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Do you have a plug-in for that?
What can ai do for you?
How can you avoid putting in blogging work? What is the quickest way? What shortcut can you take in order to succeed as a blogger?
How can you go pro quickly? How can you go pro easily? What types of blog posts bring the greatest success in the shortest amount of time?
I get it; time seems scarce. You and I have little time to spare. Why not look for the blogging shortcut? Why not scour the cyber world for the plug-in, bot or app that does the work for you to free your attention and energy for:
- stock-piling blogging scrilla like Scrooge McDuck?
- spending blogging scrilla like Tony Stark?
I totally understand why you want to hand off the work because I’ve been working on my blogging career for 14 years. Blogging feels frustrating sometimes. Blogging also feels challenging. At every turn, resistance awaits.
In one moment, freedom appears to be yours. Open path! Like an airport runway, everything expands beautifully for you.
But in the next moment, resistance arises. Obstacles pop up. Someone does something to test your patience. Others make mistakes. Some do bone-headed things. Critics come out of the blogging wood work.
Why do people behave as they do when blogging success appeared to come together so beautifully?
Why do people ruin it?
Why do obstacles arise?
Taking short cuts seems like the easy way around the blogging obstacles.
But unless you put in blogging work you skip necessary success steps.
Unless you take the long way you cannot thrive.
If you try to avoid the work you pass over the very steps you need to take in order to free yourself through blogging.
Traffic and income respond only to blogging work. Skipping the work skips the income too, similar to taking a day off from your job and not receiving hourly wages for the day.
If you resist doing the work you will never get paid.
Reality Check
I removed the SEO plug-in from my blog a few moments ago.
After blogging for 14 years I fully realized that even though plug-ins can complement SEO strategies the only way to rank regularly is to:
- practice writing for years
- publish detailed content
- publish targeted content
- build relationships promoting organic backlinks
Every single Blogging From Paradise post that ever ranked scored a 30 to 40 according to various plug-ins. Each ranking post showed up red.
I finally realized that I ranked posts by giving NO THOUGHT to what a plug-in judges to be important as far as ranking factors.
Hey; plug-in creators know their stuff but not my mind, talents, skills, intuition or my blogging network. I believe each is smart, SEO-competent and quite helpful for bloggers who resonate with using plug-ins. But I had to put in blogging work for a long time to rank on Google. Truthfully, I barely tried to rank posts on Google because my friend network and content expands the Blogging From Paradise reach.
A plug-in cannot do the blogging grunt work for you; only you can do the blogging grunt work.
ai cannot do blogging grunt work for you; only you can.
No thing, or no one, outside of you can do the work to help you succeed.
Only you can do the blogging work in order to thrive.
But…..
Do You Deeply Fear Doing the Blogging Work?
I noticed something recently about my mindset.
One part fears doing the blogging work in terms of doing genuine outreach. I engage in genuine outreach. But a part of my mind fears putting in super long hours from time to time to build connections. Hey; I tell it like it is. No sense horse shitting you.
Even though I’ve blogged for quite a long time I still uncover fears from time to time. Fearing freedom loss is one such fear. The mind fears that working more to get tasks done in order to succeed impinges on freedom I’d seemingly experience offline as I circle the globe.
Forgiving the fear to put in the freeing work is the way through the mental block.
Guys; I wish a magic remedy existed to instantly reveal your fear of blogging work to you but good, old fashioned, mind observation is the direct way to unearth, feel and release this fear.
Forgiving the fear hurls you forward into doing the blogging work.
Work Requires Patience to Trigger Various Work-Related Fears
Working patiently slowly reveals various work-related fears.
Proceeding further along your blogging career exposes work-fears in the mind that appeared to hold you back.
For example, the more patiently one works at blogging the individual slowly sees:
- fears related to interacting with, communicating with and working with clients, customers, readers and fellow bloggers
- fears related to losing your identity, losing contact with family members (or no longer fitting in to their box-definition of you…pissing them off) and general rejection from people who liked you as the pre-blogger person but not as the blogger person
- fears related to increased success, greater responsibility and expanded freedom; the mind often fears success more deeply than failure for success unearths highly uncomfortable emotions related to worthiness, deserving and a general self-hate
- fears related to wasting time, failure and hopelessness
- fears related to being criticized
- fears related to receiving increased blogging exposure and fraud syndrome
The fears slowly but surely arise as you blog mindfully for a sustained period of time.
Successful Blog or Successful Blogger?
Bloggers who fear doing blogging work sometimes ask about how to build a successful blog.
Note the clever projection of personal responsibility onto the blog. In one moment, the work-resistant blogger gives responsibility to an inanimate object.
Imagine if a carpenter asked what it takes to build a successful hammer?
Never confuse tools with the human being who practices diligently with the tools to become successful. As the human BEING bleeds blogging success the natural effect seems to be a successful blog.
Be careful about projecting responsibility onto a blog because doing so may suggest a pulsating distaste for doing the blogging work.
How to Conquer this Fear
Choose to blog mainly for fun to make the work the reward. Making blogging work the chief reward dissipates fear associated with the work.
Invest in blogging courses and blogging eBooks. Blogging resources guide you through the inevitable fears all bloggers face on their journey. Online courses and guides lay out practical steps to follow in the proper setting to nudge you forward through:
- obstacles
- mental blocks
- resistance
- heaviness
arising in the mind of all bloggers.
Help fellow bloggers with few if any expectations. Move the focus from what you fear to do work-wise to what you love to do work-wise for other bloggers.
Conclusion
Do you fear doing the blogging work?
If the answer is a big, fat “YES” just be honest about the slug-like pining or abject terror arising in both the conscious and unconscious mind.
Follow the practical tips above to free yourself.
Expand your blogging success by purging fears related to doing the blogging work.
