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“I want to publish this post. But I want to wait around for my readers to stop by, check out my prior post, drop a few comments and maybe share the post to Facebook. Yeah; I will wait for my old post to gain traction before writing and publishing this new post.”
“I never want to share too much content. Doing that annoys readers. Some may stop following my blog. I do not want to lose a single subscriber. My email list is already so small. What if I lose everyone? What if my email list goes to zero? They say the money is in the list. If I have no subs I will never make a penny through my blog.”
“I want to be prolific. But nobody reads my blog. At least, nobody read my blog in the past. So based on the past, why would I bother writing and publishing another blog post? Who will read it? Nobody reads my blog. I worked at it for so long. I worked so hard at it. Yet no one reads it. Screw it; I’ll wait another week or two to see if anyone shows up.”
Do Any of These Thoughts Sound Familiar?
As painful as it feels, reading these words to find a match between your limiting beliefs and these private – or public – thoughts is required. How else can you realize that it is you who holds yourself back? When I say “you” I mean the mind. Or from a less quantum perspective, we will say, “your” mind.
Everything happens in your mind first and foremost. Blogging struggles are inner states. The confusing part is this: almost everything in your mind unfolds unconsciously. Thoughts and feelings flash by so freaking fast it has made you mindless. Until you read a post like this. I invite you to become mindful. Now you can free yourself of dreadful limiting beliefs.
Every Blogger Harbors Limiting Beliefs
Every blogger clings to limiting beliefs because no blogger is enlightened. High level pros appear to have conquered most limiters because their results suggest so. Yet even established bloggers harbor ideas that hold them back.
I picked the first three paragraphs based on what has or still pops up in my mind from time to time. I feel confident in my blog; until I don’t. This is life for folks who’ve yet to become ascended masters. We just chip away at unconscious fears surfacing as ideas within holding us back.
One of my longstanding fears is opening the flood gates on publishing detailed content. I know I could write and publish one or more practical, detailed posts daily. So why do I avoid doing this for long stretches? I am unconsciously afraid to piss off readers with too much content. Or I fear that not enough people will see my content; better squeeze max traffic from the old posts, fears in my mind, tell me.
I’m being transparent to reveal that even 18 year blogging veterans do mental gymnastics from time to time to get the job done. I sat down to write this blog post by:
- facing
- feeling
- looking past
at least a few of the fears above.
I saw my mind holding myself back then looked past the limiting beliefs in order to write the post.
ID These Fears Or Else…..
Not identifying the fears makes the whole process go to custard. You talk yourself out of writing a post. The process happens largely unconsciously. Everything happens fast because you are unaware of the inner chatter. Think robot. Or think cyborg. Your mind appears to tell you that you cannot blog for whatever reason, you accept the chatter as gospel then you never sit down to write and publish the blog post.
I have a better idea.
Look within.
Do the inner work.
Identify core beliefs holding you back.
Practical Tips
Keep these ideas in mind:
- every experience occurs in your mind first before you experience things on the physical plane
- most of what goes on in your physical world is completely unconscious but only because you mistakenly believe the world happens outside-in
- you are not a victim of the world but the cause
- ideas leave not their source; this means that whatever seems to be going on with your blog happens in your mind
- spend some time in quiet today to look within your unconscious mind
- relax the mind and body; let your blogging-related fears arise in the mind
- grab a pen and paper – or phone – to list fears in the mind holding you back
- look closely at these fears
- feel the fears
- look past the fears
- proceed to think, feel and blog a bit more abundantly
Stripping limiting beliefs removes limits from the mind.
Blogging gets easier if you refuse to jail yourself.
The mind is an open space or prison depending on how you train it.
Look closely at your blogging limiting beliefs.
Do you fear annoying readers? Do you worry about getting negative comments? Do you bend over backwards trying to make people happy when you know damn well that you cannot control anyone’s mind?
Go Through Your Mind
The way past blogging obstacles is through your mind. Life is an inner process.
I sat down to write this post because I walked through my fears to look past the jailers.
I stopped talking myself out of writing the blog post to talk myself into writing the blog post.
That’s real power.
What About this Idea?
I wrote a long form, practical blog post based on a blogging tip or two, today.
I conquered a limiting belief to publish:
- thorough content
- on-topic content
- practical content
I did not write ten, 400 word blog posts for Blogging From Paradise today because in a world of duality, quality content wins and a heavy volume of thin content loses. As the world judges blog posts, people want a 1,000 or 1,200 word, thorough, practical piece of content to baby step ’em from problem to solution.
Mastering the concept in this post is no excuse to publish a heavy volume of crap work. Following that flawed strategy is just your limiting beliefs acting up again. Blogging from a scared, frenzied state brings failure just as quickly as not blogging at all.
Blogging is creating one long-form, 1,000 or 1,200 or even 1,500 word post, distributing it, then moving on to creating the next thorough post to be distributed. Everything needs to be truly helpful, practical and pretty much hit the bullseye as far as addressing reader problems.
But then again, by shedding limiting beliefs in the mind you will do this stuff organically.