Kendal England
Blogging appears to be highly difficult in moments.
Or maybe this gig feels like Chinese water torture for months.
I have experienced difficult blogging stretches like everyone who does this gig.
Why is blogging so darn difficult?
I would love to spend five minutes waxing poetic about blogger pain points. Your eGo may love if I do that as well.
But I’m in the blogging business of empowering you.
I want you to save time.
I do not want you to waste time by airing grievances.
Blogging seems to be so darn difficult because you do not know what the hell you’re doing.Â
Or maybe you know exactly what you are doing but have no idea why you do it.
One case involves winging it. Consider throwing darts at a board while roller skating around a moat filled with voracious crocodiles who chomp at you every few seconds. Bloggers who experiment instead of following a system taught by professionals have about as solid a success rate as the unfortunate individual above.
I stopped checking spam folders from my LinkedIn and Facebook groups roughly three weeks ago. 99% to 100% were pure spam. None of these bloggers know what they’re doing. None of these bloggers spend three seconds of their lives to read the rules for these groups. I do not condemn any of them but I do know that they don’t know their blogging ass from their elbow.
Blogging appears to be impossible for them because they have no idea what they’re doing and refuse to ask experienced blogger to teach them how to succeed. Why would someone punish themselves in such fashion? Almost every human being who breathes lives on an unconscious level identical to a robot.
People push down ridiculous fear-based beliefs in their mind way out of awareness then proceed to act out these beliefs like a cyborg. Bloggers who have no experience figure that it’s wiser to follow their inexperience and ignore successful guidance from a highly successful, professional blogger.
This is why blogging appears to be difficult for most. They know better as an ignorant individual than the one with a decade of blogging experience under their belt.
Blogging is temporarily uncomfortable at times but of itself not really difficult. Publish helpful content for a targeted reader consistently. Drive quality traffic. Build relationships with bloggers in your niche by helping them. Build relationships with your readers. Monetize through multiple income channels.
None of these ideas are highly difficult to understand. Everyone experiences some discomfort putting them into action but following these simple steps for a long time builds the foundation for a professional blogging career.
Difficulties arise the split second that you do it your way when you have no clue what you’re doing. Most bloggers make this unconscious decision to punish themselves. Most bloggers behave from a place of unconscious self-sabotage. Let the blogging difficulties begin!
A percentage of struggling bloggers who slam into difficulties have no idea why they are blogging. The highly successful bloggers of the world get very clear mentally on blogging mainly for fun, freedom or the love of helping people. This clarity produces astounding results over the long term. Almost no bloggers do this because of that unconscious resistance that we talked about before.
How to Make Blogging Easier
First you need to know why you blog.
Tie the reasons to fun or freedom. Tie the reasons to your love of helping people.
Blogging from these high energy internal drivers motivates you to do the sometimes uncomfortable but always success promoting activities which a spawn a professional blogging career.
From this appropriate mental space, follow guidance from full-time bloggers who teach you how to go full-time to eventually go full time.
Instead of trying to figure out what the hell you’re doing on your own just do with pro bloggers tell you to do to go pro like them.
Blogging becomes much easier when you love it and do what pros tell you to do. Love inspires you to do the work which is successful work because it’s worked for many professionals and amateurs alike.
I cannot stress enough how doing the mental work makes everything increasingly easier and running away from it makes everything impossibly difficult.
Everything comes down to your willingness to be mentally adventurous.
Blogging is still uncomfortable for aspiring professionals but leaving your comfort zone is radically different than some difficult venture seemingly impossible to master.
I’m not asking you to bench press 700 pounds which is incredibly difficult if not impossible.
I’m asking you to research, write and publish a 1200 word blog post which may feel uncomfortable but has nothing to do with trying to bench press 700 pounds. You’re sitting in front of a computer trying to deal with uncomfortable fears in your mind not attempting to do something physically impossible for almost all of us.
You need to learn, experience and accept the difference between difficult and uncomfortable before going pro. You will experience a volume of uncomfortable moments but none will be difficult or impossible to get through because you’re just sitting in front of a computer creating content. Any human being can do that. Few sit with the discomfort which arises in the mind from time to time until they go pro.
I feel like you are one of those few.
But that’s ultimately up to you.
