Pedasi Panama
I am currently in River Pines California by the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
But I shared a featured image above from our trip to Pedasi Panama.
Like living on the Pacific Ocean for 3 months, you will experience some stormy blogging days too if you keep at it for a while.
I have gone through peaks and valleys as an 18 year blogging veteran.
At various stages, things moved really slowly. Sometimes I made big mistakes; I refused to own the errors…..growth stalled for months.
Other times, I followed the successful path but my script did not include a quicker version of success compared to most established bloggers.
At other times, I took my foot off of the pedal because I live rather simply and feel not the strong desire to *get* a bunch of anything through my blog.
Par for the course here.
Every blogger harbors all types of strong mental blocks to organic traffic and income usually manifest as deserving issues. Some harbor a visceral fear of criticism. Others fear the responsibility required to build a full-time blogging business.
Chipping away at these unconscious emotions – by exposing each – takes many years and a willingness to leave your comfort zone routinely. Hence, the super long time frames where you do the right work but traffic and income seem to be non-existent.
Why Bloggers Quit: One Common Reason
The amount of:
- time
- fear
- blogging practice
all bloggers experience feels too overwhelming.
Feeling f*cking blitzed with deep unconscious fears and frustrated as hell with how long it has been since beginning and how much blogging practice/work you put into the game…..bloggers quit at a dizzying rate.
I cannot sugarcoat it.
Blogging sucks in short stretches.
Why?
Who relishes feeling the terror of poverty?
Who enjoys a wicked critic publishing a humiliating review?
Who loves when a loyal fan turns into a raving lunatic at the drop of a blogging hat?
Perhaps feeling these emotions last for 5-10 seconds. But the intensity of each feeling seems almost intolerable.
Rather than wade into murky mind waters, most bloggers quit well before easing into these incredibly intense, awful feeling emotions.
Factor in the time element. Factor in the work element.
Perhaps you have blogged for 6 years.
Maybe you have not earned a penny after blogging for 6 years.
Maybe 3 people visited your blog today after blogging for 6 years.
Maybe you burst out in tears after experiencing these hellish scenarios after blogging for 6 years.
I mean, there is no way in Hades you expected to be struggling 6 freaking years into your blogging career.
Making matters worse, you had no idea these horrific feeling emotions seemed buried in your unconscious mind.
Yeah, you were Mr. Positive Blogger for 6 years as the shit show of your career unfolded and you pushed your guilt, rage and hopelessness way down into your unconscious mind.
But after devoting 6 years of your life to blogging, today, you see:
- zero income
- 3 visitors for the day
The feelings arising in the mind can feel too much to hug. Some just want to crawl into bed and never leave it. Others project intense rage. Perhaps you decide to punch a hole in the wall; or you come this close to doing it.
I am NOT advising you to smash through plaster.
But I am being fully transparent.
Bloggers commonly quit because the intensity of their unconscious fears, the length of time elapsing before success manifests and the sheer volume of blogging work required are way beyond your current expectations.
Do you feel this post?
Do my words elicit strong emotions in your mind?
Well if so…..I have been there so I relay the emotions seamlessly.
I have felt it so I can blog it.
How Do You Solve this Problem?
Quitting is a blogging problem in some cases.
Shifting your mindset solves the problem instantly in specific scenarios.
Other times, you are meant to quit, to do something else.
Keep these practical ideas in mind:
- take this post to heart; it is common so whatever emotions you experience now are normal
- follow guidance only from highly experienced bloggers to begin succeeding now
- engage in emotional hygiene; at the very least, meditate for 20-30 minutes daily to become aware of your conscious and unconscious fears
- stretch out timelines; doing the right blogging things with a relaxed, confident mindset still means blogging for 1000’s of hours spanning years before steady organic traffic and blogging income manifests
- surround yourself with pro bloggers to learn through osmosis; begin to think, feel and blog like a confident pro well before you go pro to ease through blogging obstacles
- fall in deeper love with creating content and out of love (aka remove the greed and desperation) with getting traffic and money
Think long and hard about the practical tips above.
Do you actually do this stuff?
I can offer successful blogging advice. But it is quite useless unless you practically apply the ideas even if it feels highly uncomfortable to do so.
For example, imagine if you have surrounded yourself with struggling, failing bloggers now who think, feel and act like struggling, failing bloggers. All of these bloggers complain. Every single one enables you to victimize yourself – and your blog – to Google, Facebook, your email list and cheap ass readers.
Shedding these relationships and replacing them with highly experienced pro bloggers may feel uncomfortable. Pros hold you accountable. Full-time bloggers guide you to take full responsibility for your blogging results. Now you need to begin facing, feeling and looking past fears fueling your victim mentality.
In a kind, loving and direct way, a pro blogger may gently guide you to explore the fears in your mind scaring you into not investing $20 USD per month on a domain and hosting. Looking at your mind honestly feels horrible to the ego. A full-time blogger points out lovingly but clearly that your 500 word posts covering 13 different niches will never drive consistent organic traffic and steady blogging income (Even though the struggling bloggers told you to keep working harder, to publish more posts and to cover more niches to boost income potential).Â
Rather than face these unpleasant feeling emotions and spend more time doing it, most bloggers run away from their minds, quit then simply tell the world:
18 years into my blogging career, I’m writing posts like this.
Who do you trust?
Who should be your guide?
The one who looked past the urge to quit without throwing in the towel?
Blogging is difficult at times.
But you have both paid and free resources here at Blogging From Paradise to access, use and benefit from consistently.
Blogging gets easier if you wade through these fears, practice consistently and put in the time.
Follow those who are where you want to be.
Let them guide you to look within so you can guide others to do the same.
