Do You Need to Stop Thinking Upside Down as a Blogger? |

Ryan Biddulph May 22, 2025 blogging tips 🕑 5 minutes read

Hue, Vietnam

Do you think upside-down like most bloggers?

Do you follow the blogging herd? Do you think, feel and act like most bloggers? Why? What motivates you to be like most other bloggers? Note how most bloggers fail. Does that appeal to you? I mean not to bust your blogging balls but I am being honest. Having a heart to heart with yourself is the only way to turn things around if you find yourself in that lot.

Forced Capitulation

Everyone falls prey to the herd level of thinking growing up in the world. Planet earth forces the masses into capitulation early on. Unless you grow up in a temple somewhere with ascended masters you will not think independently, right-side up, until consciously choosing to do so on a consistent basis. The process feels challenging but liberating.

Following the blogging herd leads to failure because most think, feel and act in failing fashion. However, thinking upside-down allows you to think, feel and act like a successful blogger because you do the opposite of failing bloggers to be a successful blogger. For example, imagine intending to make your blog popular. The blogging herd thinks that putting ALL attention on yourself and your blog is the way to become a popular blogger. But the blogging herd fails in this endeavor because people do not tend to like, trust or follow self-centered people.

Do you enjoy following a blogger who talks about themselves all day long? Or do you prefer following a blogger who talks about other bloggers and their readers at least some of the time? Promoting yourself is A-OK; go for it! But promoting other bloggers goes a long way, too.

What? Does promoting other bloggers to become popular sound a bit nuts? Does it make more sense to take care of A1 first, at your current level of thinking.

Actually, this is the type of thinking required to be a successful blogger. Most bloggers think only about promoting themselves to be popular bloggers. But blogging is a 2 way street. Thinking right side up reveals that promoting OTHER bloggers can be a way to make YOUR blog popular. Why? Promoting other bloggers builds your blogger buddy network. Making tons of blogging friends inspires blogging buddies to promote your blog. Influencing 10, 20 or 50 blogging buddies to promote your blog – through generously promoting these bloggers – makes your blog popular.

Thinking right side up is similar to thinking in reverse. If most bloggers appear to think and act in certain ways you think and act oppositely. Most fail. You succeed. For example, most bloggers fail by trying to write and publish viral blog posts every time they publish a post. I think and blog oppositely; I write simple, helpful blog posts to develop an expanded online presence. My Blogging From Paradise backlinks germinate within the blogging tips niche because I do simple, basic things generously. Virtually all of those viral post attempts gain little to no exposure because the complex, difficult actions offered stingily make no impact in the blogging tips niche.

Baseball Analogy

Thinking right side up means hitting singles consistently. Thinking the other way means trying to hit a grand slam every time with a wild swing. You whiff almost every time. Even if you knock one outside of the park it is only one grand slam; the effects wear off fast. Meanwhile, bloggers who consistently hit singles build cumulative success towards establishing a professional blogging career.

Think, feel and act the opposite way of how most bloggers think, feel and act if you want to succeed. Pay close attention to professional bloggers. Observe how pros behave far unlike almost all bloggers. Pros blog:

generously
patiently
persistently

while most blog stingily, impatiently and with little persistence.

Take Baby Steps to Change Your Mind

Shifting from thinking like a struggling blogger to a pro requires patience.

This is no small feat.

Be gentle with yourself to morph your mind. Take baby steps to gradually think more like a pro blogger and less like a struggling amateur. Think in terms of years not hours.

Pros think right side up habitually. Yet most practice patiently to do so.

Follow their lead to follow their results.

Walk before sprinting. Stop trying to write a viral blog post. Write and publish a helpful long form post. Set aside 3 hours to:

research
write
edit
publish

the post.

Think like a pro. Pros give themselves ample time to do the job effectively. Publishing a long form post – to generate organic traffic – means setting aside a few hours to write a detailed post the right way. Pros rush nothing. Amateurs tend to rush everything; thinking upside down makes it so.

Embrace this long-term process. I learn new things about my mind as a 17 year blogging veteran. Sometimes, upside-down thinking surfaces on a daily basis. The mental process never ends until one becomes enlightened. This is a nice way of saying that most bloggers need not worry about the process ending.

Wake Up Your Mind

I meditate daily to wake up my mind.

Consider following a mind training ritual daily to wake up your mind.

Meditating helps. Creating space between your thoughts reveals upside down thinking. People typically live reactive-style, unconsciously and identical to a robot even as most pride themselves on using free will. This arrogance costs most dearly. Mindless living leads to depression and struggles through various endeavors.

Sit for a bit on a daily basis to watch your mind.

Watching the mind wakes it up.

Awakening goads one to think right side up; just like professional bloggers do.