Ke Bang Area Vietnam
Should I publish this post?
Who will read it?
Why would anyone read my blog?
Especially with AI and all, and Jemini, Chat PGT, and the 1’s and 0’s that most bloggers seem to fear, why in the heck would I bother with blogging? (I misspell to bust AI’s balls!)
I have heard it all, folks. I began blogging in 2008. Imagine the feedback that popped up in my inbox over the years.
But forget about external feedback from other meat suits, for a minute.
What about the crap festering in my mind over the years?
I assure you on a genuine level that limiting beliefs slayed me – and my blog – for vast stretches of time. I even recall being afraid to publish content consistently for the fear of slamming into hosting issues. I feared that my hosting solution could not handle a heavy traffic volume. I shuddered in my blogging boots because how many folks could hang out on Blogging From Paradise Dot Com before the site crashed?
THAT WOULD BE EMBARRASSING!!!
Being addled with those fears, I did the incredibly intelligent thing of holding back on my publishing. Maybe I would never drive heavy, targeted traffic, consistent blogging income and great online success. But at least I did not need to deal with the embarrassment of crashing my blog. Nobody would complain about my blog. No one would offer negative feedback about my user experience. Of course this would feel like a blessed relief, right?
Fear Forces You to Think Upside Down
At various stages, fear ruled my blogging strategy.
I thought upside down because fear called the shots.
I feared events seemingly triggered by becoming a successful blogger, built my blog based on those fears, avoided success by thinking upside down, felt relieved about not triggering the success-related fears and struggled miserably.
In a nutshell, the upside down thinking process is fucking nuts.
You sacrifice success, freedom and fulfillment to avoid facing a few measly fears.
Yet this insane process unfolds millions of times. My inbox proves it. Bloggers struggle horribly because fear in the mind calls the blogging shots. Bloggers fear something, move in the opposite direction versus stepping through the fear, struggle, fail and quit.
I see this painfully common process unfold daily. I knifed through it myself. I still need to guard against it.
How Do You Figure this One Out?
Sit in a quiet room.
Ask yourself how much fear dictates your blogging plan.
Look honestly. Never run from the truth. Be honest with your emotions.
Face, feel and let go of fear.
Move in the opposite direction.
How does this look?
Practical Example
I feel intimately aware of a personal fear: I fear that publishing content short of 1200 words means a woefully short shelf life and pretty much instant death for the pathetic, pitiful post.
I could find dozens of reasons to prove the “truth” of this fear. Google verifies it. Pro bloggers verify it. I see no shortage of established pros who back long term content and give short content the cold shoulder. I even do it myself.
Yet:
- it IS fear
- some pros went pro with short form content
- conquering fear is always the way to go
I will publish this post well short of 1200 words based on:
- my intuition
- conquering fear
- adding contrast to my blogging strategy
Even though I predominantly publish long form content it intuitively feels like some of you need to:
- hear
- process
- understand
- embody
this short and sweet blogging message.
Dissolving this fear by tapping the “publish” button for a short-ish post emboldens me to be a little less fearful and a wee bit more fearless for future blogging activities.
This helps me.
This helps you.
Most importantly, I do not spread the fear virus quite as liberally, going forward, at least.
This Ain’t Easy but Always Liberates
Admittedly, this world runs on fear.
Most blogging strategies seem rooted in various forms of scarcity.
Seeing advice from 100’s of pros who preach scarcity-based blogging due to intimately personal fears feels confusing then convincing.
I found it odd that most blogging guidance came from fear. But I figured that if most bloggers did it then the guidance had to be wise. People usually follow the herd. I became prone to this damaging practice for some stretches in the online world.
Challenging my thinking to free myself partially from “fear-based herd thinking” did not feel comfortable.
But at least I did enough inner work to blog primarily from abundance not scarcity.
*My* blogging abundantly goads you to blog a bit more abundantly.
Ideas Increase by Being Given Away Not Hoarded
Re-read the bold text above.
Ideas multiply by being given away.
Look closely at this blog post. I shared a few core ideas for questioning fear-based blogging strategies. As each blogger mind comes across these ideas, the ideas multiply because migrating from my mind to your mind extends the concepts.
Ummm…..who loses?
No one!
Yet if I blogged from the fear of scarcity I would worry about how much:
- traffic
- income
I would potentially get by publishing this blog post.
Fearing not getting enough in return – losing traffic and losing income –Â I would have said to myself:
“Screw publishing this sucker. I fear that since I will not GET enough in return I will not GIVE ideas to the bloggers to be multiplied in their minds, to empower them and to promote my collective blogging success.”
I would have followed my fear-based advice, cut myself off at the blogging knees and skipped out on amplifying my success and reach by *not* publishing the post.
Why?
I would have surrendered to fear in my mind.
Conclusion
Challenge everything fear-based in your mind.
Look closely at how scarcity motivates your blogging strategy.
Face, feel and release fears.
Blog predominantly from abundance.
Ideas multiply from being given away not from being guarded, hoarded and protected viciously.
The prior sentence ain’t gonna be a short and pithy meme on the marketing-speak circuit.
But at least you know how to identify, conquer and look past fear to blog abundantly and to succeed.
