Hua Hin Thailand
Slamming into blogging stress is inevitable.
Time scarcity plaguing you. Nasty critics emerging from the wood work. Putting in disciplined work yet seeing almost no statistical growth.
At least for those who have not attained enlightenment – aka everyone reading this post including me – experiencing stress happens. Fear worms its way into blogging, here and there, at least.
Accepting the inevitable makes sense. Setting up a plan to handle stress seems logical to me.
But bloggers usually do not accept stress or plan for it. Most plow forward through stressful emotions like a rhino on the warpath.
Blogging Bull in a China Shop?
Do you try to slam through blogging stress like a bull in a china shop?
Or do you remain present with fear?
Do you intend to fight through stress?
Or do you want to outwork stress? Do you want to work harder and harder to leave stress in the rear view mirror? Do you intend to outrun stress? Can you outrun blogging stress?
Most bloggers try to outwit or outwork stress. Putting your head down and charging forward seems like the best approach because folks around you tend to bull forward through stressful emotions. Goodness knows I tend to do this from time to time. But I have largely learned my lesson. Blogging – and life – taught me without sparing the rod.
Hard Work Never Beats Stress Permanently
Newsflash; no matter how hard, long or strained you work you cannot out lap blogging stress. No amount of work distances you from fear in your mind. Fear in mind completely supplies blogging stress. Every blogging problem in mind is stress manifest. Grasp this basic truth. Face the fear. Feel the fear. Let go of stress. No blogger gets over what remains in them. Think; fear in mind supplies stress with its precious fuel. No fear = no stress. Working hard to avoid stress results in the fear-stress sticking around in your mind. Worry not; fear-stress will surface later until you face, feel and look past it.
Right now, I feel some stress because I appear to be up against the clock. I am settling in to my new travel location. Settling in means exploring a ton for this hiking fool. Exploring heaps means less time for blogging. I wrote the post in part because blogging stress surfaced in the mind. Feeling the emotions goaded me to write the post because being with the sensations reminds me to remind you that everything is in your mind.
Running Out of Time
I appear to feel stressed because time feels fleeting. In reality, I am afraid to run out of time. Facing, feeling and releasing the fear of time loss is the direct way to be with the stress. Does this feel unpleasant? Yes. But already, feeling the fear of time loss seems to be dissolving the stress.
Dissolving the stress allows me to slow down and write the blog post. Slowing down to write the post lets me best help you; plus the process feels more peaceful than plowing through my emotions. Wait. Feel. Be with discomfort. Proceed. Defeat the fear of time loss. Dissolve the stress associated with this dastardly foe. Works like a charm. Try it.
Stress Destroys the Quality of Your Work
Attempting to blog through stress yields low-quality work. No one does their best work under stress because no one does their best work being heavily influenced by fear. Fear makes you do mindless stuff. Scared bloggers forget to add critical details to work. Fear makes you hurry forward in a rush to do a less than effective job.
For example, if I wrote this post under heavy duress I’d shovel out 500 words of shit-drivel before publishing the post. 500 weak, unhelpful words helps no one. Being motivated by stress manifests stress-inducing results.
Forgive Your Stress
Face, feel and release fears fueling blogging stress. Feel better. Feel less stressed. Do a better job.
Be with stressed energies to think, feel and blog clearly. 10 minutes into writing this post I already feel better. Feeling better lets me write more clearly. Writing more clearly lets me hit the mark as far as publishing helpful content with details and links to benefit us.
Everything changed the moment I faced, felt and released fears concerning my blogging stress.
Do not charge forward mindlessly. Mindless blogging only leads to more stress, resistance and failure. Pull back for a moment. Take a deep breath. Relax. Chill. Feel whatever seems to bother you. Let it go after feeling the wicked little energies.
From there, blogging stress rolls off of you like water off of a duck’s butt. All changes as you move forward from a serene, relaxed vibe.
Conclusion
Stress serves no one.
Stress consumes energy like a mental vampire.
Stop plowing through blogging stress.
Stop. Wait. Feel fear in the mind fueling your stressors. Go ahead. Wait for it.
Sit with discomfort.
Let it go.
Proceed from an increasingly peaceful, assured state of mind.
Do your best blogging work by feeling relaxed.
Picture dropping an aircraft carrier into a typhoon; no one notices amidst the chaos. That’s stress. Chaotic. Frenetic. Frenzied.
Imagine dropping the tiniest pebble in a still pond. Gentle waves lap into Infinity, or the boundaries of the lake. Nothing stops the waves which travel far and wide. That’s peaceful, still, serene blogging.
Consider the above analogies before you plow through blogging stress today.
Still minds have no limits.
