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Beginner blogger tips typically consist of what to do or even how to do it in outlier cases.
But almost no one – save me – discusses the mindset aspect of starting a blog.
Picking your environment goes into developing a successful blogging mindset.
Who do you surround yourself with?
What bloggers offer you advice? Do these bloggers boast extensive professional experience? Do these bloggers possess a proven blogging track record?
Or do you surround yourself with struggling new bloggers? Most do. I did. Networking with struggling beginners felt safe to me. I felt comfortable with this scenario 17 years ago because we could all complain to each other about our problems. No unsafe, uncomfortable emotion triggering pro blogger could show up and:
- point out our errors
- correct our errors
- offer successful guidance to help us experience freedom
Besides; bitching and moaning about experienced pros felt familiar to me. Every blogger around me did it. Most tossed in a few “This is so unfair!” grievances to boot.
Laying off the sarcasm for a few moments, beginners replay this same dreadful scenario because people are almost entirely unconscious creatures until someone points out the folly of their ways.
Why would a confused new blogger surround themselves with confused new bloggers? Why would someone do this even if it meant struggling, failing and quitting? Unconscious thought patterns pushed way outside of awareness fuel each scenario. You know not what you do until reading this blog post on Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.
I ask probing questions. I put the ball in your court. Do you wait for honest answers? I hope so. Otherwise, you cannot succeed until you mentally get out of your own way.
A Failing Scenario
Some new bloggers fly solo.
Newbie blogging lone wolves wing it based on their utter lack of experience.
Priding themselves on their rugged individualism, these blind as a bat blogging fools:
- have no idea what they’re thinking
- have no idea what they’re doing
- get zero feedback
- experience zero success
- feel depressed, isolated and lonely
- struggle
- fail
- quit
I suffered through this stretch, too.
After spotting the error of my ways – networking with and learning from struggling beginner bloggers – I went the blogging lone wolf route. I surrounded myself with no one. I followed no successful guide. I had no professional mentor. I winged it, solo, struggled and failed for a long time.
I assumed that I could succeed going solo but had:
- no successful experience
- no professional guidance
- no idea what I was doing
Failure and depression followed.
I eventually changed course.
I found a better way.
Surround Yourself with Highly Experienced Professional Bloggers
I gradually decided to surround myself only with capable pro bloggers who taught me how to succeed.
I succeeded after taking this critical step.
Everyone around me was really good at some aspects of blogging. I learned a bit from each. I found my own style but worked within a collective pro blogger framework of creating practical content and bonding with resonant readers.
Succeeding took a good deal of time and confident work; yet each became an investment in freedom for me. Pros taught me to think that way. Pros surrounded me; I learned through osmosis.
How About Beginner Blogger You?
Are you ready to step up by doing a check up from the neck up?
Look past everyone who is not a pro blogger. Nothing personal; just your worldly freedom at stake.
Surround yourself only with full-time bloggers.
Pick 1 or maybe 2 to follow their specific system closely.
Succeed.
Pros will both cheer lead you and correct you when required. Pros express compassion but never handle you with kid gloves because successful bloggers need to develop ambition, hunger to thrive and a full willingness to look objectively at their errors. Successful bloggers also humbly follow corrective guidance from pros.
Conclusion
Lose the concept of loss with your blogging strategy.
Surround yourself only with top bloggers.
Follow their lead……to succeed.
