Refine Your Blog Purpose: 7 Factors to Maximize Feasibility

This post tackles an inevitable challenge when defining your blog’s purpose: envisioning the future without seeing what’s right in front of us.

This is especially common when we start from scratch with no prior experience to draw from.

We become blank slates easily steered in whichever direction the top thinkers and experts go. Their work inspires us to dream big, showing us how high we could reach, but tells us too little about how we can get down to work with just what we have now.

Below, I’ll help you organize, shape, and redefine your blog’s purpose by retaining the unique mix of interests you uncovered in the previous phase while grounding that vision in reality. This sets the groundwork to transform your blog vision and purpose into an actionable content plan in the next phase, built on clear expectations and sustainable standards.

This post also includes summarized excerpts from my own journey, highlighting key moments of iteration, reevaluation, and decision-making across various feasibility checkpoints to help prevent you from burning out and help you realize your vision with the totality of your ideas in mind.

In this stage, we need to evaluate the feasibility of our wildest imaginations and find solutions to previously identified problems to make sure that our blog’s purpose isn’t just empty words. 

In future iterations, you will see notes that mark the changes made between each phase and the last.

It’s all about refocusing our lens until the blog idea is actionable and within our capabilities.

It is important to note that this stage should be a periodic step in your blog management workflow. This also suggests that your blog’s purpose should be flexible, fluid enough to withstand changing interests in the face of time and uncertainty.

Reevaluation of Phase 1 Problems

The Solutions (How can I turn external problems into something I can solve?):  

• Phase 1 Problem #1: Inevitable inflation and a challenging job market during and after COVID. 

I need to adapt. An online presence will make me stand out in the workforce that is increasingly remote during the lockdown. I need to create a blog centered on continuous learning and helping others create a system that is tailored to their current habits, inclinations, and work style.

Not only do I think about my survival first, but I also need to create a long-lasting blog that will continue to create valuable content for others. 

• Phase 1 Problem #2: Increasing unrest and isolation during the lockdown. 

The uneasiness comes from uncertainty and the heightened pressure ahead, which could be managed by proactive learning and reducing mental clutter with a system that helps me navigate between my job, personal projects, and family responsibilities. I need to create a blog centered on continuous learning and helping others create a system that is tailored based on their current habits, inclinations, and work style. 

• Phase 1 Problem #3: Long production times on 3D projects. 

Creating a blog solely for 3D design is unrealistic because project production will interfere with regular content publishing, which will affect audience engagement and Google algorithm ranking. Plus, having only two years’ worth of experience as a 3D designer hardly makes me an expert. I need to create a blog that is flexible enough to explore 3D design and beyond.

Factors to Evaluate the Feasibility of Your Blog 

• Blog Type Formatting: What type of content are you planning to write? Long-form content with detailed research requires more time to write than short-form content with free-flow thoughts. Emotional content that requires dedicated handling between intentional privacy and audience resonance is sometimes harder to write than technical content. 

Does your content need diagrams, videos, and other visual aids? The synchronization and dependency between text and visual elements require extra planning, increased production time, and frequent switches between design/text that may lessen your duration of focus. 

• Publish Frequency: What is your ideal content publishing schedule? A consistent content calendar helps to keep your audience engaged and makes it easy for search engines to recommend your content to others in need. 

The publishing frequency also depends on the expected relevancy to update based on what you ultimately want your blog to be about. A news blog about technology and AI needs to stay relevant and fresh with frequent content updates, while a lifestyle blog that finds effective ways to integrate AI into our everyday routine has more leeway for slower updates.

Can you follow through with your content schedule without disrupting your other life responsibilities? How long your blog lasts ultimately depends on the time, vision, focus, and health of the content creator behind it.

Before thinking about how search engines or your audience may determine your blog’s success, you need to first be in the position to be chosen. 

• Depth of Knowledge: How much could you write about based on your personal expertise on your chosen blog topics? Previously in Phase 1, we’ve made a list of blog topics to brainstorm what our blog will be about. The topics you have the most knowledge about will give you a better head start at idea generation and shorter writing time. 

• Flexibility for Change: How can we have more flexibility in what we can write about? Ultimately, our blog needs to have a revolving theme that supports our blog’s purpose and makes it clear what our blog is about. Too broad, our blog won’t stand out. Too specific, and we’re self-limiting.

By mixing and matching interests with topics we’re knowledgeable about, we extend this benefit further and have more fun in the process.

This expansion in scope reframes our mind to create a more flexible blog purpose, limiting the possibility of our confining ourselves to our restrictions in the future. 

• Required Learning Curve: How much, on average, do you have to read, learn, or do research to write a single post? No matter how knowledgeable you are about a topic, you will have to continuously learn to stay informed and keep up the writing momentum. Based on your standards, expectations, and what your blog will be about, the amount and pace of learning vary, which will affect the time you spend writing. 

How much do you have to learn about blog management? Blogging isn’t just about writing; it’s also about maintaining your website, designing visual elements, marketing your blog, and selling products. Based on your short-term and long-term blogging goals, you will need to determine the amount of time you’ll have to learn the backend and adjust your expectations and schedules accordingly. 

• Ease of Immediate Start: Based on your current blog purpose and what you want to write, would you be able to start and satisfy your own standards immediately? To avoid overplanning, it is best to start blogging immediately without being bogged down by your own heightened expectations and standards. Create a plan on what you can do immediately, but leave room for more. 

• Appropriate Workload Allocation: How do you feel about the scale of work for the visions you have currently with your blog? Be mindful of how you feel when you’re thinking about the work you’ve to do. This is a clue to whether the current workload is a recipe for burnout. There is no shame in starting something new and doing things within your comfort zone; the mere fact that you’re doing something new is growth itself. Remember that you don’t have to be perfect in your plans, don’t lose control in calibrating your own pace, and have the flexibility to adjust your blog visions to keep yourself safe from your human fragilities. 

How do you seek to manage the influx of new tasks so they wouldn’t conflict with your other life responsibilities? When we start something new, the idea of “what is enough to get started” may not be immediately apparent, and we overcompensate in the beginning to offset what we don’t know. But in the end, we need to start somewhere. You will need to set up a routine or create a system to help you organize the overwhelming amount of tasks, which will help you identify what you do and don’t need over time and give you the control to adjust the ratio between work and living life. 

 Legend: [🔵 = correlated events], [🟢 = remain the same from previous phase], [🔴 = changed from previous Phase]

In this phase, I’ve chosen 3D design as the base for what my blog is going to be about because

• My interest in 3D design is at its highest, 
• I have two years of self-learning experience in 3D design, 
• Skills in 3D design are highly popular, versatile, and flexible for future opportunities.

Why didn’t I choose to blog about fashion and Poshmark?

• My interest in Poshmark is limited, 
• I will be associating my blog with a third party I have no control over, 
• Fashion is too varied, subjective, and requires a well-honed taste and style to stand out. 

However, by exploring the topic of fashion, I was able to identify key themes of interest that helped me find a bridge to 3D design: self-expression, systems thinking, and mindset development. Refer to the concept of interest mixing. 

From the “Blog Topics I’ve Brainstormed” below, you can see that:

My future focus for fashion in Phase 1 includes “Systems for non-hassle everyday wear” and “buyer’s remorse, “ which could be associated with the “design thought process” and the “continuous learning” cycle for 3D interior visualization introduced in Phase 1. 

This association expands the scope of 3D interior visualization to include helping others build personalized systems that manage their learning goals and help them navigate self-sabotaging behaviors that are common for creatives and beginners. Refer to the feasibility factors, depth of knowledge, and flexibility for change.

Organizing the Layers of Themes & Topics  

A play with multiple main characters often results in a battle for attention.

In marketing terms, it’s the type of product cannibalism that steals the audience away from a hero product after a new hero is launched, pitting them against each other. In terms of blogging, the common principle is to have one topic of focus so as not to confuse our audience and to make it easier for search engines to understand our sitemap. 

However, it’s not a lost cause if done right. 

• We can find the overarching themes that make the connection between two topics sound natural, intriguing, and easy to understand. 
• Define which topic has priority over the other, which is the main character, and which is for support. 

From the “Blog Topics I’ve Brainstormed” table below, you can see that since I have three topics, two of which were derived from the overarching themes identified in Phase 1, I’ve defined the levels of priority. 

At this stage, I’ve set only 3D interior visualization as the top priority because systems thinking and mindset development are new topics that I haven’t explored as deeply as the former. I’ve assigned the same priority to systems thinking and mindset development because they have a strong correlation with each other, and systems thinking offers a layer of step-by-step structure for mindset development, which is conceptual and even elusive by itself.

 Legend: [🔵 = correlated events], [🟢 = remain the same from previous phase], [🔴 = changed from previous Phase]

Blog Topics I’ve Brainstormed:

With the expansion of the blog’s scope, the blog’s purpose needs to be changed to accommodate this added flexibility. 

As you’ve recalled, a blog’s purpose is made up of four components:

1. What will the blog be about? In this phase, the topics of focus for this blog are: 

• 3D interior visualization 
• Systems thinking 
• Mindset development 

2. What value does it bring to me (for your reference only)? It’s previously defined in the “Reevaluation of Phase 1 Problems” section, 

• I need to create a blog that will naturally position me for a job, and easily evolve into multiple secondary income sources in anticipation of inflation. 
• I need to create a blog centered on continuous learning and helping others create a system that is tailored based on their current habits, inclinations, and work style.
• I need to create a blog that is flexible enough to explore within 3D design and beyond. 

Defining our blog’s value for our target audience requires research, which will be explored further in the next phase. In iteration 1-1.5, you will just need to have a sense of direction on what your target audience will be as a starting point for research. 

3. What value does it bring to others? Help 3D design beginners learn 3D through case studies of my experience in designing my 3D projects and building a system to track learning progress and ease self-sabotaging behaviors. 

4. Who will find your blog the most helpful? Anyone curious about learning 3D design, especially those who’ve felt hesitant to start, unsure of where to begin, and wanting to break free from a self-sabotaging mindset so they can confidently take full control of their learning progress. 

 Legend: [🔵 = correlated events], [🟢 = remain the same from previous phase], [🔴 = changed from previous Phase]

Why I want to blog:

I’ve found it helpful to organize the blog formats into distinct content categories to manage my increased responsibilities that come with the expansion of the blog’s scope in this adjustment phase. 

Through this system, the type of content I publish directly mirrors where I am in my development. This helps me

• anticipate the workload with clear deliverables, 
• calculate my estimated production time,
• create a more realistic publishing schedule, and 
• predict timeframes to learn. 

Refer to feasibility factors, publish frequency, appropriate workload allocation, learning curve, and blog type formatting.

Each category reflects not just a topic, but a stage of my learning journey, allowing the blog to grow in alignment with my personal progress.

 Legend: [🔵 = correlated events], [🟢 = remain the same from previous phase], [🔴 = changed from previous Phase]

Content Formats:

Conclusion

Assessing the feasibility of our visions and capturing them in a clear blog purpose ensures that we set realistic standards and expectations for moving forward.

This phase builds on the hard work of exploration from the previous stage, repurposing what we’ve discovered rather than discarding it.

Instead of feeling guilty about “choosing one path over another,” we reframe the process: We intentionally push other ideas into a future space for decision-making. This approach reduces decision paralysis, overplanning, and stagnation by turning uncertainty into a roadmap for later. 

Through this approach, we’re not cutting away all of the varied interests but rebundling them for use in the present while also deciding what to actualize right now and what to reserve for the future. 

We keep the excitement of our earlier brainstorming alive while introducing structure, direction, and a timeline that make our vision actionable today and adaptable tomorrow.

A strong blog purpose that bridges bold vision with grounded reality sets the stage for a content plan, turning that vision into intentional, planned actions that can be measured. 

This leads up to the next iteration of our blog’s purpose, “Iteration 2: Testing Feasibility with Outside Research – Assembling the Key Components to Create an Actionable Content Plan.”

Here, you’ll transform your blog vision into a finalized purpose and consolidate all your ideas, decisions, and insights into a structured content plan, making it actionable through measurable blueprints to track your progress as you build and manage your blog.

Kind Note: This series summarizes my insights gained from analyzing my own self-reflective notes, marketing expertise, and subjective experience. It serves as a critical launchpad to help you get started and a compass to redirect you back on track when needed. Use this series as part of your solution, all of it, or none at all. Feel free to go off script to follow your heart, which aligns with the self-led nature of defining a blog’s purpose.

You can take control of your own pace while navigating through this blog series and fast-forward to get a preview of the other blogs in this series to judge if this series truly works for you. 

Expand the links below to see where this journey leads next. 

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