Saigon, Vietnam
When you blog for 15 years you make discoveries in year 15 that seem obvious in year 1.
However, you and I carry this emotion called “fear” in our conscious and unconscious minds.
Specific life events trigger fear. Once triggered, you have the opportunity to face, feel and release fears to see more clearly.
Seeing more clearly offers you those:
“Holy shit! I cannot believe that I just discovered that now!”
type moments.
I made once such discovery recently.
Blogging From Paradise Will Never Be Popular Because the World Wants the Easy and Comfortable *Outside Solution* Not the Uncomfortable But *Freeing Inner Truth In Your Mind*
Right now, your experience is your mindset.
The world acts out your conscious and unconscious beliefs.
Yes; your mind is unlimited power. It really is that powerful.
Even before making the discovery that Blogging From Paradise will not be popular because I stress mindset while the world wants popular solutions outside of the mind, I’ve been blogging about mindset and blogging since 2014. Who wants to hear that you will make money blogging after facing, feeling and releasing fear manifest as guilt, grief or shame? Not many, I assure you.
THE MONEY HAS TO BE IN THE LIST, RIGHT?!?!?!?!
Screw mindset, the world says. Better look to an email list, or long-form content, or blogger outreach AS THE SOLE SOURCE OF YOUR BLOGGING INCOME.
Proof of How the World Works
Do you need proof of how the world works?
Google “blog traffic”.
Scroll through the results.
No post on page 1 advises to face fears in your mind, feel these fears, let go these fears then follow practical guidance as far as publishing long form content, guest blogging and engaging in blogger outreach.
Nope.
Most posts appearing on page 1 include big numbers in the title because using big numbers in titles is a popular strategy to manipulate fearful bloggers into:
- clicking on posts
- thinking that success is not in their mind but only in the strategy
- largely struggling, failing and quitting because fearful bloggers rarely look within at the source of their failure – their mind – and almost always look outside of their minds, to big claims, specific strategies and practical techniques as saviors, riding in like a White Blogging Night, boosting their traffic and blogging profits to dizzying levels
First off, guilty as charged. I’ve done this too, some of the time.
But I have focused heavily on changing your mindset first, then diving into following practical blogging tips with an abundant mindset.
Almost all posts on page 1 of Google never discuss mindset and virtually none talk about changing your mindset first before following practical tips because the world wants popular and comfortable not unpopular, uncomfortable and freeing. This is one clear reason why 81% of bloggers never make more than $100 as of a while back. If blogging success were following page 1 advice on Google than 81% of bloggers would make $1,000,000 or more, using simple logic. Millions of bloggers would find it on Google, use it and succeed. But since this is not what’s happening in reality we know that mindset, not strategy, must be the answer.
Do you honestly believe that the post you’re reading now will rank #1 on Google for any keyword, ever?
Of course not; Google wants to make money and gain exposure by giving bloggers practical strategies for worldly blogging success which they then do not experience because most have shitty, fear-based mindsets. Google has every right to do that. I applaud Google for being brilliant at what it does.
But at Blogging From Paradise, we tell you the truth, not what most people want to hear.
Popularity-seeking masses have no interest in that. Hence, only a few Blogging From Paradise posts rank on Google.
I am cool with that because Google is not God. God is God and Google is one website that the blogging world worships as if it were a god but not me. I understand that human beings who want to hear a more genuine representation of how the mind influences blogging – and life – will always provide Blogging From Paradise with a stable, prospering community.
You see, I don’t blog with a heavy undercurrent of:
- fear
- greed
- lack
- scarcity
so my blog post titles will not appear on page 1 of Google.
I know that if I tried to tell you that there were 27 easy ways to get traffic (truth: traffic is never easy….just ask any blogger who’s done this for a long time) and that there were 5 easy steps to stardom (truth: stardom is never easy to attain….just ask any star), or that it takes 4 steps to get 2 million readers (truth: bloggers take more than 4 steps to get 2 million readers), I would not feel clear about it. Google rewards each of those titles but each title is not 100% clear and truthful. However, Google rewards popularity and profits, not truthfulness, liberation and the greatest worldly success for all. Don’t kill the messenger; just nod, smile and tell yourself that yep….this guy is telling the truth.
I am not condemning these bloggers who rank on page 1 because I appreciate their success, hustle and willingness to generously share their advice with the world.
I am saying that some words being used and claims made are not coming from truth, authenticity, love and empowerment but fear, greed, desperation and manipulation, all popular drivers in a world that rewards fear and makes the truth very, very unpopular, save for a select few who wish to wake their sleeping minds.
There are no 27 easy ways to drive blog traffic; it’s just not true. But using that title is a popular way to disinform greedy, desperate bloggers to click on the link because the popular frame of mind wants something for nothing. Google, being a business designed on making money, rewards the disinformation to keep making money. It’s not right or wrong. It just is.
If stardom were easy, 8 billion human beings would be stars because all of us have sought the easy way at one time or another. But Google rewards this post because it is popular with scared, lazy minds, who are deceived and continue the cycle of blogging struggles, failure and quitting, all because these minds look to easy stardom on page 1 versus within, to find their intimately personal, conscious and unconscious fears, as the source of their struggles.
I read the 2 million readers steps: there are a good 4-5 sub-steps beneath each step, so a true title would accurately lay out the in-depth, thorough process required to actually get 2 million readers. 10 steps? 15 steps? Sounds more accurate to a 15 year blogger who forgot more than most bloggers will ever know. 2 million readers is not small feat! If ya could do it in 4 steps, you, me, and the 2 cats I’m house sitting for would have 2 million readers.
I know all of these bloggers and believe that they are phenomenal, skilled and do an excellent job teaching bloggers how to succeed.
But…..
…..the titles that Google rewards bloggers for simply appeal to the popular masses and do not accurately portray the:
- mindset work
- practical steps
- blood, sweat and tears
- technical strategies
required to actually fulfill the promise made in the titles.
The World Rewards Sound Bytes Not the Real Deal
Page 1 of Google is largely sound bytes.
The world rewards sound bytes.
The real deal is largely avoided on page 1 of Google because when someone honestly advises that blogging success comes from your mind, first, not from some specific strategy, then the world and its claims crumble quite quickly.
Imagine if someone comes along and says that success is in your mind not in your email list. He advises that you build an email list AFTER DOING MINDSET WORK but that the list is not the answer because your mind is the answer.
That unpopular truth does not sit well with popularity-seeking Google and the popular blogging masses who largely follow each other without thinking much.
Does Google or the world really want to give massive exposure to an island hopping, pro blogger who says that the answer is first, in your mind, then in following practical tips? Especially when Google and the world says that the ANSWER IS IN THE PRACTICAL TIPS, NOT YOUR MIND?
Do you guys see what I’m getting at, here?
How Does This Discovery Help You
You will succeed far more quickly and have more fun blogging by exploring your mind before following practical strategies.
I will keep doing that here. Actually, I will do it more than ever.
Heck yeah I’ll share practical blogging tips just like those shared on page 1 blog posts. But “mindset first, mindset first, mindset first”, will keep chirping in your mind before you apply any practical tip.
Also, we all know that we will not be a popular tribe just about ready to go viral; when you retweet a blog post, don’t expect to get 50 retweets when you piss in some popular blogger’s Cheerios with Blogging From Paradise blog content.
However, we will be truthful with each other by looking within, healing our minds, loving the blogging ride, having fun with the process and yes, organically boosting our collective blog traffic and profits over the long haul.
Square deal?
I think so.
