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Blogging feels promising and scary for beginners.
New bloggers usually see potential freedom combined with a myriad of problems.
How do you succeed? Who should you trust? What does it take to become a professional blogger? How about time frames for becoming successful?
Sure you can taste the sweet freedom of circling the globe in your mind. Maybe you envision working from home to spend more time with your family. Perhaps you just want to open a side income channel to boost your savings.
The maelstrom of emotions overwhelms most new bloggers. Most quit fast. Others quit after a few years. Rare is the blogger who sees the journey through to becoming a professional blogger but only because few bloggers start blogging the right way.
Getting through your first 6-12 months is critical to your long term blogging career. Big challenges greet new bloggers because blogging feels quite unlike any prior exploits in many regards. Knifing through each challenge propels you forward toward increased success.
Consider this New Blogger Analogy
Shoutout to Paul at Sidegains for giving me the idea to write this post.
I am mildly obsessed with Bigfoot……..
Most of society believes the large, hairy humanoid to be a joke, hoax or ridiculous figment of hillbilly imaginations. Unfortunately for these folks, the truth will soon come out. 10,000 to 20,000 witness accounts online – YouTube filled with ’em – from decent, credible, honest folks along with a good 50 to 100 eye-popping videos prove Sasquatch are as real as deer, squirrels, or birds, for that matter. My wife Kelli and I had our own particularly vivid encounter in the Adirondacks proving without a doubt how the forest people are as real as human people.
Anyway, Bigfoot hunts and consumes deer and elk, along with enjoying fruits and the like. Hunters often speak of Sasquatch herding deer into a kill zone where they break its legs, break its neck and consume either the innards or the entire deer.
Months 6-12 of your blogging career is YOUR kill zone. Traffic and money outcomes are the 8 foot tall, 600 pound, 5 feet wide at the shoulder Bigfoot, waiting to kill you the split second you allow your fear and panic to dominate your love and fun, blogging-wise. Most beginner bloggers quit during this uncomfortable time frame for fear of not seeing any traffic and profits.
There’s something important to remember here. The “kill zone” time frame is really just fear in your ego-mind attempting to derail you through the habit of self-sabotage. Panic, doubt and all manner of fear arise from time to time during this stretch. Your job during nascent blogger days is to face, feel and forgive each fear in order to carry on with a sound blogging strategy to lay a solid foundation for your blog.
Let’s get you through this challenging time.
Blog 90% for Passion-Love-Fun
Every blogger who quits during their first 6-12 months does so for fearing numbers on a screen. Bloggers fear not seeing any traffic and profits returns. Quitting follows.
Every blogger who gets through this period AND becomes an established, pro blogger does so by mainly blogging their passion-fun-love-joy. Why? Work – blogging – is the reward. You already have your reward if work-fun is the main outcome.
Money and traffic feel like extras or bonuses. You won’t quit because you don’t see your bonus and you fear not inanimate numbers on a screen. Blog mainly for fun to get through this critical period and to develop the trust, confidence and peace of mind you need to make this a full time gig.
Enjoy helping people through blogging to access a limitless inner driver. If the work of helping people is the reward you will not quit blogging.
Follow 1-2 Blogging Tips Mentors and Invest in their Courses
Most new bloggers have no idea what they are doing – they never blogged before – but dive into blogging, winging it, never consulting pros, never learning how to blog, never following sound advice.
Of course you will fail.
Imagine trying to be a doctor and skipping med school? Good luck. Imagine trying to be a successful blogger and skipping blogging school? Good luck. Beginning blogging by buying your domain and hosting seems easy but this does not mean blogging is easy.
Blogging is fun and freeing but challenging to new bloggers. Follow a few blogging tips focused mentors who teach you how to blog the right way from day 1 of your blogging career.
Learning how to blog the right way from pros gives you confidence during months 6-12 of your campaign.
Even as numbers fluctuate and success seems to slowly but surely come together you will have full faith in the advice of pro blogging mentors who teach you how to blog the right way through their:
- blogs
- coaching
- consulting
- courses
- eBooks
Spend 30 Minutes or More Daily on Managing Your Energy Aka Emotional Intelligence
Blogging is mindset.
Blogging is emotional intelligence.
Strengthen your mind to coast through the shaky early months of your blogging career.
Some ideas:
- meditate
- do Kriya yoga
- do yin yoga
- engage in power walking
- read and apply A Course in Miracles
Strong minded bloggers succeed. Everyone else struggles, fails and quits. All manner of fears arising early during your online career because your limiting beliefs will try to convince you to quit.
Strengthen your mind through daily training. Manage your energy to dissolve your fears. Increase your emotional intelligence to glide through sometimes bumpy beginner blogger days.
Conclusion
Blog mainly for fun to find an inexhaustible energy source flowing from within.
Be a confident new blogger by following pro advice.
Strengthen your mind to ride out the early day blogging bumps.
Get through months 6-12 to build a rock solid foundation for your blogging campaign.
Your Turn
How did you get through your early blogging days?
What tips can you add to this list?
