Just like Kyle always says when he talks about writing content that you don't have to wait till it is perfect is true. And that is because it will never be. You will always be getting better and better. You just have to do the best you can now, and know that is good enough at this point.
I look at it like this, if you were to write 100 articles in say 100 days. If you improved just 1% on every article, well by the time number 100 rolls around, you will be writing perfect articles.
I look back at my earlier stuff, whether it is my horse training, my building rustic log furniture, my writing and I ask myself, why did I think that was good? It is because that is the best I had at the time and then I grew and learned more.
Let me give you some real examples in my life. Little Guy, my quarter horse, is the first horse I ever started. Now I did do a good job with him and he is a good horse. I recorded all my training sessions with him, and when I look back I can see where I should have stopped, where maybe I missed something, where I could have asked him better, etc. I take those and apply it to the horses I start now, and they are that much better.
But even them, I can look back 3 years from now and see where I was making mistakes now, that I didn't know, but will in time.
Another example is one I just found out and it is with my writing. I am always getting a little bit better each time with my writing, and I looked just recently on my site and I can see where I can improve on all the pages that I put on there at the start. I see what I can do better now, because I have learned that much more. Don't get me wrong, I did do well with the pages, but I can improve them to get even that much better.
And a year from now I will look back and see what I can improve on again, but I think it is fine now.
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There are 2 ways you can look at this as well. Always be striving for better. Following what the great people in your industry do and learning from them and how they work. Which is what I do, but if you do that, you need to remember all the progress you have been making as well.
Because you can get into a trap and always see all the stuff you have to do. I know I have because I look at people who have been training horses for 18+ years and go, "Gee, they know a lot more then me and are so much better." Yeah they're better, they've been doing it for 5 times longer then I have. And so I look back over what I have accomplished and where I have come from as well.
Always be looking forward, but don't forget to look back, and enjoy where you are in this moment!
If you run out of ideas it could be one of two things.
1) You choose something else for you topic/niche that you are more passionate about and have a lot more ideas on.
2) Sometimes, even though I can talk about my niche all day long, when I sit down to write my mind goes blank. So I would suggest carrying just a small pad of paper and a pen with you wherever you go and then just let inspiration come to you. This is a great exercise.
Also you need to find out what other people are wanting to know about your topic/niche, what questions are they asking? What is the stuff you would talk about to someone who didn't know anything about your niche, and what is the stuff you would talk about to someone who knew just as much as you?
Here is something as well, think about if you had an interview with someone who knew way more then you did, they have been in this topic for 10 years more, 20 years even. What would be some questions you would ask them? And then you can pretend, (like I said before) that you are someone who knows nothing about it, and they are interviewing you about the information you know. What would be some questions they would ask.
Sometimes we are so close to our topic that we forget how vast and big it is and how much stuff we can write about because we know it so well. Also you can do the Google instant as well. Type in something someone would look up but don't finish it, let Google tell you what people are looking for so that gives you ideas.
Another thing is keyword research, if you type in a keyword you are looking up, others will come up and give you ideas as well.
