Yaniklar, Turkey
Sometimes, it feels like the entire world is against you as a blogger.
Do you feel like a blogging underdog right now?
Does nothing seem to be working for you? Does nothing seem to be happening for you?
Before you throw in the towel, I want to introduce you to two of the most dominating players in NCAA basketball in the United States (noted for my international readers) as of this post publish date.
Back before I began circling the globe as a blogger, I closely followed the career of each dynamo at The Patrick School in Northern New Jersey.
Jordan Walker is 5-9. Markquis Nowell is 5-6. In the tall world of basketball, both are considered to be quite short with the seeming odds stacked against them. Both were largely overlooked at the high school level as being too small to make an impact on big time D1 basketball.
Yet, after overcoming all types of adversity, each became a dominant D1 player. Jordan led the country in scoring for much of the year. Markquis ranked #2 in the nation for assists for most of the year.
Right now, Jordan is ranked #3 in scoring and Markquis is ranked #3 is assists. Both seeming overlooked, “too small to succeed” underdogs from the same tiny high school in NJ have been 2 of the best players out of well over 5,000 D1 hoopers.
Each mighty might proved that the only way to beat the odds is to not play ’em but to look within your mind, to believe in yourself and to practice diligently, developing your wills until the world WILL notice you.
Who cares what’s “out there”? What is in you and your willingness to dream and develop your skills matters.
In addition to registering dominant personal statistics, both leaders guided their teams to successful seasons, too.
Both came from the same tiny high school in New Jersey.
But both proved that it is your mindset and your willingness to chase your dreams despite slamming into fear again and again that dictates your reality.
I would like for you to read each of these stories:
Jordan Jelly Walker Inspirational Story
Markquis Walker Inspirational Story
Their mindset made the difference because thinking beyond the pain and heartache of challenges propelled them to practice, to practice, to develop skills and to transcend beyond the world’s shabby expectations for them.
Both worked patiently enough to develop their skills to have a legitimate shot at the NBA.
Both ballers sharpened their mind to the point of ignoring outside appearances. Neither based their opinion of self on worldly circumstances.
In laymen’s terms, they did not trust the appearances of the world (too small, too short, not good enough).
Jordan and Markquis mentally and physically worked their way into becoming elite basketball players.
How About You?
Do you see yourself as a blogging underdog?
Do you feel like a blogging underdog?
Now is the time to sharpen your mindset.
Begin to think, feel and act like a successful blogger by putting less faith in appearances and more faith in yourself.
I know what you may be going through guys. Appearances suggested that I was a laid off security guard some 15 years ago. I knew nothing about blogging. Heck; I did not know what a blog was. I did not know SEO from a CEO. But I patiently honed my mind to believe less in appearances surrounding me and more in myself and my unlimited mental potential.
Mental Potential
Did you know that your mind is virtually limitless in terms of its power, scale and scope?
The world makes the critical error of thinking only through the ego. The ego voice claims that you are a single body with a single mind resting in the body’s head.
Do not buy this bullshit psyche job.
You, me and every life form are one single mind. All life forms are connected as one.
This is why you can think about a loved one who calls you 10 seconds after the thought. You, the loved one and everyone are mind joined as one single, all powerful mind.
Terms for the one mind vary.
Some call it the:
- intuition
- gut
- Holy Spirit
- internal guide
Others find familiarity in seeing the one mind as Jesus, or the Buddha or their enlightened being of choice.
Note; Jesus, Buddha and all enlightened minds fully realized that no separation exists. Each ascended master clearly understood how God created one of us (Buddha appeared to learn this in a later lifetime according to these ascended masters).
Do you genuinely believe that an incredibly powerful mind connected to one can be an underdog? Do you believe that this level of mind can forgive or look past appearances?
You betcha it can!
But accessing the one-mind and ceasing to see yourself as little requires mind training.
Mind Training
A Course in Miracles is one mind training guide.
Meditating helps to train the mind too.
The method to train the mind is not as important as the willingness to look within to face yours fears. Facing fears sitting in the mind reveals the appearances you:
- judge as true
- cling to as reality
- refuse to let go
which keep you in the struggling, miserable role of perpetual underdog.
Point blank; mind training is the only way I gradually stopped seeing myself as a relatively powerless individual tossed to and fro on the sea of circumstance. Slowly but surely, I saw myself in a more powerful light. Framing myself in a more powerful light let me see past circumstances versus judging myself based on circumstances and identifying personally with these appearances.
Do Not Identify with Circumstances
Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban once said how he never identified with financial struggles experienced as a budding entrepreneur.
Even though his circumstances appeared to be selling products door to door he did not see himself as a door to door salesman struggling to make money. He simply focused on his dreams with a strong mind to forgive, overlook and see past circumstances.
Train your mind to look beyond temporary circumstances that appear to make you the underdog. Learn how to see your blogging dreams clearly. Develop the skill of listening to your intuition to keep following proven, success-building blogging steps even if the world appears to crumble around you.
Blogging seems challenging in moments when life intervenes. Tread through these specific moments mindfully to face your fears. The difficult circumstances are not you! Do not identify with the challenges. See beyond the resistance toward following the blogging basics diligently.
What About Solely Working Hard?
Beware of only trying to outwork circumstances.
No mind out runs its shadows.
No mind outworks its ghosts.
As long as you deeply trust your circumstances these situations will appear to crush you.
This is the same shit different day scenario we all have suffered from.
Working hard to overcome resistance instead of mentally looking past it to develop your skills results in a few major mistakes most of the 7 billion humans on planet earth make daily like:
- self-sabotaging on a routine basis just like clockwork
- blaming circumstances for your failure to perpetuate a victim mentality
- general burnout
Imagine punching a speed bag as forcefully as possible then leaning close enough to be smacked by the bag square in your kisser.
Who hurt you? You or the speedbag?
This is why you need mind training, first, to stop focusing exclusively on appearances and to cease trying to outwork circumstances in order to calmly put in the work to completely look and move past the obstacles.
Doing mental gymnastics feels uncomfortable in moments but freedom tastes sweet and the alternative absolutely sucks.
Note how most humans live completely in survival mode. These minds fully overestimate appearances and dismiss their own seemingly unlimited mind power.
Focus your mind on your blogging dreams. When obstacles arise, mentally be with fears fueling obstacles and practice the art of listening to the intuition to guide you through difficult to forgive appearances.
How Is this Approach Practical?
Facing fear in your mind as you look beyond appearances moves you beyond underdog mode into practical steps mode leading to solutions.
For example, imagine facing the appearance of extreme financial difficulties. In your mind, feeling the fear of living in abject poverty guides you intuitively to look past the appearance of money lost to the most practical solution.
Spirit may guide you to:
- get a part time job
- get a loan
- take out a credit card
- ask a loved one for money
as practical solutions to your money problems.
Or, your intuition may guide you to do something else.
The ego voice may hate following each or all practical tips but….fuck ’em! That jerk-voice is the reason you suffer through financial problems in the first place! Do you really want to continue to trust the voice of poverty madness, chaos, loss and death?
I didn’t think so.
Practical Blogging Advice
As a blogger, training the mind to face fear and see beyond appearances:
- sends practical blogging ideas to your mind
- leads to intuitive guidance like beginning to guest blog, comment genuinely on blogs or perhaps to begin SEO-optimizing blog content to target quality traffic and build strong relationships
- detaches you largely from outcomes to develop trust in yourself and in the blogging process
I left these practical blogging tips for last guys.
Here’s why: almost all struggling bloggers believe that following a practical tip with their failure conscious mind is the way to succeed. Every one of these struggling bloggers struggles forever until facing their fears and seeing beyond appearances because each self-sabotages by giving up quickly, ignoring sound blogging advice or blaming appearances for failure.
Imagine if Jordan and Markquis judged themselves according to appearances? Each would have been a role player on a college basketball team. Instead, each tapped into their powerful mind to find the energy to patiently develop their skills to dominate D1 hoops as seeming lilliputians.
Mark Cuban would still be a door to door salesman struggling financially if he judged himself according to his temporary circumstances. He looked past appearances to mentally and physically put in the work to become a business icon.
Conclusion
You can do it guys.
You can and will succeed as a blogger.
But you need to do the mind training to develop the proper blogging skills amidst the appearances of struggle, failure and other temporary circumstances.
Get after it mentally, first. Face fears in your mind that trust the appearances and crappy expectations of the world.
From there, the work gets easier and easier because you will do what you love for the joy of it and for being truly helpful instead of working mindlessly and stressfully to outrun fear-filled appearances.
I believe in you!
