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I fired up my Facebook Page a few moments ago.
After running a query on blogging tips I saw a long list of pages.
I visited the first five results.
What do you think the most recent update was collectively?
2022.
Right now we are in 2026. I need to remind myself. Sometimes I live in the moment and forget the whole time and space thing; this is quantum humor.
4 years is a long time in the offline world.
4 years is a lifetime in the online world.
I know for a fact that checking blogs run by these individuals would almost certainly reveal a similar lag time.
Pretty much everyone becomes a blogging ghost save the few top bloggers in the world from their niche.
Why do so few bloggers stick with it for 18 years like me?
Why do most bloggers quit quickly?
Most bloggers do not value their blogs.
Stop De-Valuing Your Blog
Look closely at my Facebook foray from earlier today. Each of these individuals started a page to promote content related to their blogging niche.
But the last update was 2022.
Of course none of these bloggers value their blogs or their Facebook Page. No one gives time to what the individual does not value. Everyone gives time to what they do value. Understanding this basic law of life can change your life quickly.
Why would you turn your back on a website with 5 billion users?
You do not value your blog or the website or the potential to reach even a sliver of that global user base. By default, you value other ideas far more than you value your blog.
That’s okay. But don’t expect to become a full time blogger anytime soon if you value pretty much everything else over your blog.
Respect the Mirror Effect of Blogging
Blogging gives to you what you give to blogging. Valuing blogging deeply over other exploits positions you to become wildly successful over the years. Few bloggers deeply value with their blogs. Most look at it like some passing hobby. Others value Google immensely while putting their blog on the back burner.
The few who decide to value their blogs tend to reach the top for they get through all of the resistance each of us faces.
Valuing your blog is not an easy thing to do because unconsciously you do not value yourself for your creations. We all suffer from low self-esteem on an unconscious level. Consciously the clues are quite obvious; we blame the world or other people we think pin us down.
We victimize ourselves to people in our niche (who we think are better than us) but of course we take pot shots at them. Diving into your unconscious mind to feel these unpleasant emotions is not easy at all but it is possible. Nobody likes to feel horrible emotions. But on the other side of these dark energies, peace awaits you.
One symbolic form of that piece would be value in your blog deeply to the exclusion of everything else online. The moment you do that you put in the work consistently. You will never be a blogging ghost again. Nor will you post to social media streams as frequently as when the Haley’s Comet blows through.
Everyone Underestimates Their Blog
Everyone underestimates blogging in the beginning because they do not understand the sheer power of owning both your platform and the ability to publish helpful content without limits.
A few years back I beat out a billion dollar market company twice for one of their covered keywords on page one of Google. Is that enough power for you? Is that enough potential? A guy in gym clothes who publishes helpful content consistently and builds his network genuinely beat a company with 10,000 employees.
Not every one of those 10,000 employees worked on their SEO. Perhaps only a few worked within the marketing campaign. Yet here I am an individual blogger and here they are as a billion dollar market cap company with 10,000 employees.
These are the type of stories to drill into your skull until it seeps into the unconscious and roots out the garbage we all suffer from deep down there. You and I run away from it instead of stepping into the shadow and moving beyond it into the light.
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I’m not talking about reaching Heaven here guys. I mean moving beyond fear to Love or going beyond resistance to peace, happiness and freedom on a worldly level by blogging consistently.
Almost everybody in the world “gives something a shot that sounds like fun” before quitting pronto and scrambling back to survival mode. Blogging ghosts are common. A few wise and brave individuals decide to journey into their mind to get rid of the patterns creating this depressing human experience.
Peep the Fruits of Blogging
Check out the post I published yesterday. I spent the morning hiking in the High Sierras of California. Blogging consistently opens the door to this kind of life. Even if you have no desire to travel this has to be some type of motivator to you.
You can do amazing things through blogging but you have to actually value it.
Everyone has to put in the work consistently before going pro.
Becoming a blogging ghost 👻 is not part of this process.
You can’t be here today and gone tomorrow. Everyone will forget you.
Nor can you post once a year or once every 4 years or once every 6 years. Before you assume this to be ridiculous, fire up your Facebook and look at some of the pages that pop up on querying a specific keyword.
Opportunities await for bloggers who value their websites. Marketing channels wait to be fed practical content which sends users directly to your blog and online business.
What are you waiting for?
Nobody else will do the work for you.
I can point you in a successful direction with a post like this.
But you have to read it and put my guidance into action consistently to achieve whatever success looks like for you.
I think you’re up to it.
I believe in you.