Bath England
Imagine if you wanted to go for a 10 mile run.
Energy surges through your being.
Sneakers on? Check. Water bottle in tow, you grab a banana to get your potassium fix.
Mojo ready, you sprint out of your front door.
In the next breath you handcuff yourself to the front door and toss the keys aside.
But the desire to run sits firmly in your mind.
Yet you handcuffed yourself to the front door.
So you charge forward to the tune of lacerating your wrists. You try to run again. No dice. The handcuffs make it impossible to move. Your hopes for the long run seem genuine enough. Your intentions seem strong enough. But you cannot break free of the cuffs.
Being in agony, brought to tears, you quit trying.
Now you sit handcuffed to the door.
Nothing happens.
You are stuck.
Now you need to wait for someone to walk by the house. What happens when the first person crosses your lawn? You scream at them: “PLEASE GET MY KEYS I AM STUCK AND IN PAIN HERE!!!!”
The person perceives your predicament – and panic – to formulate one opinion. You are absolutely nuts in their mind, at least. Imagine someone handcuffing themselves to the front door. Picture the same loon assuming that this was the best strategy for getting in a 10 mile run.
The deer in the headlights look dancing around in their eyes, this scared person sprints from your property.
Do you blame them?
Each successive pedestrian never gets close to your property. Your desperate shrieks combined with self-handcuffing tells them to stay away.
You’re doing it to yourself.
People out there can see it.
But you cannot see it because the jailing thought patterns are completely unconscious, pushed outside of your awareness.
Blogging Obstacles
Slamming into blogging obstacles sucks.
What’s worse?
Almost no blogger understands; you are doing it to yourself but on an unconscious level.
Imagine a blogger who wants to go pro. Compare that with running for 100 miles.
The same blogger unconsciously fears losing $150 USD for the year so they decide to use a free blogging platform. Compare that with slapping on handcuffs and tossing away the key.
The same blogger desperately tries to force income through a free platform blog; almost all never earn a penny. Compare that to screaming for help from experienced bloggers who know to stay away because no one goes pro blogging on free platforms.
Pushing away the people who can actually offer you help makes the situation even more frustrating.
You Put on the Handcuffs Unconsciously
Let’s look closely at this scenario.
Pros guide bloggers to invest in their domain and hosting to:
- own the blog
- own the content
- exercise full creative control
- set the rules
- fully customize the blog and brand
But you are so unconsciously terrified to lose 150 bucks over 12 months that you blog on a free platform.
After failing miserably you try to get a pro to help you go full-time with your free platform blog but all pros never jump into the blogging insane asylum by giving in to insane demands. No one thrives on free platforms.
Eventually YOU need to:
- dig into the unconscious
- face, feel and release the terror of investing 150 bucks over 12 months
- invest in your domain and hosting
- begin blogging successfully
by remembering your shovel on the porch, fishing for the key and unlocking the handcuffs.
You need to conquer the self-imposed obstacle primarily because you did it to yourself.
If anything, one pedestrian may point out the shovel-fishing idea while passing by. But you need to free yourself because you bound yourself.
Now you are free to run that impressive distance. But being new, you divide the distance into 3 mile increments for the first 5 sessions to ease into running. Perhaps you run for 5 miles after this trial period.
You will reach the goal. But it is a process. No one skips through it seamlessly. Obstacles will arise. Passer by will help if you put in an honest effort while asking for help.
The Tricky Part
The limiting beliefs spring directly from the unconscious in most cases.
Exposing these fears seems difficult at first because the ego does everything possible to push these fears deeper, well outside of your awareness.
Since the fear seems unconscious you may do utterly unreasonable things.
For example, the blogger who fears losing 150 bucks over 12 months may have a $30,000 USD credit line on their credit card. Never mind how the same blogger has $50,000 USD in savings. Why would someone with access to $80,000 USD feel terrified to lose 150 bucks over one year? Fear makes zero sense because it is an illusion but unconscious, robotic fears are completely insane.
This is why easing into these fears is critical. You will absolutely assail yourself with ridiculous, self-imposed handcuffs that are pure nonsense until you nudge into these fears by doing uncomfortable stuff frequently.
Conclusion
Think about this analogy.
Journey into your mind.
Watch your thought patterns.
Do uncomfortable stuff to expose the unconscious mind; worry not….these pre-programmed fears will arise as you leave your blogging comfort zone.
Break your unconscious handcuffs.
Free yourself to succeed.
