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(Updated 3-3-2023)
Blogging confuses many aspiring bloggers.
Googling a few select key words yields different answers to one common question:
Is blogging easy to do?
Rather than tell you that blogging is easy or hard as a blanket declaration I intend to explain the various blogging stages of:
- uncomfortable
- less uncomfortable
- largely easy
Most bloggers desire a cut and dry answer to the “easy” question. If blogging seems easy to do perhaps some “easy-street” bloggers may give it a shot.
But if blogging seems hard most prefer to not try blogging at all. Why would people who seek the love of ease mess with something not at all easy to do?
Blogging is neither easy not hard. Like developing any skill, at first it feels highly uncomfortable but gradually becomes easier with your diligent practice.
Picture any skill you developed in the past. Practicing the discipline felt uncomfortable at first. But working diligently made the skill seem less uncomfortable. Eventually the skill became largely easy to execute.
Picture any skill you developed in the past. Practicing the discipline felt uncomfortable at first. But working diligently made the skill seem less uncomfortable. Eventually the skill became largely easy to execute. Click To Tweet
One factor influences the organic progression: you. Commit fully to blogging; blogging commits to you.
See blogging like a mirror. If you work at blogging then this gig works nicely for you.
But the working process involves feeling uncomfortable emotions before running a blog seems easy.
Before discussing the progression of I want to help you let go the concepts of “difficult” or “hard” to expand your success consciousness.
Uncomfortable Versus Hard or Difficult
New bloggers make the common error of labelling blogging as being hard or difficult. But blogging is not hard or difficult for beginner bloggers. Attempting to bench press 500 pounds if you never weight trained is hard, difficult or flat out impossible due to the extreme physical exertion required to achieve this feat.
Blogging never requires extreme physical exertion but feels uncomfortable for beginners because:
- blogging involves developing multiple skills like writing, networking and monetizing effectively
- tender inner weaknesses arise when you do anything new
- blogging demands a full time work commitment well before a full time income manifests in your bank account
Facing, feeling and releasing fears triggered during the online journey does not feel easy but never confuse this emotion with blogging being a hard task requiring severe physical exertion.
Blogging is uncomfortable for new bloggers but anyone can do uncomfortable things.
During challenging beginner blogger days you also feel joy, freedom and happiness as your sense of accomplishment expands.
Set Realistic Expectations
Put aside visions of easy money as a beginner. Cast away delusions of newbie blog traffic on auto pilot.
Blogging becomes easier if you blog for a long time.
Ground yourself in reality. Allow a sense of relief to wash over your being. Harboring realistic expectations removes pressure from your mind.
Nobody told me what to expect from blogging. I deluded myself, harbored grandiose expectations and struggled mightily until I figured out that running a blog involved more than writing blog posts.
Slow down. Calm down. Set the most modest goals at the beginning. Be realistic. Establish few expectations to focus mainly on learning and practicing how to blog successfully.
Blogging Feels Uncomfortable and Somewhat Enjoyable
Blogging is not easy to do for new bloggers because no one seamlessly masters being a:
- content creator
- genuine networker
- seasoned entrepreneur
with a few hours’ worth of blogging experience.
Every blogger new to the online game feels some discomfort upon learning and practicing new skills for the first few times.
But facing discomfort does not make blogging hard, difficult or highly impossible. Differentiate between embracing uncomfortable feelings and facing some Herculean task to adopt the right frame of mind as a beginner. Seeing the clear difference between discomfort and taxing tasks removes a heaviness from your emotions. Find this difference to also enjoy aspects of your new blogger days.
Wading through uncomfortable emotions becomes easier if you blog for fun and freeing reasons. Perhaps you fear publishing your first blog post for being criticized. Blogging primarily for fun, freeing reasons goads you to publish the post. Freedom beats fear. Fun beats discomfort. Let freedom guide you through beginner fears to ease through uncomfortable emotions.
Do not trust any blogger who professes blogging to be easy to do as a newbie because either the individual lies or invests a decent amount of money to entirely outsource the blogging process. Spending thousands each month to hire highly skilled writers who publish SEO-optimized content may drive a steady volume of targeted blog traffic fairly easily but monetizing does not come easily for any new blogger. Credibility flows to generous, patient and persistent bloggers. No new blogger can buy credibility quickly even with a large team of skilled writers working for them.
Good things require time and generous service. Fall in love with the process. Have fun helping people. Enjoy expressing yourself. Taste some sweet with your newbie blogger sour.
Blogging Feels Less Uncomfortable and Quite Enjoyable
Working for a sustained period of time makes blogging less uncomfortable and quite enjoyable. All of your practice seems to be paying off because skilled bloggers blog with increasing comfort, ease and enjoyment.
But blogging is not easy to do at this middle stage. Barriers to ease surface as you edge deeper into the ring of blogging fear.
Imagine your first negative blog comment. Picture your first 1-star review. Visualize your first genuinely unhappy client. Feeling emotions triggered during each circumstance feels fairly uncomfortable.
Few humans enjoy being roasted with a 1-star eBook review. However, blogging feels fun to do most of the time because now you seem to be:
- driving traffic
- gradually boosting profits
- writing and publishing long form blog posts fairly easily sometimes
- networking effectively
Think of this middle point as being the gateway between not easy and largely easy.
Some bloggers reach this point but most quit because the majority assumed it’d be largely easy by this point.
Edge beyond this mile marker. Hug discomfort to reach the largely easy stage.
Largely Easy
Blogging becomes easy to do most of the time for a small percentage of bloggers who spend many hours spanning years mastering the skill known as blogging.
Few reach this point because fear shakes them out.
For example, completing rewriting, SEO-optimizing and updating this old blog post required an easy 2 hours of work for me now. But I faced, felt and released many uncomfortable fears regarding blogging since my career began 14 years ago.
Seasoned veterans frame blogging as easy to do because established pros give years to mastering various skills. Observe any charismatic pro broadcasting live on Facebook. Do you notice how they effortlessly offer a storehouse of blogging knowledge related to their niche spontaneously for 30-60 minutes? 60 minutes of easy work now required many years’ worth of blogging practice.
Anyone who makes blogging look easy practiced for a long time to reach that point of seeming effortlessness.
Conclusion
Knowing the progression from uncomfortable to largely easy makes your expectations realistic.
Anyone who appears to make blogging look easy worked diligently to reach that point.
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