Blogging offers you freedom from time and location.
But most bloggers quit before reaching their dreams.
I want to help you address common reasons for quitting to overcome these obstacles.
Blogging is simple. But blogging is uncomfortable at times.
Fears surface in the mind during your online journey.
Most bloggers quit when things feel overwhelming. A few ease through these feelings to keep blogging.
Be with these emotions. Feel them. Proceed.
Check out these common reasons for quitting a blog.
1: Money Chasing
Money chasers quit for this simple reason: money never shows up quickly so they lose their motivator and quit.
Money shows up after you spend a long time:
- practicing
- creating
- connecting
Blog for freedom. Blog for fun. Cultivate inner drivers for a limitless source of motivation.
2: Popularity Chasing
Fame seekers quit fast because fame never arrives quickly.
Famous bloggers work for a long time before becoming popular.
Love and accept yourself. Stop looking for approval. Being popular does not make you:
- happy
- love yourself
- accept yourself
Blog to have fun helping people. Stop blogging to get people to like you, to know you or to worship you.
Fame, popularity and fortune may come through blogging after you commit for a long time but at that point these weak worldly drivers will do little for you. The blogging work will be the reward; fame will not phase you because being known by many people doesn’t change the fact that you blog predominantly for the love of blogging. Also, if you’re famous…..so what? Being known by many people is valued in the insane world but means nothing other than people being aware of your presence. Why would you get excited about that or really want it?
3: No Smart Strategy
Do you remember the days of copy-pasting your latest blog post to 300 Facebook Groups?
I do.
I was one of the morons who tried this unintelligent approach to marketing my blog. Newsflash; it does not work.
Bloggers often quit because they do not follow a smart blogging strategy. After failing for a bit they quit.
Follow professional bloggers. Learn from pros what works. More importantly, let pros teach you what does not work.
Follow a proven blogging strategy for a long time. Succeed.
4: Lone Wolf Syndrome
Bloggers who go solo usually quit because connected bloggers dominate their niches.
Get connected. Engage in genuine blogger outreach. Keep blogging with the support of your blogger friend network.
A team works better than your singular efforts. Visionary entrepreneurs build companies for this reason.
Build your blogger network. Keep blogging through the support of your blogging buddies.
5: Publish Posts on Too Many Topics
The world loves specialists.
The world does not love generalists.
Some multi-niche bloggers experience modest success but no human being has figured out how to do 2 things better than humans who give all of their professional attention and energy to doing 1 thing. Where your attention and energy goes, grows.
6: Opportunity Allergies
Bloggers quit for being allergic to opportunities.
For example, someone may ask to interview you. But you turn down their offer for some fear in your mind, masked by an ego excuse. Even though increased exposure, traffic and potential profits would flow through the podcast interview you reject this success because you mind developed an opportunity allergy.
Seize and use opportunities to help people daily. Publish a blog post. Publish genuine comments on 5 blogs. Agree to an interview request. Avoid quitting by seizing and using opportunities to succeed.
7: Changing Strategies
Changing blogging strategies promotes failure and quitting because no tactic has a chance to bear fruit if you keep digging up its seeds.
Imagine planting a seed for an apple tree today. But next week you impatiently dig up the seed because the seed did not grow into a tree in one week. Bloggers who change strategies every few days or every few weeks are just like someone digs up apple seeds every few days or every few weeks.
Follow one strategy consistently.
Be patient. Good things take time and generous service. Success finds bloggers who do one thing well.
8: Forget to Keep it Simple
Blogging is simple.
Create helpful content that solves a core reader problem. Bond with bloggers in your niche by helping them. Monetize through multiple income streams. This is blogging.
But most bloggers struggle, fail and quit by adding complex, difficult strategies to the simplicity of blogging. Complex strategies lead to blogging burnout. Burned out bloggers quit.
Keep blogging simple. Solve reader problems. Build relationships with fellow bloggers. Monetize through multiple income streams.
9: No Mind Training
People are carefully, deliberately conditioned by the world NOT to train their mind because the world depends on:
- a victim mentality
- weak minds
- fear
to operate smoothly. If you doubt this concept, turn on the news. Your welcome.
Bloggers usually quit due to their weak-mindedness. Weak-minded bloggers quit the moment discomfort arises in their mind. Fear scares people into quitting any venture quickly.
Strong-minded bloggers exit their comfort zone frequently to generously create, connect and monetize for a long time…..no matter what.
Train your mind. Meditate. Follow A Course in Miracles. Read it. Apply the lessons. Do yoga. Pray from an intent of love and trust. Do what works for you. Become strong-minded. Persist until you succeed.
10: General Delusion
Bloggers quit because in their delusion they believe blogging to be easy.
Most believe money flows in after publishing a few blog posts.
But reality slaps these individuals upside the blogging head. Blogging involves developing skills through patient practice.
Blogging is simple but feels highly uncomfortable sometimes. Few humans feel comfortable with creating content and building connections spanning years of their lives. Hug the discomfort. Be realistic. Accept the long term nature of blogging.
Conclusion
Correct your errors.
Keep blogging.
Freedom awaits bloggers who see the journey through.
Ryan Biddulph is the owner and creator of Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.