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(Updated 6/5/2021)
I Googled my blog name a while back.
Neil Patel and his gracious feature of me – and Blogging From Paradise – popped up for a specific keyword.
He noted after mentioning my blog how blogging is a slow, steady journey.
Successful blogging occurs in drips, not torrents.
Did I start blogging yesterday? Nope. Last week? Nope. Last year? Nope.
I have blogged for 13 years. Truth be told, even though I began traveling 3 years into my blogging career, things did not genuinely click – like REALLY click – until a few years ago. Sure I struggled for years, but even if I did smart things with a generous, detached energy, crafting this life of travel and pro blogging would still take 2-4 years.
Nobody short cuts their way to a dream life through blogging.
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Sweetness comes after the slow, steady blogging journey.
If you are a new blogger you likely feel excitement, dread, hope, panic and an emotional cocktail of delight, doubt and dizziness that may goad you to quit before you begin.
Take a deep breath, guys.
Relax.
This blogging gig is incredibly worth the fun, freedom and fulfillment you will experience along the way.
Keep these 4 things in mind to level out, to develop a sense of peace and calm, and to begin blogging from a generous, largely detached, energy.
1: Embody a Slow and Steady Approach
Like Neil said; blogging is a slow steady process.
New bloggers need to know that you cannot speed up this process. Trying to speed things up guarantees your struggle and failure.
Create a helpful post. Connect with top bloggers via genuine blog comments and by promoting these pros on your blog and through your social media.
Repeat the connecting thingee 5-7 days weekly for 3 months, then 6 months, then, 2 years.
Create 1-3 blog posts weekly for the next 3 months, then 6 months, then 2 years.
Be patient. Don’t panic.
Slow and steady wins the race.
All successful bloggers you see – like Neil Patel – patiently, persistently and generously created and connected for years, never panicking and bailing on the blogging fundamentals.
2: Follow Professional Advice
I spoke to a new blogger recently.
He nodded as I offered professional advice from a 13 year veteran.
He is learning how following pro advice persistently – watching my videos, reading my posts and chatting with me – helps keep him on the blogging straight and narrow.
Most new bloggers rarely seek out pro advice and follow their own advice. Bad idea. Pros have blogging experience. New bloggers have little to no blogging experience.
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Follow 2-3 blogging tips pros. Read their blogs daily. Watch their videos. Invest money in their eBooks, courses and coaching.
Pros show you the way, inspire you and support you on a sometimes confusing, doubt-filled journey. Pro bloggers also cut your learning curve by years, providing you with a sense of relief and knowing that you are on the right path.
Follow top pros like James McAllister. Pay close attention to his post:
Branding Success Comes from Sticking to the Basics
Beginner bloggers; stick to the basics. Lay a rock solid foundation for your blogging campaign. Release urges to:
- take shortcuts
- seek overnight success
- get rich quickly
because each fear leads to an impossibility.
Follow the fundamentals by paying close attention to seasoned, professional bloggers. Pros keep you on the blogging straight and narrow.
3: Check in to Reality
Reality check time, guys.
As a newbie blogger, you may have published 10-20 valuable, quality posts. Maybe you genuinely commented on 50-100 blogs.
You think you are a seasoned vet. But you are at the blogging baby stage of your blogging journey compared to established pros.
You are not an experienced blogger. Good things take time.
Alonzo Pichardo stresses this regularly. His eye-popping success grew over 13 years of generous, patient, persistent service.
New bloggers often expect to generate a full time income after a year, while doing next to nothing. Not gonna happen. New bloggers often expect to generate a full time income after a year, after doing smart stuff, persistently, patiently and generously. Usually, ain’t gonna happen guys.
Don’t expect anything. Focus on service, not getting. Develop the proper mindset for a newbie blogger.
Success will be yours but it will take time……and service.
Observe doctors or lawyers. Each thrives after giving years of their lives – sometimes a decade – to mastering their craft through schooling, testing, practicing and rendering professional services. New bloggers experience a less steep learning curve but still need to put in years of learning and generous service to become professional bloggers.
Slow down. Calm down. Take your time. Set realistic expectations to see clearly on your beginner blogger journey.
4: Realize that Blogging Is a Skill
Blogging gives you what you give blogging.
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Blogging is a skill.
New bloggers often believe they can grow their blog traffic quickly, without practicing their writing for thousands of hours.
Nope.
Networking is a skill.
Learning how to properly format posts is a skill. Being generous is a skill. Blog commenting is a skill.
Blogging is spending thousands of hours practicing the right strategies, persistently and patiently, without panicking, until you become a highly skilled blogger.
Blogging gives you whatever you give blogging. Perfect exchange. Unfailing.
If you want to live your most fun, freeing dreams, commit much of your life to blogging. Be all in, for a freeing, fulfilling journey.
Following tip #3 closely positions you to grasp this tip. Releasing deluded expectations grounds you in the light of truth. Focusing not on trying to get rich quickly frees up energy to be devoted to mastering the skill of blogging.
Do not be intimated by the prospect of learning and mastering this skill through diligent practice. Consider all skills you mastered over the years. Blogging is simply one other skill to learn and master through diligent practice.
Wrap Up
Blogging is so much fun, guys.
Sometimes, blogging is a bit scary too.
Keep these four ideas in mind to better face, embrace and release fears so you can enjoy this journey and ride out the inevitable blogging bumps on the road.
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