Opotiki New Zealand
Before we dive into this post I want you to understand one idea.
I do not intend to convey the message that hard work brings success.
If that were true then any hard worker would become incredibly wealthy, free and contended on a worldly level.
You and I know; this is not the case. Look around for a few moments. How many hard workers who come from straining, striving and pushing big-time become wealthy, free and feel 100% fulfilled?
Yeah; that’s what I thought. 🙂
Take the spirit of this post to be that easing into discomfort to do simple things consistently amplifies peace of mind and worldly blogging success. But you do need to keep easing into discomfort or you trend back in the direction of blogging failure. I want that to be the message here.
The Turnaround
Bloggers often experience some modest or even mild success but turn around the moment that pressing on the accelerator is the answer.
The excuses may vary.
Life seems to intervene. Maybe blogging seems like too much work when you enjoy some worldly success but need to level up to accelerate traffic and profits. Work eats into ya free time, ya know? Few choose to give up what holds them back in favor of what moves one forward. Humans are odd.
Perhaps you fear what increased success will appear to do to your identity. Will family and friends who were comfortable and familiar with the old you seem as loving and accepting with the new, successful you? This is an insidiously tricky one to identify. Most bloggers fear success secretly but seem to fear failure on the surface level. Identity loss – and special relationship loss – is an unconscious but powerful driver with this one.
Why do you turn around if greater blogging success beckons on the path forward?
Moving forward accelerates your blogging success. But moving backward by turning around has the opposite effect. How can you succeed by moving back toward failure? I know that moving forward outside of your comfort zone feels scary. Facing fear feels rough. Doing new things like taking on increased responsibility seems overwhelming at first.
However, turning away from success points you toward failure by default. Everything is in flux. You choose the direction.
Why Regress?
Why would you move backwards into failure with distractions? Some bloggers experience a tiny bit of success but immediately spend the remainder of their day watching YouTube or Netflix. I’m not talking about enjoying a bit of light entertainment for fun but mindless consumption for many hours on a daily basis.
How can you ever grow your blogging campaign into something meaningful if you give most daily attention and energy to distracting yourself with:
– Netflix?
– YouTube?
– food?
– gossip?
Either you grow or regress. No in between exists, even if you appear to be stuck in a blogging holding pattern. Decide to grow no matter how scary growth seems to be. Growing by moving forward is the only sane choice. Regressing by moving backwards is not sane at all. In the world it appears to be normal since most do it. But always remember that the world is largely insane because the predominant thought pattern is fear which always leads to nonsensical actions.
Freedom Loss?
People often fear taking on greater responsibility for some fear of losing freedom. But one can only gain freedom by being more responsible because helping more people allows you to become a more successful blogger. Temporarily, you may appear to give up some free time offline to work more blogging hours but becoming a more successful blogger allows you to enjoy more time offline over the long haul.
Understand What Sacrifice Means
Release any idea of sacrifice to understand that increasing your blogging responsibilities feels good because being truly helpful is a root cause of happiness. Feeling good about helping more people frees you from blogging over the long haul because passive success finds generous, persistent, patient bloggers who take on the greatest responsibility for a long period of time. The responsibility you accept now frees you from time and location down the road as your content-assets mature. Does that sound like a painful sacrifice? What do you really give up? What do you really get?
Move forward by shouldering more blogging responsibility. Never move backwards by trying to lessen your blogging responsibilities. Of course, outsourcing a high volume of blogging work is one way to work less and less while experiencing greater blogging success. But most bloggers do not have the budget or risk tolerance to walk that blogging path. If you sit in that lot, begin with some old fashioned mind training.
Begin thinking right side up versus thinking upside down. Step away from the herd to experience a life quite unlike the herd.
Move toward success one small blogging step at a time.
Spot Self-Sabotage
Beware if the mind tries to pull you backwards just as you edge closer to blogging success. Observe self-sabotage. See thought patterns mired in fear, designed to sprint from success back into the rotting cocoon of comfort and failure.
Nobody said blogging would be easy but the freedom and fun of helping people is worth periodic discomfort.
Move forward guys.
Edge outside of your comfort zone toward increased blogging freedom.
Give yourself time to work out the blogging kinks arising as you wade toward increased blogging success.
Level up a tiny bit to slowly but surely free yourself from limiting beliefs.
Conclusion
Be gentle with yourself as you go about this freeing process.
Never hold yourself to unrealistic expectations.
I lit the flame under your rump a tiny bit with some motivation.
But journeying within to favor success and the odd moment of severe discomfort over failure and comfort requires strong mental diligence.
Failure momentum seems strong in most minds.
Changing that mojo requires mental effort, time, patience and a heaping dose of loving-kindness, too.
