Yaniklar, Turkey
Picture yourself waking up gently at 8:30 AM.
No alarm rouses you from a deep sleep. Largely, time is no object.
You take a few deep breaths and fire up the phone to read your A Course in Miracles workbook lesson for the day.
After spending 5 minutes replying to friends on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn you set the timer for 30 minutes, place your phone to the side and meditate peacefully.
Anyway, when the timer expires you exit the bed (yes you have been in bed for the first 55 minutes of the day because you have the freedom to do this) mosey into the kitchen to do some Kriya yoga tensing while boiling Turkish coffee. Ya know; the coffee you drink in those teeny weeny little cups?
Before migrating to the kitchen you stop to appreciate the stunning, snow-capped mountains in the distance from your bedroom window. This is the Turkish Riviera. You are spending 2 months here. Turquoise, impossibly clear Mediterranean waters lie to the east. What looks like the Swiss Alps rest in the West. Not bad.
Coffee ready, yoga done, you traipse over to your laptop.
What does your intuition guide you to do?
Write a post titled:
“What Blogging Really Looks Like”
What Blogging Looks Like in Reality
Blogging is fun, freedom, liberation and having the power to choose life how you wish life to be for the good of all.
Blogging is not some vain imagining, some egoic lust fest engineered to please only you. Nope.
The guy you imagined yourself to be is me and I am you. Re-reading the words above reveals how my morning went today and also suggests how your morning can go if you blog mainly for fun, freedom and for being truly helpful. Or maybe you already live your dreams through blogging.
Blogging really looks like a freeing life decision based on being truly helpful patiently and persistently.
Do you want practical blogging tips for being truly helpful from day one of your blogging career?
Click this link:
How to Start a Blog the Right Way
Being Truly Helpful = Blogging Freedom
Freedom.
You cannot beat being free through blogging.
Being truly helpful sets the foundation for a freeing blogging career.
This is where most bloggers stumble.
How Blogging Looks: Challenges
Let’s look at a practical example.
Do you need help with starting a blog?
Click the link above I shared above, read the post, take notes and get to work.
This is how to be truly helpful; learn how to start a blog from someone with ample blogging experience.
Yet challenges arise because some bloggers will hem, haw, avoid reading the post, do not study the post and do not put the advice from the post into action. If you do not learn how to start blogging effectively and do not start blogging effectively you can never be truly helpful and certainly cannot experience the fun and freedom of blogging professionally all around the globe.
Challenges arise if you resist:
- learning how to blog intelligently
- practicing how to blog intelligently
- being truly helpful
Freedom sits behind the challenges.
Challenges are fears in your mind that you project onto the world.
This is how blogging really looks. Forget practical tips for driving traffic. Why do most skip the tips, drive little traffic, struggle, fail and quit? Fear in their mind steers the individual from being truly helpful and free toward thinking only about self and being bound.
This is blogging, folks. This is why it appears to be difficult. This is why it appears to be tough, uncomfortable and impossible sometimes. This is also why it seems to take such a long time to succeed.
The Solution
Re-read the first few paragraphs of this blog post.
I snapped the featured image from the neighborhood in Turkey if you need a visual.
Get a feel for the experience of:
- sleeping in without an alarm shocking you into action
- time being no object
- living peacefully
- feeling relaxed
- circling the globe when you wish
- working from the comfort of your home
- having the freedom to set your own schedule
- experiencing the joys of being truly helpful, learning a meaningful skill, facing your most imprisoning fears and being in charge of your life
Dwelling on these emotions propels you through the challenges. Resistance dissolves into your desire for freedom.
For example, you may sit down to write a blog post today and nothing seems to happen. Words do not flow. The challenge surfaces.
In this moment, remember that you want freedom more than you fear surrendering to writer’s block. Remember that you desire to be truly helpful more than you want to give up quickly.
Considering these ideas may guide you to read this post:
After reading the post and taking a few notes you feel an intuitive nudge to begin writing the post. Words flow. Challenge dissolved. Baby step a wee more toward freedom.
This is how blogging really looks.
Beware Clinging to a Hard Work Consciousness
Most bloggers cling to this belief in mind: you need to work hard, with great tension, forcing and willing yourself for toilsome hours daily in order to live your blogging dreams.
Forgive that idea immediately.
Animals work hard. Pack mules work hard. Water buffalo work hard.
You are not a pack mule or water buffalo. If you are, congratulations of learning how to read the English language. Double congrats if you decide to leave your master and live your dreams through blogging.
Anyway, blogging is fun, freeing service which sometimes feels challenging, tough and uncomfortable.
Sometimes is not 18 hour days for 6 months….that’s all the time! Bad idea!
If blogging were hard, forced work I would have spent the first 4 hours of my day today running around like a blogging mad man versus peacefully enjoying life in bed, sipping on Turkish coffee, looking at snow-capped mountains outside of my window and writing this blog post in chill mode.
I practiced writing for a long time to allow words to flow seamlessly now but that practice was largely fun, enjoyable and freeing. I can assure you that I did struggle some over the years but only because in my mind I made blogging hard work during various stretches.
I pushed, strained and strived in my mind to try to get traffic and money for sustained periods of time. Even when I appeared not to get appreciable results for a while I predominantly had fun helping people through creating content and building connections.
Hard, strained blogging work brings tension. Tension brings diminished results, no results, or in rare cases, increasing worldly success with fatigue, the fear of losing it all and general mental chaos (blogging should not look like that).
What About Practice and Money?
Blogging involves practicing for a time before the money arrives.
This is what blogging looks like.
But if you plan to be alive for a time frame doesn’t it make sense to spend that time practicing something that brings you freedom?
Bloggers scoff at spending years working at blogging before thriving. Some even deem this time element a “drawback” of blogging.
Are you kidding me?
If you are around spend those years doing something fun and freeing. That’s not a “downside”. It’s called “being wise”.
During some of these stretches you may feel tempted to panic and bail on sound blogging strategies. In those moments remember why you desire freedom more than you fear challenges. If anything, train your mind to fear bailing on a proven system far more than fearing any illusion of traffic or income absence.
Be far more afraid of quitting what is working in the background (it is) than fearing that little to no traffic and money flows to you through blogging.
Then, when you fear the appropriate circumstance, gradually you can fall back in love with your fun, freeing blogging vision.
Falling back in love with freedom focuses the mind on creating content, building connections and opening income channels because it feels fun to be truly helpful.
Instead of being shaken out for a stretch, you simply return to the blogging process of creating and connecting to be helpful.
As the Japanese adage goes, chop wood, carry water.
Mindfully focus on the blogging process. Trust in the blogging process. Trust in yourself.
Money arrives organically if you love the process of helping people through blogging. When you love it you keep doing it and give little thought to traffic and money stats.
This is exactly what blogging looks like.
Why Write this Post?
I’ve blogged for nearly 15 years.
I’ve observed many bloggers struggle because the blogging masses do not understand: this blog post is what blogging really looks like.
Reading it gives you a glimpse into what happens when you prioritize freedom over surrendering to fear.
Understanding it offers you the full picture of who you need to be to live your freeing dreams through blogging.
You only understand this post when you put the advice into practice to personally experience what I’m sharing with you today.
Stop working harder. Do not even bother working smarter right now.
Drop everything. Imagine freedom. Stop rushing ahead to get hard work done. Picture what it’d feel like to relax in bed for hours as you gaze at snow-capped mountains in Turkey. That vision, that feeling, will save you so many year’s worth of headaches because when you SEE IT in mind you BE IT in body.
With that vision in mind, instead of racing around scared like a headless blogging chicken today, doing ineffective things, you will devote 5 hours to writing a:
- detailed
- thorough
- in-depth
- SEO-optimized
blog post which yields organic traffic and blogging income around the clock.
Or maybe this post will not drive steady organic growth but you gain immensely valuable practice while having fun being truly helpful.
Be patient, blogging grasshopper.
This is how blogging really is.
Conclusion
Have fun helping people.
Relax.
Trust in the process.
Remember your freedom.
Do not give in to the temptation of cowering to fear.
Success is on the way.
This is how blogging really is.
Your Turn
How has blogging been for you?
What parts of this post resonate with you?
