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Difficult circumstances.
Disappointment.
Uncomfortable business interactions.
Expectations that appear to have come up short.
How do you get through a bad blogging day?
Everyone goes through temporary but tough blogging stretches.
Even pros seem not immune to gliding through blogging resistance from time to time.
Having a system in place to deal with rough blogging times puts you on the straight and narrow sooner than later.
Blogging on the straight and narrow keeps you building a rock solid foundation for a professional blogging career.
Follow these steps to get through tough blogging times.
1: Hug the Hurt
I vividly recall feeling hurt more than a few times after seeing diminished blogging results with my online strategy.
I expected big business growth. But observing traffic and income metrics that appeared to be meager compared to my blogging expectations felt frustrating, disheartening and flat out depressing at times. No one avoids this deflating feeling save the rare few bloggers who harbor zero expectations.
Hug the hurt to face, feel and release the fear associated with the hurt. Getting through tough times involves expressing fears related to the tough times.
Most bloggers harbor money fears. Blogging patiently, intelligently and persistently for 12 months for a $100 pay year triggers deep, pulsating fears associated with money, poverty, starving, being homeless, getting sick and dying (no medical coverage) and a litany of unconscious and conscious terrors.
Face, feel, release and forgive these fears. Move the fear out of your mind. Do not deny fear. Do not resist fear. Feel it to get rid of it and to get rid of the hurt, deflated feeling, replacing dejection with hope.
Feeling hopeful, relaxed and poised nudges you in the right direction for brighter blogging days ahead.
2: Renew Your Patience By Observing Professional Bloggers During their Amateur Days
I cannot stress how critically important this step is because most bloggers panic, bail on a pro system and struggle endlessly for years.
For example, a blogger may feel a bit better after expressing fears to remove the self-hurt. Cool. But if you have not become patient by fully accepting the amateur stories of pros you will make rash decisions that repeat the cycle of struggle, failure and quitting.
In a way, lacking patience guarantees that one lives completely in their blogging past. Make a mistake. Lack patience. Make another mistake. Feel bad. Lack patience. Make the same mistake. Feel terrible, experience a bad blogging day and make a different mistake. Then…..quit.
Amateur bloggers who eventually go pro blogged patiently for years sometimes before the money arrived. Keep doing the disciplined things necessary to go pro. Do not panic and bail on doing disciplined things patiently.
Renew your blogging patience now by reading the stories of thriving pros who made pennies or zero dollars for a bit while publishing genuinely valuable, in-depth, thorough blog posts.
First, patiently lay a rock solid foundation for your blogging campaign. Stay the course by following pro bloggers. They did not allow a bad blogging day to derail their professional blogging career. None gives up at the drop of a hat. No pro quits because of a temporary, short blogging dip or valley.
Be patient by following these patient examples.
Get right back on the blogging horse by doing simple things patiently, persistently and generously.
Thrive by being as patient as a professional blogger.
3: Frame Bad Days as Being Temporary
A rough blogging day is temporary.
Depression surfaces when the mind judges a bad day to be a future bad month or bad year.
I know that following this tip requires some serious mind training. Goodness knows that I need to train my mind diligently to hop scotch seamlessly over temporary obstacles.
Training the mind is far worth the mental effort required. Accepting the temporary nature of bad blogging stretches moves you past heartache, stress, tension and even hopelessness quite quickly.
Imagine a difficult 24 hour blogging stretch. Perhaps a client stiffs you in terms of payment. Maybe monthly sales dropped dramatically. Google traffic seemed to die, too, within a particular 24 hour time frame.
Life is change.
All rough circumstances occur temporarily, not permanently.
Hug this basic truth to remove the sting from your bad blogging days.
Feel better by knowing that this too will pass.
4: Strategize Like a Professional
Almost all traffic and income problems arise from bloggers suffering through:
- little to no blog traffic and/or
- non-targeted blog traffic
Point blank guys; if you are not making money it almost always means you have not patiently published enough long form, detailed, highly targeted content to drive customers and clients to your blog.
Keep doing that even if nothing appears to be happening. Keep sticking to the basics to strategize like a professional blogger.
Drawing a heavy volume of highly targeted, quality blog traffic requires time, patience and a willingness to deeply trust in yourself and in the successful blogging process.
Do not compromise on this one. Think like a pro blogger by making pro blogger decisions during and after a bad blogging day.
Transparency Alert
The day I initially wrote this post was not a bad blogging day for me, per se, but I triggered and felt a series of highly uncomfortable emotions during that particular 24 hour time frame.
I guess in laymen’s terms, this means that various blogging factors unearthed a “I feel kinda terrible” type emotions that day.
I decided to write this post to get right back on the pro blogger horse by sharing my experience, giving my practical tips and by sticking to my full time blogging strategy to get me through the rough patch.
Following the prior 3 steps helped me reach the point of writing this post. Following this step guided me to blog like a pro even though I felt bad during that day.
Visualize your dream blogging life to focus heavily on the full time blogger process and to be less perturbed by bad blogging days……or to stick to laying a rock solid foundation for your future pro blogging career even when the ego voice in your mind tells you to give up, or to panic, bail and quit a smart pro blogging strategy.
5: Spot Positive Signs
Feeling crappy about life and blogging at times – being an unenlightened human being – leads me to shying away from the blogging world, temporarily.
But amid the urge to shy away, I notice loyal and new Blogging From Paradise readers repeatedly offering me glowing feedback concerning my blog posts and social media updates.
At times, your darkest blogging days seem to arrive being infused with the most positive, loving feedback in the exact moment when you seem to need it most.
Train your mind to see loving support offered as your insidious self doubt thoughts arise. Pay close attention to loyal fans who cheer you on even if the inner, egoic voice warns you about wasting your time. Notice the love. Realize that you are likely on the right track even though the fears in your mind try to scare you into taking the wrong track.
See the love to get through the fear.
Spot hope, possibility and promise on rough blogging days to put the day in your rear view window.
Conclusion
There you have it guys.
I wanted to give you a little personal primer for getting through bad blogging days.
Your Turn
How do you get through rough blogging patches?
What tips can you share for putting bad blogging days behind you?
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