Savusavu, Fiji
Do you want to become a successful blogger?
Professionals can guide you to succeed.
Full time bloggers can teach you how to succeed.
But……
“You need to do the work.”
The 6 word blogging wake up call shocks most because bloggers typically want someone else to do some or even all of the work for them. Consciously, most refute that claim. Unconsciously, a majority will turn around and think, feel and act like a blogger who wants others to do a hefty amount of the legwork for them.
Reading and re-reading these 6 words reminds one: you need to do the work.
For example, some bloggers ask me questions via social media and wait for a day or 2 for me to do the work in terms of supplying ’em with answers. Bloggers ask and wait for me to personally provide the answers.
But you need to do the work because I already did the work to hold up my part of the deal. I devoted a decade of my life to building a blog which answers all of the important blogging questions for you. I also created an online course and eBooks for sale to answer questions in even greater depth.
You need to:
- visit my blog
- read posts
- study posts
- get answers
- invest money in courses and eBooks
- study courses and eBooks
- get answers
I taught via my blog, courses and eBooks.
You need to be the willing, hungry, ambitious student hellbent on following my teaching now to:
- get answers
- act on your newfound blogging knowledge
- do the work
What Doing the Work Means?
Doing the work means being:
- ambitious
- hungry
- forward-thinking
- bold
- borderline aggressive
- independent thinking
with your blogging thoughts, feelings and actions.
Typically, this means unlearning the world and its:
- apathy
- laziness
- upside-down, backwards thinking
- meekness
- timidity
- dependency
which has been drilled into your mind via the world from the beginning of your life.
Bloggers pitch me guest posts, backlinks and services because none want to do the work of building a blog which organically and passively brings guest post opportunities, high quality backlinks and blogging business to you.
I rarely check email but saw an individual today who has pitched me an affiliate offer for the past 5 years. He does not want to do the work of creating blog posts and offline content which would draw affiliates to him like bees to honey. Of course, he wastes years chasing strangers who barely check their email because he does not do the work, himself, to build a blogging asset and earn blogging income via that asset.
Why Do You Need to Do the Work?
Doing the blogging work is the only way to get the experience required to become:
- skilled
- seen
- credible
Professional bloggers go pro AFTER becoming skilled, seen and credible.
For example, if you came across my blog but I lacked skills and credibility in your eyes you’d exit the blog quickly, never to return. If you never saw my blog in the first place……I do not exist, to you, as a blogger. If you found my blog, perceived me to be skilled but not enough to be credible in your eyes, you may stick around for a bit before bouncing from this blog, for good.
First, full-time bloggers put in work for a long time. Then, putting in work makes bloggers skilled, seen and credible. Then, money eventually flows in until bloggers reach the full-time level.
Skipping the work skips the only step that matters.
Skipping the work skips the invaluable experience we all need to gain before thriving mainly because developing a heightened sense of emotional intelligence usually comes with becoming a professional blogger.
Putting in Work Elevates Your Emotional Intelligence
I once heard a 7 figure blogger explain how he published multiple long form posts daily for one year.
At the end of the year he netted a few hundred dollars.
Most bloggers sport such a low level of emotional intelligence dripping with the fears of:
- poverty
- failure
- wasting time
that they would have quit 1, 2 or 3 months into this process. Almost every single blogger would have quit after publishing 2-3 long form posts daily for 365 days to net a few hundred dollars because pulsating fears in the mind backed by low emotional intelligence would create panic, or hopelessness, or desperation, goading one to quit.
Brave souls who decide to develop a high level of emotional intelligence, leaving their comfort zone to demonstrate both fearlessness and a willingness to face fear, gain critical experience like the millionaire blogger above and eventually become the most successful bloggers on earth.
I listened to an 8 figure blogger on the same dais explain how he simply never gave up until spending a good decade putting in the work. His experience combined with dogged persistence netted him an 8 figure net worth through blogging. This leading blogger stressed how you cannot beat someone who never gives up. He persistently helped readers with detailed content; success became a formality because his commitment to putting in the blogging work made it so.
If you do not put in the work you will never be confident, develop fortitude and trust deeply in self and in the blogging process. You need blogging experience to exercise sound judgment, to make wise decisions and to exude a sense of calm confidence that makes one appear to be a super hero to the largely doubt-filled, panicked bloggers with the posture of a jellyfish negligent of its core exercises.
The work makes your blog.
The work creates your success.
No one can ever relay the work to you. Nor can anyone succeed solely by piggy-backing on the success of fellow bloggers because attempting this slippery task eventually exposes you as a fraud. For example, if I went senile and opened Blogging From Paradise to guest blogging for struggling bloggers and offered a newbie this platform they would be perceived to be fraudulent simply because they have not put in the work to become highly skilled, seen and credible.
Sure you could attempt to piggyback on my success by using my platform but your guest post would not inspire credibility, even with access to my trusting readership. My readers trust me and my content because I put in blogging work and gained 15 years of blogging experience. Newbie bloggers do not have the experience yet because none has put in enough time and work to become highly skilled, to gain massive exposure and to establish granite-like credibility.
Conclusion
Professional bloggers guide. But you need to do the work.
Follow pro guidance by putting in the work yourself.
Putting in the work is the only way to become a successful blogger.
