Inle Lake, Myanmar
Imagine running a blogging business based on this idea:
“I am afraid that if I do not reply to email and social media within 5 minutes to 24 hours that I will lose organic traffic, blogging income and the trust of emotionally unstable individuals who arrogantly believed that I was at their beck and call, their lack of emotional intelligence displaying a level of neediness, expectations and demanding too incomprehensible to even fathom for someone with a reasonable level of emotional intelligence.”
No offense to afraid minds. But I do have to clearly state the obvious as a teaching mechanism, not a personal condemnation.
Do you want your blogging life to go that way?
Do you want to build your online business on the concept of loss?
Does that sound freeing?
Does that sound fun?
Liberating?
Do you really believe that the way to become free from time and location is to build your online business *on* time and location?
Where do you need to be, and when, if you choose to reply to everyone within 5 minutes, an hour or 24 hours because you fear losing individuals?
You need to be somewhere – aka, at a location – at 5 minute, 1 hour or 24 hour intervals, aka, at a certain time.
Welcome to being an employee who works a job to those who choose that route. Do something somewhere at a certain time for some specific result.
Entrepreneurs Build Assets which Work for them Not a Job to Work Themselves
Entrepreneurs consistently build assets which work for them, eventually, at least.
Building assets requires great mindfulness, substantial work and an exquisitely high level of emotional intelligence. But at least you become largely free from time and location as you do it.
I rolled out of bed today and said to myself:
“What do I feel like doing today? What blogging work would feel fun? I will write a blog post and social media updates which send organic traffic and blogging income to me.”
which is completely different from saying to myself:
“I NEED TO reply to EVERYONE QUICKLY or else I WILL LOSE THEM AND LOSE BUSINESS.”
As always, everything is in your mind.
A few bloggers reply to everyone quickly because it feels fun, relaxing and liberating.
But most bloggers who follow this time and location attached approach speaks of:
- stress
- strain
- difficulties
- challenges
- tension
by sticking to the tactic which proves it is not largely fun for them but fear, driving them to do it.
These individuals chose to engineer their blogging business on the fear of loss.
But I have a better option for you.
How about blogging with the love of gain?
How about creating content assets that slowly but surely send organic traffic and blogging income to you?
What if most people who love your content, eBooks and online courses only want your content, eBooks and online courses, NOT a personal reply from you?
What if a small percentage of emotionally unintelligent individuals arrogantly demanding your reply came and went like the tide?
What if you could reply to people who loved your content in a few minutes or a few weeks, and they would appreciate you either way?
THAT is the audience which gives you freedom from time and location.
But YOU need to set up a content-asset strategy, first, by conquering your intimately personal fears, to attract them to you through your prolific content creation campaign.
You choose.
But the choice usually begins with looking honestly at your scarcity-based blogging strategy and how your fears tie you to time, location and swift replies to individuals, based on the fear of loss.
I sure as hell had to go that route.
But it was the best decision of my blogging life.
