Istanbul, Turkey
Blogging is far more between the ears than you realize.
Following sound practical tips makes sense. But why do so few bloggers follow those tips into a professional blogging career? Why do bloggers generally struggle?
As a rule, most bloggers do not maximize their talents and they certainly don’t give all to all. Most do not give away their best work on a consistent basis. I count myself guilty in this matter from time to time.
In truth, I have waffled quite a bit during my 15-year blogging career. Sometimes I gave it all away and felt awesome in the process. I also experienced increasing success during these time frames. But then I held back for a long time because of fear in my mind. I did not like the seemingly diminished returns I experienced. Worse than that, I was actually succeeding but my greed told me that the success was not enough.
Bad move. Struggles followed.
Especially when it comes to optimizing my blog, I have to find the delicate balance between following practical tips but embodying the mindset of giving it all away in terms of really digging deep to blog from my heart to be most truly helpful. Sometimes, I feel like I’m not giving away all my talents because I’m so busy with optimizing posts for SEO and fine-tuning other aspects of my blogging campaign. But I’m getting there.
How did you use your blogging talents today? I am dictating these words at the airport in Istanbul Turkey. Sure it feels a little uncomfortable right now. But I felt an intuitive nudge to create helpful content for you, my blogging friends.
In addition to that urge, I also intend to be truly helpful. Creating content helps me and also helps you. I also feel good about expressing my talents to use them to the max today.
Do You Hold Back?
Do you appear to hold back today? Do you try to mute your blogging voice? Are you holding back your blogging talents? Without a doubt, every blogging struggle you have ever faced hinges on suppressing your blogging talents while holding back your ability.
A few moments ago I scanned blogs from my network. Nobody had published a post recently. That meant I had nothing to read, share and drop a comment on as per my custom. The old me would have called it a day. The newer me, over the prior few years, may have done a little bit of work after. The current day me knows to give my blogging heart to all right now.
Since one door closed I decided to open another door by dictating and publishing this post. The process is fairly easy when you get the hang of it. But before you find your blogging flow this process is highly uncomfortable because it forces you to observe your mind in the light of truth.
Truth be told, I held back my blogging talents for a while. I would create a little bit and then see how the outcomes appeared to come together or not. Doing this led to a terrible habit. Anytime you hold back it is held back from you. This means that success does not find you when you’re busy trying to serve yourself and decide to hold back your talents in the process.
In particular, this seems to be a problem for many budding bloggers who work as employees. Typically, we hold back when working a job because we mainly want a paycheck. Blogging is a WAY different game; you give big-time up front to set-up backend success.
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I also became heavily obsessed with SEO optimizing posts for a while. Going this route can be helpful but if you are so hell-bent on getting something out of the post you will hold back your talents and do a poor job giving it all the way. By that, I mean helping people freely but of course opening income channels through which you receive money and render helpful products and services.
The blogging process gets so much easier when you decide to help people freely versus holding back and trying to get everything for yourself. The same process becomes highly difficult when you hold back again and again because you’re afraid you’re not getting enough in return for the service you’ve rendered.
Train Your Mind
Try the best you can to train your mind. Be aware of holding back. Be extra aware of when you create something with the sole intent of getting something in return. Or simply be aware of the getting mechanism popping up in your egoic mind.
Trying to get seems like a natural human tendency but it’s not who you really are. You and I are pure love in reality. Love never asks. Love only gives. Of course, as a neat by-product, when you set up business channels you better believe that you’ll make money by giving away the farm and simply adding a price tag here and there.
Note Wealth
Pay close attention to some of the wealthiest people in the world to see this concept in action. Not only do they over deliver and scale like few humans ever have, they keep helping without attaching heavily to any outcome. The icons of the world max out their talents until they find the next level. This is one of the reasons why they seem to experience a different, titanic level of success compared to most entrepreneurs.
Follow their lead. Be generous. You have all the practical tips you need to become a successful blogger. I don’t need to rehash those for the 10,000th time on my blog or for the 100,000th time today because you and I know that most blogging tips bloggers cover the same old topics. That’s all well and good but if you don’t know how to be generous you’ll never succeed.
Challenge Laid Out
I intend to challenge you to max out your talents today. How can you help people with your skills? Broadcast live on Facebook. Write and submit a guest post. Write a blog post. Promote a few bloggers today. Publish a few text only updates on social media related to your niche. The steps are quite simple but the mental blocks to surmount seem highly uncomfortable in moments. I am there with you guys. I am learning with you.
As I learned the art of trusting my intuition even if it flies in the face of online logic I do find myself giving away more and expecting less. This is the secret to building something genuinely powerful from a level of scale. When you let go of the expectations you keep giving without worrying about what you’re getting in return. This is how everything grows exponentially over the long haul.
Conclusion
Help people freely. Stop judging yourself. Stop judging others too. Busy yourself with helping them. When you’re busy helping people you won’t judge yourself, your business outcomes or much of anything in the world. Plus you will be happy.
The upside? Bigger traffic and blogging income.
Doesn’t that sound like a fun way to blog?
