Pinnacle Mountain Vermont USA
You have a real blogging problem.
That’s the bad news.
The good news?
This post solves your problem.
Look closely at the image above. Kelli snapped it the moment we reached the pinnacle of…..well….Pinnacle Mountain in Stowe, Vermont. Most bloggers would love to experience circling the globe or at least circling their home country. I do not mean being a full-time digital nomad. I mean taking 1 or 2 trips annually. Or maybe taking 3-4 trips each year. Doesn’t that sound fun? Everyone enjoys taking vacations. People love to break up their routine from time to time.
Imagine if you deeply desire to travel like we do. Picture yourself being a digital nomad.
So you ask: “What does it take? What can I do to experience a fun, freeing life of travel like you do?”
I say: “10,000 plus hours – or perhaps a bit less – of creating targeted content and building strong connections with readers. That’s the foundation. But my online course for sale, eBooks for sale and 100’s of blog posts list practical blogging guidance to follow to make your dream come true.”
Your blogging problem triggers immediately on hearing my wise guidance.
The numbers scare the hell out of you. 10,000 hours? Are you kidding me? What about all of that research? Sounds like too much work. How do you even go about conducting due diligence?
Unconscious fear surfaces in your mind. Conscious fear shows its hideous head, too. Fear courses through your being, surging in your veins. You stop thinking but immediately react according to your hard wired, unconscious programming. Picture a robot as doing what it has been programmed to do. This is what happens immediately after looking at the image then receiving what it takes to make the image manifest in your experience.
A roaring rapids of excuses pop up in your mind. Limiting beliefs reveal their nasty little selves.
Most of all, one dominant voice and feeling dominates your mind:
“I will not do that. I cannot do that. I need to find someone who gives me a shortcut. I need to find someone who does all of the work for me.”
The core problem is this: you harbor strong unconscious resistance to thinking, feeling and doing what successful bloggers so that a disconnect arises between your goal and the work required to reach it.
Look at that view up top. What a beauty, eh? Most people would love to enjoy the view in person but possess a visceral fear of hiking mountains for the discomforts arising during said hike. People typically prefer to view photos online versus doing the uncomfortable thing of getting there in person. Too many fears to conquer. Too many excuses to dissolve.
What Is the Solution to Your Problem?
Figure out why you blog.
Tie the reason to:
- fun
- freedom
- the love of helping people
Blogging for fun, freedom and the love of helping people influences you to do the at times uncomfortable thinking, feeling and acting/blogging to eventually reach your dream life. Fear dissolves into fun. Mental blocks melt into freedom. Limiting beliefs disappear into love.
Imagine looking at the image above and saying to yourself: “I can and will live that life! I know it!”Â
Repeating that phrase with a calm sense of confidence occurs if you blog mainly for fun, freedom and the love of service. Love deconstructs the strong unconscious resistance in your mind. The fears surface to be felt then looked past calmly. This is the power of love. Love makes fear beat a hasty retreat into oblivion.
Reality sets in but in a calm way. You picture your dream life and the steps to confidently take to get there. Fear will arise; you know this. But temporary discomfort never shakes you from your vision. Choosing high energy drivers propels you into this proper frame of blogging mind.
The problem morphs into a solution.
The disconnect becomes a connection.
The dream and work required to manifest the dream become one.
Doesn’t that sound fun?
