to focus. You need to be able to focus on the cup in order to put the ping-pong ball in the cup. You start the game with a clear head ready to take on the task at hand. You have focus, you want to make cups and win the game. The more you play the more the beer disrupts your focus. It becomes harder to concentrate on the cups - if you want to make a cup you need to be able to focus on that cup. Blurry vision and loss of balance can come into play.

When starting a new blog, like when you start a game of beer pong, you have a fresh / sober outlook. You are excited to start and easily motivated by the thought of success and other things. You have, hopefully, set your goals and have a clear vision of what you want to get out of this new project. Updating your blog is easy in the beginning. You have fresh ideas that you can’t wait to share with everyone. Your blog has that new toy feel. As time goes on it gets harder to keep up the high level of excitement. Your vision, or goal can become blurry. It gets harder to focus on posting and promoting your site. Motivation starts to lack and things can come to a stand still.

This happens all the time. A new blog hits the Internet and a few months later it’s sitting there - dead. The motivation and focus ran out. If you don’t want your site to end up like this, if you want your blog to be successful, you have to keep focused. You are in control of your blogs’ future. Stay motivated and keep it alive. It takes time to really grow a blog - longer than a few months - so you have to be willing to stick it out and stay focused.

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