Harrods, London
Successful bloggers take the next blogging step.
Imagine reaching out to a blogger on Twitter. After @replying to the individual you receive no response.
Failing bloggers give up at this point. Laziness or doubtfulness goad failing bloggers into giving up at slight resistance.
This tricky form of self-sabotage sneakily pollutes the mind. Scared bloggers clinging to fear assume this before tweeting at fellow bloggers:
“Well….the blogger probably will not respond anyway….here goes nothing.”
When the blogger does not reply after one social media contact most bloggers take no more steps to connect and simply quit on the attempt.
Successful bloggers take the next step in intelligent fashion.
What would that be?
Reach out to the blogger via the website that the blogger owns. No blogger owns Twitter. But bloggers do own their blogs.
As obvious as this sounds, you’d be stunned at how most bloggers never take the next intelligent step to bond with fellow bloggers. Many complain about some pro blogger not replying to them on Twitter. Few display the success consciousness to take the next step.
Success Consciousness
As a rule, professional bloggers are:
- success conscious
- intelligent
- tenaciously persistent
For example, a budding successful blogger who did not get an @reply or DM from me quickly visits my blog, clicks on my contact page and publishes a comment to be read by yours truly.
Wise, new bloggers go the extra blogging mile to read a few Blogging From Paradise posts, to publish genuine comments in response to the posts and to retweet said posts.
However harsh this sounds, pretty much everyone else with more of a failure consciousness writes me off, not even considering the possibility that the best way to get their message read is to contact me through the website that I own.
Captain Obvious? Nah….
Success conscious, clear-thinking bloggers believe that following the above advice is quite obvious. Thinking like a success even well before experiencing worldly success feels normal and quite natural to this crowd.
But failure conscious bloggers literally block these seemingly obvious ideas due to fear sitting in their minds: fear repels successful ideas and scares one into failure-inducing actions. Failure conscious bloggers blame others (it is his fault for not replying), make less intelligent decisions (let me try to reach him once on a site that he doesn’t own instead of reaching him via the contact page on the site he does own) and largely think only about themselves not others (I prefer to use Twitter for communication and hate using blog contact pages).
Taking the next blogging step promotes your success.
Refusing to take the next blogging step promotes your failure.
You choose.
Going the Extra Blogging Mile
I blogged once about walking the extra blogging mile.
Unless you follow professional blogger guidance you rarely if ever know what steps to take and where to take the steps in order to succeed.
First, follow pro bloggers. Allow leaders to guide you.
Learn from the best to know the way.
Read their blog posts. Invest in their blogging courses. Buy their blogging eBooks. Take their knowledge, use it and benefit from thinking, feeling and acting like a professional blogger.
From there, train your mind to take the extra blogging step most skip. Review the example above. Most give up after a tweet or DM goes unanswered. Wise bloggers take the extra step by reaching bloggers via their website contact form, even if doing so feels uncomfortable to you. The ego may claim; reaching out to bloggers via their contact form is too much work, or, is not what you do, or, is for suckers who lack posture. Ignore the voice of the ego unless you enjoy struggling, failing and quitting as a blogger.
Think Big
Walking the extra mile involves reaching out to many bloggers via their website contact forms to offer assistance.
Think big to train your mind to take the extra blogging step.
Symbolically, many steps go into walking a full mile but from an actual work perspective you have to do far less than you assume. Why? Few take the extra steps. Far fewer walk the extra mile. The rare few who do stand out brilliantly. Standing out brilliantly positions you to succeed.
For example, for the 100 bloggers who complain about some blogger not replying to them on Twitter the one who thinks big and reaches out via contact form makes a good blogging friend. Both promote their collective success via a prospering collaboration. What did it take? 10 seconds of work by visiting a blog contact page and submitting a message.
Meanwhile, 99 out of 100 bloggers on Twitter struggle and fail by NOT taking the extra step through doing 10 seconds of extra blogging work.
Do you see how doing just a tiny bit of blogging work makes you stand out from most bloggers?
Practice Taking the Next Blogging Step Even if Doing So Feels Uncomfortable
Taking the next blogging step toward greater success feels uncomfortable.
But take it you must to succeed.
No one gets ahead from their comfort zone.
Dream of freedom. Doing this pulls you through discomfort.
Blog mainly for fun. Enjoy helping people. Making blogging a labor of love goads one to take the extra step even if it feels uncomfortable.
Massive Wealth = Taking Many Extra Steps
I visited Harrods during my London trip.
I have never seen such exquisite attention to detail, meticulous planning and careful consideration in a retail store.
Truly, Harrods is generally considered to be the most upscale retail shopping experience in the world. No wonder why customers drop $3000 on a pair of shoes or $5000 on a stuffed giraffe in this store.
Store planners deliberately took many extra steps to design such a brilliant place. From the maze-like design layout, to perfect lighting, to the immaculate nature of the place, Harrods has you the moment you arrive.
If you happen to be a millionaire or billionaire then the store will have a small chunk of your fortune, too.
Conclusion
Take the extra blogging step guys.
Fun, freedom and worldly success await you.
