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Everyone needs blogger motivation sometimes.
All bloggers hit peaks and valleys.
Blasting through resistance leads to success.
Admitting your temporary lack of motivation is the way to move past blogging lulls.
First, own the fact that you appear to be stuck. From there, moving forward becomes the next logical step.
Are you stuck in a blogging rut?
Follow these tips to increase your blogger motivation.
1: The Rut Is in Your Mind
The blogging rut is an idea in your mind.
Since you dream the rut you can leave the rut.
Doesn’t that sound freeing?
Blogging obstacles begin and end in the imagination. If you feel stuck you dream being stuck but pin the dream on some projection. The ego loves to blame the outside world for the inner mental block.
Google, Facebook and email lists seem worthy scapegoats for being stuck in a blogging rut.
But the low point is an idea in your mind.
As within, so without.
Dwell on this idea to gently step out of your blogging rut.
If you dreamed yourself into the rut you can dream yourself out of the rut.
2: Be Gentle Rut Busters
Be gentle with self as you leave ruts. Here’s why: energetic momentum builds over years.
If you see yourself as lazy or flat out a sloppy blogging slug it requires mind training, patience and gentleness to forgive fears fueling lazy, sloppy, slug-identification formulated over years.
For example, slamming into writer’s block feels like being seriously stuck in a blogging rut. Attempting to force yourself to write through brute force usually triggers deeper fears manifest as anger, frustration and self-hate.
Slowing down, calming down and softly feeling the fears fueling the rut seems uncomfortable. Tears will arise. Yet, forgiving these fears – and tears – quickly stokes your prolific nature.
In one moment, writer’s block appeared to position you in a blogging rut. After gently crying for a few moments, the ideas flow, you write and leave the blogging rut.
Being gentle and patient helps you bust the rut a thousand times more quickly than if you used force.
Allow emotions to arise during rut-dissolving sessions. The ego creates ruts by resisting fear in your mind. Gently leaving tough spots involves facing, feeling and releasing fears in mind. Feel fear no matter how unpleasant the emotion seems to be. Cry. Feel free to scream into a pillow if frustration reaches a fever pitch.
Soften your mind.
Be gentle with yourself to gracefully exit your blogging rut.
3: Buy Blogging Resources
Buy blogging resources to leave your blogging rut.
Overwhelm dissolves into clarity.
Resources offer you 1-stop-shopping for overcoming obstacles. Invest money in a course, eBook or coaching to step out of a pit created in your mind.
Blogging resources point out common blogging pitfalls. Versus groping in the blogging dark to figure out your rut-source a premium course or eBook gently reveals your mental error for correcting and forgiving.
Remember guys; pro bloggers have been through it all. Invest in their experience to save yourself many blogging headaches.
Put your ego and pocketbook concerns to the side.
Admit that you need help from pros.
Invest money in pro resources to get your blogging mojo back.
4: The Rut Is Not Real
Fear is an illusion.
Love is real.
Ruts are not real. Ruts are nothing.
Sure; blogging ruts appear to be real. Being stuck seems to be real. But appearances and seeming situations are still illusions. Illusions are not real.
Ponder every time you left a blogging rut. If the rut were real you could not have left the sticking point because its reality would have smothered you permanently.
As a rule of thumb, if it changes it is an illusion.
Meditating on this simple truth gives one the mental strength to put blogging slow points in the rear view mirror for good.
5: Follow Inspired Bloggers
Professional bloggers inspire you to become a blogging rut buster.
Pros offer you empowered examples of folks who dug deeper to find blogging motivation during challenging circumstances over the long haul.
Consider these pros:
Inspirational bloggers give you ideas for tapping into blogging motivation.
Learn from these pros through osmosis.
Blast through blogging ruts.
6: Create Something
Create something.
Shift the mind from your blogging problems to solving reader problems.
Write a blog post. Publish a guest post. Broadcast a live video.
Thinking of others gently nudges you out of your self-imposed blogging rut.
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Focus on your readers. Create content to help them.
Getting stuck means you focused inward, solely about self and your needs.
Shift the focus to others. Solve their problems.
Shifting from ego-fear to others-love pulls you out of the blogging doldrums instantly.
7: Connect with Someone
Every time you feel stuck, consider helping someone succeed by:
- commenting on their blog
- promoting them on social media
- promoting them on your blog
Connect with another human being. Leave your blogging rut to meet someone outside of the rut.
I spent today visiting the blogs of bloggers who:
- commented on my blog
- retweeted and engaged me on Twitter
- engaged me on Facebook
I flagged a bit earlier in the day but connecting with other people left my sluggish blogging energy behind.
Blogging is a people business.
Connecting with people nudges you past imagined blogging obstacles toward greater blogging success.
As a neat bonus, leaving your blogging rut to serve others inspires them to leave their blogging rut to be generous servants.
8: Celebrate Your Blogging Nut
Celebrate blogging wins to get unstuck.
Appreciate blogging profits.
Feel good about blog traffic.
Count each comment on your blog as a gift.
Feeling good about wins lifts you out of a blogging rut.
Celebrate:
- buying your domain and hosting
- writing your first blog post
- blog comments
- social shares
Tune into abundance. Exit the illusory scarcity of being in a blogging rut.
Every growth moment marks a blogging win.
Growth-oriented bloggers experience consistent wins not because this crowd embraces stunning worldly success but because growth-focused bloggers spot seemingly small wins build into something special. Investing in your domain and hosting is a win. Reading and commenting on a blog is a win. Writing and publishing a blog post serves as a win, too.
Concentrate on blogging wins. Release blogging resistance. Step out of a rut by observing your blogging growth.
Video
Being passionate about blogging is one way to avoid falling into a blogging rut.
Check out my video for a reminder:
Wrap Up
Get off your butt.
Leave your blogging rut.
Feel the fun and freedom of being prolific, helping folks and prospering.
Your Turn
What tips can you add to this list for increased blogger motivation?
How do you leave a blogging rut?
