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Blogging is tough for most.
Why?
Blogging is almost entirely unconscious until you look within your mind.
Looking within your mind at the thoughts and feelings surfacing is difficult. But the skill gets easier with diligent practice.
Imagine a robot. Picture a cyborg. Look at the bodies out there. Do you see free will? Or do you see mannequins?
I mean it.
I do not condemn anyone. But I am explaining the nature of your existence here. My mind is split. I do unconscious things often. Yet I look within my mind to see my thoughts and feelings too, to change my mind, to change my strategy, to be truly helpful and to trend in that direction.
7 More Spam Emails
I checked my Gmail inbox a few moments ago.
Seven more spam emails since last I perused the inbox.
Why?
Blogging is unconscious until you look at your mind. No lookey? No mind. Mindlessness. Unconsciousness. Robot. Mannequin. Cyborg.
I saw a few emails clearly not written by someone who mindfully thought through their approach before reaching out to me. A few addressed me as, “Blogging From Paradise Team”, meaning none gave 5 seconds of their life to click the “About” tab to learn that I am Ryan Biddulph, the creator and owner of Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.
Consider how mindless one must be to appear to not have 5 seconds to spare to learn the name of the person to cold pitch. Mindlessness. Blogging is unconscious. Appearing to not possess a mind – even though you do – means blogging unconsciously. Blogging unconsciously leads to making bone-headed errors easily spotted and looked beyond by a more mindful blogger doing things consciously, carefully and compassionately.
Basically, when you are mindful you calmly do what it takes to succeed.
The Difficult Aspect of Dealing with Mindless Bloggers (at First)
Today I just:
- labelled the messages as spam
- visited my spam folder
- deleted the spam
in 4 seconds peacefully.
I do not become angry, resentful or enraged when I walk the trash from the kitchen to the outside bin. Do you?
Well then why would you become angry, resentful, enraged, air grievances, complain or send snippy emails to the rubbish bin? The people are not garbage. The people are not trash. Here is what happened: a mindless person who did not know of their unconscious approach did something silly consistent with someone who does not intelligently think through their approach. Would you take it personally if a robot did something to you, knowing it was programmed to do that thing and could not help it? No.
Seeing the bodies as mindless robots completely removes:
- fear
- pain
- suffering
- frustration
- anger
from the situation.
BUT……
……the difficult aspect of seeing bodies as mindless mannequins is that it requires years’ worth of mind training in most cases.
Why?
You and I harbor *unconscious* fear, guilt, pain and frustration easily projected onto the seeming blogging numb skulls of the world until you look within your unconscious mind too. Trying to become aware of your thoughts as a meditating newbie is like trying to catch a monkey blitzed on cocaine as it hops wildly from branch to branch.
The process of looking within is highly uncomfortable at first. We are used to busying ourselves with doing stuff in the world not looking within the mind to see what you and I project onto the world.
But looking within makes you:
- mindful
- conscious
- happy
- peaceful
Mindful, conscious, happy, peaceful bloggers find worldly success (organic traffic and money) forthcoming. Everything flows easily to the calm, truly helpful mind.
In this world, it is far easier to say, “It is that asshole out there’s fault!”
Difficult indeed looking within the mind is. You eventually experience that it is not that person’s fault but how you choose to mindfully perceive the person. Perhaps you’ve heard stories of advanced monks calmly walking out of burning buildings. Advanced minds carry peace, calm and serenity within the mind and look past their body, other bodies, burning buildings and all things external.
The spirit of this post: if you become mindful (through an uncomfortable but liberating process) you will follow simple blogging strategies for a long time to cultivate organic traffic and blogging income.
Do You Need to Be the Buddha to Blog Successfully?
Hell no.
But becoming increasingly mindful is a requirement. Sorry. Otherwise, you will complain about the unconscious bloggers sending you an identical cold pitch email for the thousandth time versus calmly trashing the email then peacefully writing a blog post like this one.
Writing detailed posts:
- drives organic traffic
- generates blogging income
Mindlessly, unconsciously complaining about mindless, unconscious spammers does not drive organic traffic and generate blogging income anymore than you can help a human being in an echo chamber.
I am not judging any of you guys. I love ya’s. I too complain at times about being spammed. I too air grievances about Google, social media and high level bloggers guiding with perhaps less than genuine strategies. I own that. The whole point of being alive on planet earth is to become more mindful of your unconscious shadow to become more proficient at NOT dwelling in that world consistently.
We are all pretty much robots until you take a post like this to heart.
Blogging is difficult because much of what bloggers do is highly unconscious. Automatic. Programmed. Scripted. Whatever you want to call it…….this is how blogging is.
But deciding to consistently look into the mind to become conscious makes blogging far easier.
When you decide to look at these fears sitting only in your mind:
- “Social media is pay to play.”
- “AI will put all bloggers out of business.”
- “Google destroyed blogging with AI results.”
and decide to look past these fears you will never mindlessly allow social media, AI or Google to grab you by the balls again.
Talk about power, eh?
Being mindful in a mindless world makes you basically a super hero.
People wonder how you did it then mindlessly look past the post explaining how you did it.
Kidding. 🙂
Practical Tips
- meditate for 20-30 minutes daily
- note how you think and feel while you blog; take down notes detailing thoughts and feelings
- mindfully choose thoughts and feelings to move in a successful blogging direction
- be gentle with yourself
- be gentle with mindless bloggers
- breathe deeply throughout the day to become mindful
There you have it, guys.
Become mindful.
Remove blogging difficulties from your experience.
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