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Every blogger learns through different teaching styles.
Various teaches resonant with different students.
I love blogging mentors who get right to the point to stress the blogging fundamentals. Evergreen content vibes with me. Trend chasers lose my interest. Why would you teach someone strategies that work today and disappear tomorrow? Why would you guide followers to reinvent themselves with the frequent, volatile trends of change?
Other bloggers love blogging teachers who drill down into stats, metrics and studies. Data-obsessed guides instill trust in blogging students who enjoy case studies, analytics and numbers-based blogging in general.
Whatever floats your blogging boat, I say.
All roads lead to Rome, eventually. Bloggers can and do succeed through various schools of thought but only if your teacher currently suits you.
Unfortunately, some beginner bloggers let their greed or desperation influence poorly made decisions. New bloggers who follow less than honest mentors seem steered astray, especially if the new blogger picked the guide based on fears like greed or desperation.
Practical Example
Some blogging teachers stress only the benefits of becoming a professional blogger without sharing detailed, practical steps for reaching the dream life.
Selling the dream without guiding followers on how to get there is a huge red flag often lost on green, beginner bloggers.
Images of Infinity pools, scantily-clad chicks (or dudes) and bodies swinging from hammocks (usually alive) grace blogs, squeeze pages and social media accounts of some professionals who blog. Sexy images entice newbies who sometimes want something for nothing.
I have zero problems with promoting the lifestyle. Goodness knows that I do it here on Blogging From Paradise.
Images of me chilling in Fiji, Bali, Thailand, Qatar, Prague and London plaster my pages. I want you to live the dream; readers ask for such pictures to gain inspiration or to live vicariously through me. I give the readers what they want in terms of sharing my dream with the world.
However, I also lay out practical steps for achieving this lifestyle. I share the dream along with the practical steps to live the dream through free blog content and premium blogging resources.
One simple scan of my:
- blog posts
- blogging courses
- blogging eBooks
- social media handles
reveals that I create a hefty volume of content in addition to a course and eBooks to guide bloggers to succeed.
Some bloggers don’t take a similar approach in terms of being transparent.
I am not judging these individuals. We all have free will. People can do as they please. Plus, since we have free will, there are no victims.
But perhaps you chose the wrong blogging mentor to follow and now it’s time to select a more genuine individual who lives the dream and explicitly teaches you how to get there, too.
Reality Wakes You Up
New bloggers often delude themselves into believing that blogging is quite easy.
Believing in the ease of blogging steers this crowd to find particularly manipulative bloggers who pay big advertising bucks to be prominently seen online.
No judgments here; just the facts.
Masters of persuasion seem highly skilled at injecting big numbers mingled with ample promise into advertisements. Green, deluded new bloggers hellbent on seeking easy money gobble this shit up like Pac Man scarfs down Ghosts.
After following the big blogging advertiser for a bit the new blogger quickly understands that blogging is not easy. Blogging suddenly requires patient study, mindful practice, genuine skills development and a full on commitment for a while before success flows to the blogger.
Meanwhile, the blogging mentor selected during more greedy, desperate, deluded days seems like a poor mentor for bloggers struck with realism. Besides; the big ad guy only gives a little bit of free, barely helpful information before up-selling followers for the next bit of information, all for the bottom basement price of “Insert Dollar Amount Here”.
Choose a new mentor who actually teaches you how to blog successfully through their blog content, blogging products and blogging services.
Let go the prior mentor whose strategy no longer resonates with your realistic blogging approach.
Follow Genuine Blogging Mentors
I regularly advise you guys; you really need to put in time and work before succeeding with blogging.
No blogging shortcuts exist.
Readers sometimes tell me that each appreciates my genuine approach because folks tend to feel grateful for truthful human beings who promise that the rewards come with work.
Of course, if you pick your blogging niche properly, the blogging work largely feels like fun play.
Any blogging mentor who stresses the amount of time and work required to go pro can be trusted because every authentic pro knows that going pro requires a big time and work commitment.
Follow honest blogging teachers who lay out detailed blogging strategies and emphasize the commitment required to thrive.
Surround yourself with genuine bloggers.
Release the rest.
Let Them Go
Letting go worn out blogging bonds feels awkward sometimes.
But let go old, tired blogging friendships you must to accelerate your blogging success.
Releasing mentors, blogging friends and online entrepreneurs in general who inflate promises but under deliver content moves you into the proper mental space. Surrounding yourself with less honest people rubs off on you.
Letting go this crowd reduces the desire to take failure-inducing shortcuts.
Shed a less authentic blogging crowd. Make room for a genuine blogger friend network.
Practice releasing by taking stock of your blogger buddy network every 3-6 months. Whittle through your blogger friend list. Keep the higher energy types. Let go everyone else.
Pruning your blogging friend list is never personal. This simple practice amplifies your success because birds of a feature flock together.
Networking only with successful bloggers also guides you along the prospering blogging path because these individuals teach you through the power of their shining example.
Hang with the blogging pros to learn from the best.
Get serious about blogging by only being guided by prospering pros who teach you how to blog effectively.
Conclusion
Let go the blogging past.
Hug the blogging presence.
Be in the moment.
Blogging power resides in the here and now.
The blogging past, with its less than reputable mentors in some instances, is gone. Allow it to remain dead and buried.
Move forward to a bright, new present to position yourself to become a successful blogger.
