Blogging milestones, what are they?

Recently there have been a number of people posting about personal 'milestones' they've achieved with their blogs. Nothing wrong with that at all, or indeed the milestones they've chosen to celebrate, and I applaud them in reaching their own personal goals. In fact, I think it's good to have targets or things that make you feel you're being successful, these things give you the energy and drive to carry on. Let's face it, it's these little things or achievements that keep you going, that push you forward to continue blogging, to do better. We all need those successes. However, I have to be honest and say I don't get the whole 100,000 or 200,000 hits thing. Until very recently I thought 100,000 hits was a pretty average thing to have achieved with a blog. I'm told, reliably it seems, by many people that 100,000 hits for a wargaming blog is a big thing. A very big thing. I'm also told that for someone to do that primarily without talking much about Games Workshop and in particular 40k is even more impressive. That I've also hit this 'milestone' in under 5 months is also seen by some as a big thing. But not to me it's not!

I was told to make a big thing out of it, but to be honest with you it really doesn't 'feel' like that big a deal to me. I was told getting 150 followers was a big deal as well, and don't get me wrong I'm absolutely over the moon that 150+ people have felt that what I do is important or good enough to warrant me clogging up their blogger reading list, or potentially their email inbox. But seriously, I celebrate every new follower the same way, I'm just happy somebody likes my stuff enough to subscribe. However, for me my goals and milestones are genuinely more internal. I'm happy when I read my blogs and they're written the way I want, and my message is clear and communicated effectively. The other day I actually wrote a blog without a single spelling mistake and the grammar wasn't too bad either. To me that was a huge personal milestone, because I'm dyslexic, and I derived more joy from that than I did 100,000 hits. I measure my success on the comments people drop below articles, or by the interesting emails I receive feeding back to me on my blog in general, or specific articles. Am I unusual in this? I mean what do you guys set as your personal targets to keep you going? How do you motivate yourselves? I don't think there are any right or wrong ways, as long as you have some goals I guess, because I do feel they're important. How do you set yourself targets and what are they, and why?
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