Month: February 2016

Blogging · Little rants

Shaking My Head…A Little Blogging Thought

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Sometimes, you read some things that make you shake your head in wonder.1455163144750[1]

It makes you realize that even though humans are inherently selfish, some have extra doses of it.

Here I am feeling happy with my stats that seems to be jumping up in bits and I read someone’s blog only to hear them complain about having just 500 views which they consider as ‘piddling views.’

How ungrateful is that? In my opinion, you ought to be grateful for even one view!

It’s a privilege that people come to your site to read your articles and not your right. They are not obliged to do so.

Maybe, you should consider paying for the views, that way, the line would grow so long, hmm?

You ain’t no superstar yet, so just why do you think that 500 views are piddling for you when there are so many other bloggers who are scrounging for 100 views?

What have you been doing for these faithful readers of yours, that should make them glad to be around you?

Possibly, Ziltch, Nada, Nothing, Rien.

Maybe, you don’t even bother to read other peoples blogs, because you are too busy feeling like God’s gift to blogging Earth and caught up in your own World.

We all want millions of views, but it comes at a price and with  lots of sacrifices.

I keep reminding myself each day that ‘yes, I love the stats, but I should never lose focus on the reason why I am writing.’

When you lose focus on why it is that you are mingling with others, you stand the chance of becoming ungracious.

You stand the chance of developing unnecessary anxiety over the numbers and spend all your time comparing notes.

Appreciate where you are at each point in time. Adjust if need be.

Otherwise, not only will you begin to suck, but over time, your blog will suck as well.

Attitude is everything and I honestly can’t stand selfish people.

There it is! I have had my little rant and I hope someone will read this and make some sense out of it, especially the whiner.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

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Midnight Motivation and Musings…

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The ups and downs of life are guaranteed. It’s full of uncertainties and can never be perfect.

However, how we handle these uncertainties that life throws at us is what perfects our moments.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

 

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It’s A Love Thing…Featured Blogs #8

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For the next few days till my Valentine Shindig, I will be featuring several blogs a day on one post, as a way of showing some love to fellow awesome and supportive blogger friends of mine. 1454511643782[1] Continue reading “It’s A Love Thing…Featured Blogs #8” →

Blogging · Gratitude · Hope · Quotes For You · Self Help

When You Want To Go Far…

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The funny African proverb that says ‘when we all piss together it foams’ comes to my mind as I write this post.

Another one equally states that ‘when you want to go fast, you go alone, but if you want to go very far, you go with others.’

For the first time, I will be hosting a blog party (Valentine Shindig) and hopefully, from then I will continue hosting a monthly blog-hop meet ups to encourage newbies as well as the older ones to mingle and develop a cohesive community.

I sent out feelers to feel the pulse of my readers and not only has the response been awesome but the support as well and I cannot fail but to express my appreciation.

A good number of lovely bloggers have shown their support and encouragement to me by re-blogging and tweeting my invitation and posts in this regard and it totally fills me with a sense of gratitude and joy.

There is no way that I would be able to do it by myself or to cover as much ground if not for the generosity and support that I have received from a good number of you.

I am thankful and indeed grateful to have supportive friends in this community and as is said in my place ‘the fowl does not forget the person that allowed her to roost by her fireplace during the raining season. ‘During your rainy days, may you find a warm fireplace to roost.’

You can join Colline’s  or Maria Jansson gratitude challenge platforms.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

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Corridors…Wordless Wednesday

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Who Is Looking At Who?…

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The bag was looking at me.

I was looking back at the bag that was looking at me

She was looking at me look at the bag that was looking at me.

We were looking at each other 😉

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Challenges · Haiku · Poetry/Poems · Rononvan's Weekly Haiku Challenge

Tried…Ronovans Weekly Haiku Challenge #83

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I like the combination of words we have this week for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge. Gem and ‘Flame’.

Here are my two takes.

When we pass through circumstances 

Of life’s searing flames

We become refined rare gems.

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A gem he proved not to be

She heartily bade him goodbye

Their flame of lust had gone cold.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

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Here Is Your Invitation….RSVP Please

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High Streaking STATS…

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Well, WordPress dear, you always take the words out of my mouth by asking a question sometimes, when I am thinking of it.

I have looked at the my stats and I am still trying to understand the correlation of the views to the posts that got the highest number of views and the thing is that the articles all differ but my stats have been popping like popcorn for going on two weeks.

I think it is owed to the fact that I turned up the heat of my blogging a notch higher and putting in a little extra work so it’s showing on the stats.

Like is said, the stats don’t tell a lie and I won’t either.

As at January ending my streak was ranging between 300 and 400 views a day, but since the past 10 days, it’s scaled up.

My highest view was 723 views and the post that got the most views on that day was ‘Echoes Of My Neighbourhood.’ Yayy!! My new challenge is topping the charts 🙂

The second highest was 644 views and it was from my homepage/archives, followed by ‘I hacked it off.’ I had no idea people would be interested in my chopping off my hair. Hmm!

The stats for 622 views had the post of ‘what a gracious host’ coming tops and it was just a thank you note.

I honestly haven’t been able to figure out how these posts relate. I have been running the ‘It’s a love thing post’ for several days and my thought was that it would generate far more views, surprisingly, I see that it has not.

The stats 546 and 505 both have my archives as the top pages/posts and I would love to know what the readers a looking at. Unfortunately, clicking on it does not provide a breakdown of what they are reading.

If anyone can make sense of these things that I just said and my stats, I would be glad to listen and learn. Let’s wait and see if it’s a fluke.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

The Daily Post Stats Connection

Go to your Stats page and check your top 3-5 posts. Why do you think they’ve been successful? Find the connection between them, and write about it.

A link to my neighbours/Community · Blog-hopping · Featured Blogs

It’s A Love Thing #7…Featured Blogs

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For the next few days till my Valentine Shindig, I will be featuring several blogs a day on one post, as a way of showing some love to fellow awesome and supportive blogger friends of mine. 1454511643782[1]

You can share the fun and the love by sharing the party invitation as much as you can. Bring your Bae, your sweetheart, your neighbourlybloggers, your old lady, your old man, even your dogs and cats are invited.

It’s a way to connect with other bloggers and hey, who knows, you might hit it off with someone 😉

Please share and share alike. Thank you very much.

For today’s features, I am showing some love to the bloggers listed below:

‘Let love and faithfulness never leave you’ Proverbs 3:3

Melinda thank you so much for all your support and encouragement.

Africa Bohemian my diva, thank you for being there.

Tessa you are a lovely soul.

Deborah you are awesome. Thank you and lots of love.

Candice my appreciations for your support.

Jennie may faithfulness never depart from you. Thank you.

JoHanna you are a source of inspiration. Thank you.

Alice may your joy be full. Thank you for your kind words always.

Nadine you have been such a good friend. My sincere appreciations.

Katie, I appreciate your kind support.

Azul, I thoroughly enjoy our interactions. My sincere regards.

Violet you make me laugh and smile. Your words bring me to blush now and again, but I love our interactions a lot. I am happy to know you.

Vijaya you are like light. Any time you come around, I feel bright. Thank you.

Annette, I am glad that we connected in this place. These weeks of interacting with you have been great.

Its a thought you don’t know how your gravatar makes me smile with the cute animal in the bin. I love having you around thank you.

Kelly you always make me think of a fairy godmother. Your words always infuse courage and happiness. Thank you.

Khaya, my deep appreciations for all these months of tarrying in this space with me. You rock.

‘Walking this path, I have been so blessed to have you all by my side. Thank you very much.’

My regards,

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha