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Building your future is not a day or two's job. You will have to work hard throughout your education and at work to build a wealthy and sound future. There is a lot of advice on how you can build your future and become successful, but below we are going to discuss some of the ways that are a sure-shot way of building your future and becoming successful.
 

1. Get a Good Education: This is one of the most important steps in building your future and becoming successful. Now, when discussing education, I am not saying to go to Harward or some other big university and get your certificates. I am saying to learn whatever comes your way. For example, if you are in school, then learn your subjects and work hard to grasp and understand the subjects that you have and try to excel in all those subjects.
   
   On the other hand, if you don't go to school, and if you are not able to afford to go and you have to work as a mechanic or some other skilled labor, then try to learn from the experts that you have. I still remember, when I was working in a Kitchen in a hotel, I used to stay late to learn new tips and tricks being used in hotels to make food more delicious, it helped to understand what was required. I was able to climb up the ladder in a shorter duration of time.
   
   So, it doesn't matter if you are getting your education from a school, college, or some professional expert, you should just try to gain as much knowledge as possible.
    
2. Take an internship: This is again an extension of the above point and focuses on getting hands-on experience on the work using mentorship by joining a company or organization in your desired field. For example, if you are undergoing graduation in computer science and you aim to become a developer, then try to get an internship in your field. This is because hands-on knowledge and practical code development help in becoming more sound in your domain.
   
   This is applicable to all the fields. Let's say that you are in the hotel industry and you have completed a Hotel Management Course, and now you want to become a Chef. To reach that capability, you will first have to understand all the things at the grassroots level and this can be done by joining a hotel as an intern and getting mentorship from experts or professionals in that hotel. This is one of the important things because it will add to your overall experience and your hands-on knowledge will help you get a higher-paying job.
    
3. Move up the ladder: Make a list of goals that will help you grow and work towards achieving them. For example, if you are working towards becoming a Senior Developer or a Chief Editor in a new company, try to break your aim into achievable goals. Let's say to become a Chief Editor, you should be able to write and edit articles without any mistakes and the structure and knowledge of the format of written articles should be easily understandable by you.
   
   Think outside the box, and come up with new ideas for your organization through innovative thinking. Taking more responsibility can help you to learn new skills that will enhance your career. This will take you out of your comfort zone but once you take on new responsibility, you will gain more confidence towards leaping your career growth.
   
   Do a SWOT analysis of yourself and discuss it with your mentors or seniors about what are your weaknesses and how can you overcome them. Plus try to understand how to leverage your strengths in your overall career growth.
    
4. Consider changing your domain: This is especially easy if you are trying to move laterally within your organization or outside your organization. This is because sometimes we may not feel that we are in the correct domain and we would be stressed out. Try to change your domain if you don't think that it is working. For example, I used to work in a Hotel as a chef but after a while, I was not enjoying doing that and I garnered a passion for writing. Therefore I took the leap of faith and jumped into a content writing role in another company.
   
   This move helped me a lot because I was stress-free and had a more flexible routine. I was now happy and was working on my terms. Although I had to learn a lot and even had to start with a lower salary, it was worth taking the leap and working towards my dreams. Similarly, I have heard many people who have left their job as HR Executives and become a full-time developers without having any prior formal education in coding. This is something you should also consider doing because you get only one life and it is never good to do something that is not fun or that simply doesn't seem to have any future.
    
5. Try to gain financial stability: One of the major goals and mile stones of any future building and becoming successful is to gain financial stability. Now by financial stability, I mean to have an emergency fund and also have a budget that will let you enjoy your life and fulfill your aspirations as well.
   
   To do this, try to follow below steps:
   a) Emergency Fund Account: Try to save some amount every month in this account. This can be as low as 1 cent and can be as huge as possible, but you will have to decide a practical number for yourself. See how much you can save every month in this account. This should be maintained every single month when you receive your salary and should never be touched. It should only be used in big financial emergencies and for nothing else.
   
   b) Travel Fund Account: This account is another very important bank account that you will have. This is because as we are working from different places, usually every single person leaves their home town and travel becomes one of the biggest expenses that anyone haves while going to home or for some marriage. Fight and Train tickets have become too expensive. Therefore, you should have a travel account where you every month save some money, so that when you have some travel plans, at that time you should not have empty pockets and even if the fund is not enough, still you will be able to at least get some self-discount.
   
   c) Get health insurance: This is one of the most important parts of financial stability because health issues come suddenly and are difficult to cope with. You should have a good health insurance. Check if your employer has insured you or get health insurance yourself because medical expenses have become too expensive for any normal human being on this planet. Although some countries help their citizens in difficult times for most of us, we will have to get a good cover because I have seen huge hospital expenses that cannot be borne by normal people on cash.
   
   d) Get term insurance: This is also one of the important aspects of building your future. This is because term insurance takes care of the people that you care about when you die. Therefore, having term insurance is a must. There was a case where a candidate had come for an interview and I got to know that his father died when he was 2 years old, and I asked how he completed his education, etc, and he told me that there was a term insurance that his dad had taken because of which he was able to complete his education and his mom also didn't have to work. If his dad would have taken the term insurance, then it would have become a trouble for them all. Therefore, it is always a good idea to get good-term insurance, especially if it also covers critical illness.
    
6. Reduce debt: This is again an important point to understand. When we don't have money at that time we need it the most and usually most of us go for credit cards or personal loans. This is wrong to do, and that is because debt is something that takes out money from your pocket in the longer term, and that too sometimes doubles the interest. Therefore, try to pay off any debt that you have to build yourself a secure and successful future.
   
   Although all the loans cannot be avoided, for example, loans taken for a car or to buy a house, those loans are not so bad because these are secure loans. But loans like personal loans and credit cards are really bad for your financial health and well-being.
    
7. Exercise & Make time for your family: Exercising daily and taking out time for your family and friends is one of the important things to do. This is because these two things help you strengthen your relations and also make you stress-free which has a positive impact on your overall health and well-being. Discuss your work hours and expectations with your boss so that you can set some boundaries to prevent work from leeching away at family time.
   
   Spend time with your spouse and children even if it means getting everyone together in the morning to exercise or stretch for some time before having breakfast and going to work. Taking family vacations is another way of creating some space for yourself and your family.
    
8. Take care of your mental health: When your mental health is good, you make good decisions about all aspects of your life, and this helps in you feeling better about your life which again helps in building a better future for yourself. Try regur sleep schedule and choose calming activities before bed. Steer away from alcohol and drugs and keep your mind sharp.

Conclusion;
Building you future and becoming successful is not easy to do but it is achievable and once you have followed all the above steps, you should be able to build a better future for yourself.
 

Although it is never recommended to create blogs on a free blogging website, you can still manage to create your blogs for free, and that too on a trusted website, that will help you at least start your career in blogging.

First, understand why we don't encourage creating blogs on free hosting sites, and there are several issues with free blogging websites. For example;

1. You may not be able to use AdSense or some other way of monetizing your blog if you are using free web or blog hosting.
2. Free blogging websites may shut down their business and hence you may lose your content.
3. If something happens or if your free blogging site was hacked, your personal information will also be with the hackers.
4. You may be limited to how many users can you have or how much traffic you can have on your blog.
5. Free blogging websites are usually for personal use.

Having listed all the above problems, I still want you to start your blogging journey with less or no money so that you can make a living writing blogs and creating articles or simply following your passion.

There are two main ways to start blogging;

1. Using Blogging Websites like thewiki Network: Websites like thewiki Network allow users to create blogs and personal profiles. You can post your blogs and work to create your brand, and because this network is a trusted brand hence you don't have to fear it getting closed anytime soon.
   
   New bloggers can set up their profiles and can also use them as a repository for their work, which they can share along with their resumes. This helps in showcasing your abilities to potential employers whenever they try to search for you.
   
   One of the best ways to monetize your profile on thewiki Network is by allowing Guest Posts.
   
   Consider you have good reach globally because you have been using thewiki Network for some time now. Your articles get indexed on Google and other Search Engines easily, because of which brands would like to connect with you to post their articles or at least mention their products and services. For doing so, you can be paid a hefty amount.
   
   You can also monetize your profile by advertising for big brands that may connect with you and would like to place their ads on your profile. This is a great way to monetize your profile and create a brand for yourself as well.
   
   One of the reasons that I recommend it for freshers is because freshers can post several blogs without paying anything, which helps them in getting good practice on their writing skills and they also get good exposure initially because thewiki Network is also Google News Approved, but ensure that you are adding content that is not plagiarized and is long at least 1000 words and above. This will get your blog or article an instant hit whenever you will post it.
   
   This is not possible on other blogging websites like Medium etc, where people are limited if they are not premium users and hence this also limits the number of articles one can post, and hence the practice remains at the backend always.
   
   You can even use thewiki Network to check how good your article is even before posting it on your own website. This is because any article that you post on thewiki Network gets indexed by Google and other Search Engines in a few minutes, therefore whenever you add a new article, you can see its potential and also check if it is good enough and how it may perform in the future.
    
2. Use Blogger Dot Com: Blogger Dot Come is another website that you can use to create your own blogs for free and that too without any coding knowledge.
   
   You can simply sign up with Blogger and set up your blog on their subdomains. For example, yourname.blogger.com
   
   This ensures that you have an idea of how you use your own websites. Having said that there is one good news for blogger users, and that they can even use Google Adsense for monetizing their blogs, which might not be possible on other websites.
   
   Also, because it is a product of Google itself, therefore you can even have full confidence that this website will not get shut down any time soon. One more thing, you will get good hands-on ideas about how to use websites and can even go deep into understanding how to install themes and add-ons to make your website more professional looking.
   
   I still remember using Blogger as my first blogging website, because at that time I was not having good finances, and blogging was one of the few things that I started to do. I started a travel blog and then added recipes on the same. But obviously that I used to do it as my hobby and not as a job-seeking opportunity. Hence it never grew after a certain point when I started working more formal jobs.

These two methods are the best ones that I can suggest today, because, at the end of the day, you also need to have all your content safe in one place, and storing it on your computer never does anything good. Any article you write should be on a blogging website because there it will start getting traffic and this is how people from across different territories and timespans connect with each other.

Consider this like your bank account. If you are earning money, you should have it in your bank account or else money will only lose its value on a daily basis, and when it is in your account in that case it will keep on earning interest.

Similarly, when you post your articles on blog websites or on the above-mentioned websites, you keep on generating traffic on your articles and hence increasing your ability to make a fortune someday.

Also, if you have a profile and all your articles in one place, you have something to show your potential clients or companies that hire. I have seen people not having their articles on their blogging websites because of which they have to share PDF files and Word files with their potential clients.

This creates clutter in the email and also makes it difficult for people to navigate through your articles, and if they are using their mobile phones, in that case, most of them would prefer your articles in an online format.

On the other hand, if you have all your blogs in an online format, then it becomes easier for clients to navigate through your repository and the work that you have done. It also looks more professional to see a published article rather than sharing PDF files. Having said that a published article is also more responsive to mobile screens, making it easier for people to view your articles.

Conclusion;
It is easy to set up your blogs online and that too for free, just ensure that you use the above two mentioned websites, and if you want to rank faster on Search Engines, then you can surely use thewiki Network.

Although Blogger is also good, you will see results much faster if you use thewiki Network and can also create your own profile and can add articles much faster by just registering on it. Moreover, if you want a more website-like interface so that you are able to experience subdomains, then you can go for Blogger.

Just take this step and register for the services and start hitting your keyboard to start writing, and you will soon see the results.

thewiki Network is also like a small writers community where you can ask questions and grow with the community by asking questions and referring to materials and other professional bloggers, which will ultimately help you grow big.