Those are the three most despicable words you could ever say as a blogger. Or as a professional.

Or as a human being.

I don’t matter murders your faith, your hope, your courage.

I don’t matter exalts your despair, your doubt, your fear, your failure.

I don’t matter may be why you stopped when your blog stuttered. Why you looked back when it got hard. Why you remain silent.

Why so many bloggers will skip Blog Action Day. Why one more person will die alone.

I don’t matter is a lie. A damnable lie.

I don’t matter shoved me mercilessly to the very brink of doom one dark night in 1998. Those three words would have murdered me had a dear friend not rescued me from the abyss with an embrace I shall never forget.

If you never listen to anything I say ever again, listen to these two gloriously true words:

You matter.

And so your blog matters.

You will never know in this life how great a difference you will make and how many lives you will bless through your devoted service.

Remember these words. They saved me 10 years ago. They may save you or someone through you someday.

Please show this to a friend who needs it.

Thanks to Darren for the inspiration.

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Do you ever lose hope regarding your business blog? Ever worry that business blogging may be wasting your time and money? Terrified of blog failure?

If so, you’re not alone. Many business bloggers experience despair to some degree. I sure have.

Here are some tips on how to develop hope in your professional blogging efforts and boost your blogging success.

What is hope?

Hope is a feeling that you can achieve your goals. It’s waiting with excitement and confidence for the future.

3 Ways Hope Can Help Your Business Blog

1. Business Blog Content – Your personality comes through naturally in your writing. So does your hope (or lack of it). If you’re a hopeful person, your blog will become more interesting and appealing.

2. Business Blog Community Building – The more hope you instill in your blog community of readers, commenters, subscribers and participants, the easier it will be to make that community grow.

3. Business Blog Monetization – People do business with people. And it’s much easier to want to do business with a person who’s positive and full of hope than with one of these.

7 Ways to Develop Hope in Your Business Blogging

1. Hopeful Learning – See Awareness. Approach each blogging day with a positive outlook. Thirst for knowledge and wisdom and resolve to use it to benefit your blog visitors. Set aside a few minutes each day to learn things that will make you feel more hopeful about your blog’s future. Read some good quotations about hope.

2. Hopeful Planning – See Focus and Discernment. Always have something to look forward to. Have a publishing calendar and stick to it. Spend a few minutes per day and/or per week to plan enjoyable and rewarding blog-related activities.

3. Hopeful Social Networking – Every day or week, take a little time to network with other bloggers in an uplifting way. Approach it not like it’s a chore, but like it’s a great opportunity to grow and connect.

4. Hopeful Music – See Imagination. Listen to encouraging music while you’re blogging. Maybe it will help you come up with excellent blog post ideas.

5. Hopeful Humor – Again, see Imagination. Nothin’ like a little laughter to spice up a blog (or its blogger). Get out there and get some laughs in you. Then get back to your blogging with a smile on your face. You’ll work harder.

6. Hopeful Content Promotion – Believe in your ability to promote your awesome blog content. Trust that people will enjoy it and talk about it and want more of it.

7. Hopeful Sales/Marketing – Make sure your calls to action for product/service purchases, or your blog advertising on display, are hope-compatible. Anything monetary ought to involve a touch of hope – that human spark that draws customers like bees to honey. So keep your language positive and confident when asking people to buy from you.

Why I Personally Care About Hope in My Pro Blogging

Visionary Blogging is all about working with hope. Without hope, you may as well blog with your eyes and ears closed. So it is with life.

Halfway through my senior year of high school, I almost gave up on life.

I almost lost hope.

Without good friends, I never would have recovered.

I am here right now because of hope.

What 3 Business Bloggers Say About Hope

Deb Ng: “Hope is watching my son care for nature and all living things and passing on the values passed to me gives me hope for the future.”

Kristen King: “My faith in God’s Kingdom gives me hope. Prayer, personal Bible study, and regular attendance at Christian meetings strengthen it.”

Robert Hruzek: “Hope is the anchor for the soul.” (see Hebrews 6:19)

Thanks to these fine folks for answering my Twitter request for thoughts on hope.

3 Exemplary Hopeful Business Bloggers

1. Terry Starbucker – Mr. Glass Half Full himself.

2. Liz Strauss – Liz is hope.

3. Wendy Piersall – Wendy’s story is amazing.

Watch This Video About Hope

I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope. – Red

You don’t have to consider yourself religious in order to have hope.

But you do need to have faith in order to have hope.

Ya gotta have a twinkle of hope, a flicker, at least. Let it grow into a flame.

You need to believe that somehow, things can get better. That somehow, you can get better.

That somehow, your professional blog can get better.

And make things better for others.

Thank you for visiting and for adding to my hope for this blog. I hope that this article helps you succeed as a professional blogger.

What helps you develop hope as a blogger? Got any advice to share?

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