Troon Scotland
The troubled spirit trudged across the deck like a bedeviled Balinese Bigfoot.
The homeowner laid in bed a few feet away, wondering what in God’s name was making these loud, haunting sounds at 2 AM in the morning.
When we house sat for 6 months at a luxury, football field sized villa in a sleepy Balinese village Kelli and I heard the recount about the wandering spirit who regularly crossed the property.
Turns out, the villa lands were farmlands in Jimbaran before the homeowner broke ground. The human incarnation of the farmer routinely crossed this land to go from property to property whilst inhabiting his mortal coil, and in another dimension, his spirit continued passing through the villa property.
Fear invited the spirit in to haunt the homeowner.
In the spirit of love, one of the Balinese staff made a ceremonial offering to the wandering, wayward spirit.
The homeowner never heard the foot steps again.
Before this post degrades into a funny “Stranger Things” reference I wanted to show you how facing, feeling and releasing your fears can help you get on with what you have fun doing.
If you haven’t started a blog some fear prevents you from starting the blog. Ditto for if you can’t seem to persist with blogging.
That heavy footed spirit waits in the shadows, waiting for you to embrace it and release it with love so you can dive into your blogging career and persist through the invariable ups and downs you will face.
1: Follow Your Fun
What can you gab about all day long? Blog about it.
Follow your fun to glide through your fears.
Go within. Find your blogging fun.
Blogging your love goads you to knife through fears. Knifing through fears impels you to start blogging. Edging through fears influences you to keep blogging through thick and thin.
Build a list of 5-10 topics that you feel passionate about. Whittle the list down to 1-3 topics. Choose one that feels the most fun to you to explore.
From there, search for a demand. Scan Google, Quora, Reddit and Answer the Public to ensure some reader need for the topic.
Proceed to blog if you see that need.
2: Face Your Fears….Embrace Your Fears….Release Your Fears
Fear appears to stop you from starting a blog and keeping it going.
Fears like:
- I can’t afford to buy a domain and hosting
- It’ll be a waste of time
- I’m too busy
- I’m too lazy to blog consistently
grind your blog to a halt unless you forgive each fear in your mind.
Face your blogging fears. Embrace the fears. Feel the fears. Forgive the fears.
Letting go fear also releases the urge to quit blogging.
Face, feel and release these devilish little energies. Proceed to blog.
Fear appears to prevent bloggers from writing and publishing their first post. Fear also seems to prevent bloggers from persisting.
However, edging into each fear dissolves the imagined sticking points. Losing the fear of beginning to blog allows you to begin to blog. Forgiving the fear of persisting lets you persist.
Everything is emotional book keeping, really.
3: Invest in Premium Hosting
Pay for premium hosting to dive into the blogging game from the right space.
Drop $10 to $30 a month to get:
- reliable hosting
- excellent customer service
- peace of mind
If you feel good about your blog you will keep blogging.
If you feel bad about your blog you will quit blogging.
Blogging on free platforms usually makes bloggers feel bad about their blog because free platform blogs give off a less than credible, unprofessional vibe. Unconsciously, most free platform bloggers feel “less than” based on their unprofessional presentation.
Put it this way: if your fear losing 10 smackers a month on a venture do you honestly feel clear, confident and bold about that venture?
Invest in your domain and hosting. Take blogging seriously. Keep at it because you feel good about it.
4: Follow 1-3 Experienced Bloggers
Blogging big dawgs teach you how to succeed.
Follow pros to confidently work a proven blogging system which yields success.
Learn from the pros. Persist.
These guys share tips, techniques and strategies that fuel your blogging success.
Listen to successful bloggers to become confident enough to see the blogging journey through.
Pay close attention to professional bloggers. Pros blogged for a long time before going pro.
Note their ways. Be hyper aware of professional advice. Follow their lead. Position yourself to blog until you go pro.
Bloggers usually quit by winging it or by attempting to field advice from 10 to 20 or more bloggers. Being ignorant and/or overwhelmed, most quit.
Some bloggers ask for advice on Quora and Reddit. 30 replies later….who do you trust?
Trash all that noise.
Pick 1-3 pro bloggers.
Follow their blogs closely.
Avoid confusing blogging crosscurrents.
Zero in on 1-3 blogging sources to follow a system clearly and confidently from day #1 of your blogging career.
5: Write 500 Words Daily (for Practice)
Write.
Writing 500 words daily – for practice – helps you:
- uncover your writing voiceÂ
- become prolific
- keep blogging
Open a Word document. Go nuts. Write your rear end off to become a skilled, confident, clear blogger. Being a diligent writer gives you clarity enough to keep blogging.
Bloggers tend to struggle the moment someone picks apart their writing, sprinting into a blogging cave, nudging back into their blogging shell. But if you practice writing you get clear and confident enough to blog persistently despite any blogging criticism flowing your way.
Write, write then write some more. Blog persistently by being a skilled, clear, confident writer.
6: Meditate Daily
Meditating:
- expands your awareness
- gives you clarity of thought
- reveals mental blocks – the matrix of thoughts and feelings you cling to which appear to hold you back – so you can face, embrace and release these blocks
Meditating daily reveals fears to forgive to become a persistent blogger. Fear holds you back. Becoming aware of fear through meditating reveals the fears which hold you back. Sitting patiently with fear to feel and forgive it goads you to start blogging and to stick with it for the long haul.
Start with 5 minutes a day. Â Add a few minutes weekly.
7: Invest in Premium Products and Services to Shorten Your Learning Curve
Invest in:
Learn from pros via their premium teaching.
Become confident by investing money in your blogging tuition.
Online courses, eBooks and coaching offer the best advice from top bloggers.
Capitalize on their experience to dive into blogging and to persist through thick and thin.
Conclusion
Follow these tips to begin blogging and to keep blogging.
Cultivate blogging patience and persistence to accelerate your success.
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