Do you have a plug-in for that?
What can AI do for you?
How can you avoid putting in blogging work? What is the quickest way? What shortcut can you take in order to succeed as a blogger?
I get all the common work-related questions. I asked a few myself over the years. Thank goodness I took the long way even if it felt challenging at times. Most bloggers get lost in a maze of shortcuts that lead nowhere. Ask for a quick way. If you don’t get the answer you want, ask for another way involving little to no blogging work.
Taking short cuts seems like the easy way around blogging obstacles.
But unless you work you cannot succeed.
Unless you take the long way you cannot thrive.
If you try to avoid the work you neglect taking the steps necessary to go pro.
Traffic and income follow specific blogging work. Skipping the work skips the income too, similar to taking a day off from your job and not receiving hourly wages for the day.
If you resist doing the work you will never get paid.
Reality Check
I removed the SEO plug-in from my blog a while back.
I realized that even though plug-ins can complement SEO strategies the only way to rank regularly is to:
- practice writing for years
- publish detailed content
- publish targeted content
- build relationships
A plug-in cannot do the blogging grunt work for you; only you can do the blogging grunt work.
AI cannot do blogging grunt work for you; only you can.
No thing, or no one, outside of you can do the work to help you succeed.
Only you can do the blogging work in order to thrive.
Pro bloggers do pro work for years before going full-time. The work creates a professional blogging career. First you put in a work investment. The investment brings exponential returns over the long haul.
Bloggers sometimes resist doing the work. Some want something for nothing. Others feel intimidated by doing the work. Some perceive themselves to be lazy.
Do You Fear Doing the Blogging Work?
I noticed something recently about my mindset.
Even though I’ve blogged for quite a long time I still uncover fears from time to time. Fearing freedom loss is one such fear. The mind fears that working more to get tasks done impinges on freedom I’d seemingly experience offline as I circle the globe.
I find myself writing this post at 9 PM on a Sunday night. Do I fear getting it done? I do a little bit. One part of my split mind prefers to watch streaming. Yet I get it done. I look past the fear. I love my freedom. Doing the work amplifies my freedom from time and location.
Mind training is how to handle the fear of doing blogging work.
Forgiving the fear inspires you to get to work.
Be Patient to Trigger Various Work-Related Fears
Working patiently reveals various work-related fears. The stuff comes up as you ease into discomfort.
Proceeding brings up work-related fears that have held you back.
For example, the more patiently one works at blogging the individual slowly sees:
- fears related to interacting with, communicating with and working with clients, customers, readers and fellow bloggers
- fears related to losing your identity, losing contact with family members (or no longer fitting in to their box-definition of you…pissing them off) and general rejection from people who liked you as the pre-blogger person but not as the blogger person
- fears related to increased success, greater responsibility and expanded freedom; the mind often fears success more deeply than failure for success unearths highly uncomfortable emotions related to worthiness, deserving and a general self-hate
- fears related to wasting time, failure and hopelessness
- fears related to being criticized
- fears related to receiving increased blogging exposure and fraud syndrome
The fears arise as you keep at it.
Gain invaluable blogging experience. Ease into limiting beliefs. See what’s kicking around in your mind.
Successful Blog or Successful Blogger?
Bloggers who fear doing blogging work sometimes ask about how to build a successful blog.
Note the clever projection of personal responsibility onto the blog. In one moment, the work-resistant blogger gives responsibility to an inanimate object.
Imagine if a carpenter asked what it takes to build a successful hammer?
Never confuse tools with the human being who practices diligently with the tools to become successful. As the human BEING bleeds blogging success the natural effect seems to be a successful blog.
Be careful about projecting responsibility onto a blog because doing so may suggest a pulsating distaste for doing the blogging work.
Blogs are just blogs. Bloggers become successful. Bloggers who do the work become successful.
How to Conquer this Fear
Choose to blog mainly for fun to make the work the reward. Making blogging work the chief reward dissipates fear associated with the work.
Invest in blogging courses and blogging eBooks. Blogging resources guide you through the inevitable fears all bloggers face on their journey. Online courses and guides lay out practical steps to follow in the proper setting to nudge you forward through:
- obstacles
- mental blocks
- resistance
- heaviness
arising in the mind of all bloggers.
Help fellow bloggers with few if any expectations.
Remove psychological attachment to work.
Conclusion
Do you fear doing the blogging work?
If the answer is a big, fat “YES” be honest about your resistance to working the blogging process.
Follow the practical tips above to free yourself.
Expand your blogging success by purging fears related to doing the blogging work.
Ryan Biddulph is the owner and creator of Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.