Do You Sprint from Doing Messy Blogging Legwork? |

September 25, 2026 blogging tips 🕑 5 minutes read

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Blogging is fun and quite freeing.

But the activity also entails doing messy blogging legwork from time to time in order to lay a rock solid foundation for your blogging campaign.

I care not how sexy your life appears to be. Doing blogging grunt work is never sexy. I love blogging. But sometimes it feels tough to complete my blogging task.

Doesn’t it feel refreshing to hear a blogger speak honestly about doing the blogging work?

This ain’t all sunshine and roses, bloggers.

I generally enjoy writing and publishing this post. I also feel discomfort. My neck feels stiff, my back hurts and I want to watch some Netflix or Hulu.

But these temporarily messy acts form a rock solid foundation for success today, tomorrow and 10 years down the road. Seeing beyond the moment accelerates your blogging success. Bloggers with a vision overcome temporary discomfort with ease. Everyone else surrenders to heavy feelings.

Heavy feelings seem impossible to overcome now if you only see the tough leg work. Look beyond. See your dreams in vivid detail to be the blogger who does what it takes to reach your dreams.

Few see beyond now, today or tomorrow.

Most bloggers want instant gratification. Publish a blog post today. See instant traffic. Reap massive rewards tomorrow.

Yeah. Good luck with this approach. Ain’t gonna happen.

Reality greets these bloggers sooner than later. Overnight success does not exist. Overnight success never existed but deluded bloggers actually believe some secret, turn-key system for successful blogging remains guarded by top pros.

All established pros know that blogging shortcuts do not exist. Either you begin your blogging business now to form a strong blogging foundation or you look for quick riches. Quick money never arrives; most bloggers quit just as quickly. The money never shows up. Motivation gone, another deluded blogger bites the dust.

Slow Down

Slow down your mind. Even though blogging feels fun mostly, engaging in messy blogging legwork always seems to be part of the job. Messy blogging legwork means writing and publishing the post when you do not completely feel like writing and publishing the post.

Do not force blogging work because force negates. But never run away from doing the work either. In an imperfect world you cannot feel 100% always. I blog feeling less than inspired quite often. This is called “being a human being who does not feel 100% all the time.”

Perhaps commenting genuinely on 5-10 blogs from your niche today feels right but the ego tries like hell to dissuade you from commenting authentically, or even commenting at all. Why comment? Nobody reads blog comments anyway, right? Does any blogger even keep comments open these days? The negative ego voices seem deafening. How do you overcome these nasty little blogging demons dancing around in your dome?

Blogging Gets Tough Sometimes

Blogging feels like doing messy legwork because it is temporarily tough. But trusting your gut impels you to get the job done even if you feel crappy sometimes.

Simply frame messy blogging legwork as showing up for work when you do not feel like showing up for work. Pros in all walks of life show up on days pros feel not like showing up. Amateurs do not show up. Observe pros in any niche. Observe amateurs in every niche.

I blog inspired sometimes. Sometimes the work feels boring. Other times the work feels OK but not terribly inspired. Who feels good constantly? No one.

Pros Get the Work Done

Failures quit and pros put in the work and time. Pros look past excuses. Struggling bloggers see excuses as convenient road blocks.

Try not to slap mental handcuffs onto yourself. Get the work done. Do what it takes to become prolific. Accept change. Your feelings change many times daily. Bloggers are not immune from this basic law of life. Do the work even if it feels tough. Train your mind to think, feel and act like a pro blogger.

I cultivated the habit of being persistent, consistent and truly helpful over years. Developing the habit required me to get clear on practicing this skill, especially when the ego told me to do anything but blog. Blogging weeds out weak-willed bloggers quickly. Iron-willed bloggers become established pros but only by doing the messy legwork.

Leave Your Comfort Zone

Leave your comfort zone consistently. Spot blogging limiting beliefs. Become persistent. Be a consistent blogger. Be truly helpful even if your limiting beliefs attempt to pull you away from doing the blogging work. Never trust the negative voice in your mind. The negative voice has no idea what it’s talking about.

Ease through Resistance

Knife through resistance. Adopt this perspective; the drudge work is being truly helpful for folks who could definitely use your help. Thinking about helping fellow humans instantly changes hard, dreary, boring work to an opportunity for rendering generous service in genuine fashion. Change the words. Change the feeling. Change the perspective.

Serve Versus Trying to Self Serve

I try to help you versus seeking to grow my blogging bottom line. I think little about traffic and income metrics for me. I busy myself with publishing truly helpful content for you. Thinking this way compels me to get the blogging job done even if it feels like a drag here and there. Try it. Think outward. Extend your mind. Get past the blogging blues. Focus on being a helpful servant. Think less about your results. Think more about helping readers.

Conclusion

I am hardly a Blogging Buddha. I resist being genuinely helpful from time to time. But changing my mind immediately dissolves blogging-related resistance into a fun opportunity to help people. Folks reading this who need the message right now benefit from my willingness to nudge into discomfort.

That sounds good to me.