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A cheeky monkey urinated on me during my world travels.
Drops of simian urine gently cascaded on my dome.
In remote areas like where I lived at the time, monkeys are so unused to seeing people (yes it was *that* remote) that peeing on humans seems like a sound defense mechanism.
It did the trick.
At some point during your blogging journey you feel like a toilet, too.
If you are frustrated by the lack of positive results on your blog I know what it feels like.
I also know the way out.
The trick is to hug the rough feeling emotions to clear these ideas from your mind.
From there, you blog a bit more from love, abundance and intelligence which positions you to thrive.
Positive results come for patient bloggers who own the root of negative results: their mind.
1: Eat the Crap Sandwich (Hug Your Frustrated Feelings)
See positive, uplifting, successful results by:
- facing
- embracing
- releasing
fears.
You cannot get over what is still in you.
Practical Tips
- sit in the quiet room
- take 5 deep breaths
- ask yourself out loud “How do I genuinely, honestly feel about my blog?”
- let the true feelings flow
- grab a pillow to punch or cry into
Growth occurs by releasing what holds you back.
Fear holds you back.
Express it to be free of it.
Proceed to remember why you blog.
Step into uncomfortable emotions to see the illusory nature of the energies. Consider walking through air. Do you fear air? Does it make you piddle in your pantaloons? Nope. Fear, similar to the abstract nature of air, is an illusion. Wading through it reveals that it was never really there.
Patiently ridding your mind of fear reveals why you chose to blog in the first place.
2: Remember Your Most Fun and Freeing Why
Recall why you decided to begin blogging.
Did you feel like a little kid on Christmas morning?
Blogging felt exciting, didn’t it?
Revisit that reason. Allow the idea to seep deeper into your conscious mind. This fun, freeing reason pulls you through the struggles everyone invariably faces on their blogging journey.
I slammed into stout resistance at times. One part of my mind wished to throw in the towel. But remembering why I chose to blog edged me outside of my comfort zone to solve the problem.
Practically speaking, this step feels intense sometimes. In January of 2023 the intuition guided me to delete 100’s of blog posts from Blogging From Paradise. Taking this step felt scary. Knowing why I had to do it seemed easier because I dwelled on my fun, freeing, blogging driver.
I felt terrified to lose year’s worth of work in a few hours. But that work did nothing for me and little for most Blogging From Paradise readers because I recalled why I blog: publishing only outstanding content allows me to live a fun, freeing life and empowers you to live a fun, freeing life.
Deviating from that formula created resistance for me.
Logically working through these ideas goaded me to trash the posts.
Almost instantly, positive results surfaced after I had faced some stiff resistance for a while.
Prepare to do some mental gymnastics on this one. Invest in some blogging courses or blogging eBooks to help get the job done.
Hop scotching between your fears and reason why requires a contortionist level of mental flexibility but like any skill…..if you practice it becomes easier.
What About Money or Fame Drivers?
Blogging for money or fame is a can of worms.
Here’s why: if you began blogging mainly to get money or to be popular the money or popularity arrives only after practicing blogging for a long time. What happens during that long period of time? You lose your motivator. What happens when you lose your motivator? You quit.
If you began blogging mainly for money or fame either change your driver or quit to avoid torturing yourself. Blog mainly for fun and freedom. Money and fame comes only after blogging for fun and freedom, patiently and persistently.
When the work becomes the reward, outside drivers like money and popularity feel like bonuses. Blogging feels fun in and of itself.
If you make coin and gain fame, great but if not, you are having fun, so who cares?
Taking this attitude for a while allows money and popularity to flow to you because when you stop caring about your personal needs and care for others through blogging those folks boost your income and online presence.
3: BE the Blogger Who Succeeds (Dive into Your Fears)
Be the blogger who succeeds by diving in to your fears while you do the foundation-laying work.
As a practical example, imagine spending 3 hours to write an SEO-optimized, detailed blog post as a new blogger with literally zero blog traffic.
Fears dance around in your mind.
“No one reads your blog. No one visits your blog. Stop wasting your time. Why do a thorough job if no one reads your blog anyway?”
Despite being bedeviled by these fears, be the blogger who publishes high quality content now. Do not trust appearances. Do not buy into illusions.
Feel discomfort and write the dazzling blog post.
First, you build something outstanding. Then, with patient blogger outreach and a deep trust in the blogging process people will come, benefit from and share your work.
Every new blogger goes through this period of blogging temptation in the cyber desert. Nothing appears to be happening. Yet you need to publish detailed content to lay a rock solid foundation for your blogging campaign.
Edge into fears to get the job done.
Dive into these Fears:
- write and publish your first blog post
- write and self-publish your first eBook
- write and pitch your first guest post
- create your first online course
Be the blogger through discomfort to become the blogger who sees positive blogging results.
Conclusion
Look your blogging struggles directly in the eye to gradually look past these frustrations.
Face fear. Remember why you blog. Busy yourself with creating dazzling content and remember to engage in blogger outreach too.
Follow these steps to start seeing positive results with your blog.
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