Quepos, Costa Rica
Should you grind it out and hop around like both organ grinder and hyperactive monkey?
Bloggers often stress the importance of hard work. Wake up early. Stay up late. In a country like the USA, hustling hard positions you to succeed in the corporate world. I know. Been there. Done that. At least for a stretch from my mid-20’s to my early 30’s, I walked the corporate treadmill. But this experience taught me a dramatic lesson relatively early in life. Peace and freedom win. Chaos and subjugation lose.
Does Blogging From Paradise want you to go corporate? Do we want to work hard to get our nut? How about trading time and peace of mind for money? How does that sound?
Or should you enjoy the process of helping people with content? No stress with this one. Straining and striving become afterthoughts.
Being truly helpful leads to only gain. Having fun makes the process increasingly easier because fun-seekers never lose success momentum. Love this gig and it ain’t work but play.
What Strategy Amplifies Your Blogging Success?
Which strategy accelerates your blogging success?
The latter.
DEFINITELY the latter.
Here’s why…..
Working hard means taking blogging seriously. Taking blogging seriously indicates a psychological attachment to:
- blogging work
- blog traffic
- blogging income
Scared bloggers psychologically attach to work and outcomes at both conscious and especially unconscious levels. Frightened bloggers who NEED to MAKE THIS WORK add severe tension to the process. Imagine difficult 18 hour work days. Work becomes intolerable. Most of these bloggers struggle, fail and flame out. Blogging career over. A rare few experience stressful, unhappy, pain-filled, unfulfilling worldly success.
As mentioned prior, the hustle culture dominates the corporate world in places like the United States. I recall folks retiring with months’ worth of accumulated vacation days. Employers reward workers for skipping vacation to work hard because it helps the business bottom line. Cultural thing.
I teach the exact opposite strategy.
Work light.
Have fun.
Enjoy building content-assets to free yourself from time and location.
Dudes and Money
I recall a dude sharing his experience on an internet marketing forum from my early blogging days nearly 17 years ago.
He felt severely depressed after earning 6 figures a year for the first time. After working hard, sacrificing, stressing, straining and striving from heavy tension, he looked at that magic 100,000 dollar plus number and deemed it to be largely meaningless. Why? He immediately understood all of the fear and pain he suffered simply to trade for different things.
Insane, eh?
I remember a few billionaires – fictional and not – expressing the error of their ways when it came to how each made money. A TV show billionaire noted how reaching the $10 billion net worth level felt like finding 20 bucks on the street back when he was dead broke. After the quick rush for a few seconds he could care less and moved on. Real-life billionaires sometimes profess how much time, work and happiness each sacrificed to reach money goals clearly well beyond what one can spend, invest or give away to philanthropy in one average human life time.
The Fun Alternative
What about having fun with helping people with content?
Doing this automatically removes:
- fear
- tension
- psychological attachment to outcomes
- stress
- pain
- suffering
from the blogging process.
Feeling relaxed, calm and confident means:
- no missteps (well…..mostly no missteps)
- cumulative success gains
- unlimited energy for blogging
spanning years if not decades.
Basically guys, a calm, peaceful, relaxed, confident mind amplifies success slowly at first but exponentially over 5 to 10 years or longer.
Relaxed bloggers never quit due to burn out. Being relaxed instills an almost super human level of persistence and consistency to a largely frenzied, chaotic-thinking like world.
The chill pros who have fun creating detailed content for a targeted reader eventually rocket to the top and put serious distance between themselves and the herd because each does ordinary things for an extraordinary period of time (the stunning success secret). Pretty much everyone else tries to do extraordinary things for an ordinary period of time (the recipe for struggling, failing and quitting).
The hard worker tries to write a few viral posts and quits in disgust.
The relaxed helper creates simple, practical content for the next few years to build massive success momentum, gaining energy, peace and happiness along the way.
Why Fun Play Beats Hard Work
Have you noticed how easy life feels in moments of joy?
Having fun makes your experience seamless.
Creating content because it feels fun to help people removes tension from the process. Being tension-free influences bloggers to be prolific, consistent and persistent. Success follows organically.
Be Committed Not Serious
Commit to blogging but do not take it seriously.
Be all in from a relaxed state of mind.
Beware adding tension to the process. Tension negates.
Have fun to energize yourself.
Get lost in the process to let go of outcomes.
Decide to succeed without the stress.
You Still Need to Take Action
Never run away from blogging work.
Taking action is necessary.
Leave your comfort zone to do it. Face your fears. Ease into discomfort. Get the work done even if it scares you a little bit.
In a perfect world, every blogging action feels fun. But you and I live in a world of imperfection. Take blogging action during imperfect moments. Everyone experiences fear from time to time. Put in the work in those rare moments where it feels a bit heavy.
Step into the spirit of this post by taking most action from a fun-feeling vibe. Enlightened beings are fearless. Fear is no part of an ascended master. But newbies to mind training experience fear here and there. Take blogging action in fleeting moments when it feels less than ideal to get the job done.
What About When You Completely Lose Fun-Feeling Momentum?
Stop writing and publish the blog post.
I shall follow my own advice now.
