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“Do not follow where the path leads, Rather go where there is no path, and leave a trail.”<\/strong> – David Perkins<\/p>\n

I’ve not been able to get this quote out of my head since hearing it over the weekend. I shared it last night on Twitter and half a dozen people replied quickly that it’d impacted them quite a lot so I thought I’d share it again here on ProBlogger.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot that could be said about it and how it applies to blogging successfully – but I think I’ll just let it sit with you and see what it says to you).<\/p>\n

update<\/b> Mark from Creativitity<\/a> asks – “Name 10 blogs that leave trails. They don\u2019t have to even be successful. They just have to be taking risks.”<\/p>\n

I think that’d be a great exercise. What blogs do you think are living out the quote?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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