London, UK
Yesterday I cruised around London with my dear friend Phillip.
We spied multiple ping pong tables in a public setting.
Alas; no balls or paddles availed themselves.
Perhaps some Smoke City rapscallions pilfered the precious ping pong gear.
Anyway, I drew an analogy between my blogging career and the fun game a few moments ago.
My journey forced me to bounce around like a ping pong ball assaulting the table. Sometimes the lightest dribble but other times a full on attack, everyone who’s seen skilled players easily understands the chaotic nature of the game, on the surface at least.
Having blogged for 17 years, I embraced bouts of wild chaos. Success came. Success went. Success built cumulatively. Cycles ensued. Up. Down. Good. Bad. One digital storefront was an awful idea. One an excellent idea; until the store shuttered its downs. The next one rocked until it, too, folded.
The World Is Change
The biggest mistake every non enlightened human reading this post makes every single hour – me included – is to cling to a world guaranteed to change the next split second.
I do it.
You do it.
Clues:
- complaints
- grievances
- suffering
- pain
- blaming
- condemning
The only way out of this can of worms is to change your mind about how the world functions. Being mentally flexible invites one to change with change. Peace of mind follows; worldly success typically follows for the mindful, trusting blogger who honors a proven, simple system consistently.
Why I Teach
I suffered many blogging mistakes prior to Blogging From Paradise and post Blogging From Paradise.
I am a good teacher explicitly because I fuck up from time to time. I know what the mistakes look like. I know how it feels to struggle. I know the solutions to errors, too.
For example, I rarely did it, but when someone trades backlinks I know the nature of this error and the seamless solution of publishing thorough content and bonding with resonant readers. I can skillfully teach bloggers making the identical error of trading links to create and connect their way to high quality backlinks. I walked that exact journey.
Being open-minded to address change-induced errors (or any error) keeps you going. I easily would have quit blogging 17 years ago unless I peeled open my mind to address errors, to follow guidance from pros and to correct the errors. Blogging success progressively found me based on trusting this simple process.
But the ping pong ball effect influences every entrepreneur who ever lived.
Change is life.
If things do not bounce around on a level of form it means no growth.
Gain Momentum as the Ball Bounces
I bounced around for years but perhaps my one superhuman special talent is to create content ruthlessly (or to be prolific) as the ball that is my blogging career bounces. I maintained success momentum even as results waxed and waned with change.
I think a bit south of 700,000 Ryan Biddulph tweets dot the X-Sphere as this post publish date.
That’s a helluva lot of content.
I tweeted through thick, thin and all in between to sustain that number.
Google Plus came. Google Plus went. Blab thrived. Blab disappeared. Two YouTube channels o’ mine got disappeared for completely unknown reasons. My Instagram handle suffered 180 day suspensions twice for reasons known perhaps to God but not mere mortals.
Never perceive these facts to be personal grievances. I give a rat’s rectum less about the ping pong ball bouncing because all roads lead to Rome…….and Blogging From Paradise.
Lessons from a Veteran Blogger
I want to share a few lessons based on my experience of being put in the blogging spin cycle for stretches:
- own your blog by investing money in your domain and hosting
- engage in some form of mind training to become aware of fears in mind holding back your blogging growth
- give attention only to loving, respectful blog readers and social media followers; starve the riff-raff of blogging attention because feeding ’em wastes devastating stretches of fruitless time
- create content for your blog and offsite channels consistently
- surround yourself only with successful bloggers to learn their ways
- fine-tine your blogging strategy to change with the times, on a level of form
- invest 100% in your blogging principles, or values, no matter what change occurs on a level of form
That’s it guys.
