Why Would You Try to Make Your Blog Perfect? |

Ryan Biddulph March 7, 2026 blogging tips 🕑 6 minutes read

Venice California USA

Bloggers handcuff themselves consistently.

Some desire perfection.

Have you tried to write the perfect viral post?

Maybe you thirst for the perfect title yielding a sick number of clicks?

We have all been there. Check out page 1 of Google. See how closely some titles mirror these impossible goals.

Like it or not, the world usually punishes itself by seeking the impossible. Going after the impossible always leads to disappointment. I do not care how hard you try to reach impossible goals. It ain’t happening, my blogging buddies.

I have news for you.

Perfection does not exist in an imperfect world.

Worthiness issues in the mind fuel the perfection obsession.

I discovered this after blogging taught me some harsh lessons without sparing the rod.

Blogging took me behind the woodshed and tanned my hide.

I had to face, feel and look past deserving issues before writing helpful content to drive organic traffic.

Unfortunately, this is how the process goes for most of us.

Blogging feels burdensome at times because you and I cling to heavy mental baggage.

Worthiness issues plague human beings.

Deserving fears sit deep in the unconscious mind.

When you feel unworthy, the mind seeks perfection as a cure to the perceived lack of worthiness.

Maybe if you are perfect, then year, you can finally deserve organic traffic and blogging income.

Or so the thinking goes.

But since perfection does not exist, worthiness never manifests and organic traffic and/or blogging income never consistently follows.

My Blogging Secret

I have a little secret to share with you.

I never tried to make Blogging From Paradise perfect.

OK; perhaps no one sees this as being a secret closely guarded by yours truly. I routinely share my mistakes. I enjoy sharing my failures. Why shouldn’t I be your blogging guinea pig?

Yet this is a secret to bloggers who actually attempt to make blogs perfect.

Every one feels less than deserving. None feel good enough to succeed. At least during infantile blogging stages, no one feels worthy enough to go full time. This is why we practice blogging like the dickens and get clearer in mind to fully accept ourselves. This is also why I wrote the blog post. Unconscious patterns like deserving issues rule blogging careers but most have no clue in hell about the deep, dark, inner world behaving like the sick wizard behind the blogging curtain.

Some spend hours updating one or two blog posts to re-publish those suckers. I do not believe there’s anything wrong with updating content. I do it myself. But if you spend two hours updating two posts, did the work suck that horribly at the outset? Or did you fall victim to the dreaded blogging perfection curse?

I hate to say it but you became prey to the myth of blogging perfection.

How Perfectionism Works

Bloggers who feel undeserving try so damn hard to publish the perfect post. Some spend 5-10 hours writing a single blog post. In their mind, everything needs to be perfect because otherwise they will feel bad, undeserving and failure will inevitably follow.

After publishing the perfect post something depressing happens: if people show up or look past the post, the blogger still feels undeserving. Something worse happens. Fans show up to praise you but their praise does not remove your unworthiness in mind. Something even worse happens. Critics show up to skewer you and your blog which amplifies your lack of worthiness in mind.

Something even worse happens.

Now you need to work even harder to be deserving. Now you need to be even more perfect to drive organic traffic and blogging income. Now you really need to spend, maybe, I don’t know, 2 or 3 days:

researching
writing
editing
publishing
promoting

the perfect blog post in your mind.

Perhaps you take that route.

But after 3 days pass – the perfect post manifested – something even more crippling happens.

The same process unfolds.

Fans praise you. Critics hate you. Both reveal that the lack of deserving sits in your mind.

The worthiness problem is not out there in the world but in your head. Consider this good news. No one controls the world out there. Everyone can control their inner world.

Maybe you choose to smarten up versus trying to publish the perfect blog post, once again.

Perhaps you understand that in an imperfect world, perfection never exists.

How about reaching this goal?

Be truly helpful.

Be Truly Helpful

People want help.

Readers want truly helpful content.

Do you know how many bloggers beat the shit out of themselves over the perfection curse?

You bet your sweet rump that this post came at the perfect time for them. The perfection-focused lot dripping with deserving issues needs to understand one thing: readers want help not the perfect post. People want something to improve their lives. Humans want practical guidance to solve their problems.

No suffering blogger cares about how perfect this blog post appears to be on a level of form.

But every suffering blogger wants practical tips to follow to put suffering behind them.

Imagine anyone hellbent on critiquing their work mercilessly for their perfection curse.

Processing this post can instantly solve their perfection problem.

Now this suffering lot can simply write a detailed, truly helpful guide to gradually drive organic traffic and blogging income without the drama, self-criticism and obsession with blogging perfection.

Sloppy Helpfulness Beats Brilliance that Nobody Sees

People want practical guidance even if said guidance is sloppy.

Only assholes who secretly hate themselves pick apart sloppy helpers a bit rough around the edges. Good luck trying to build your tribe on biting critics who secretly despise themselves but project it outward as criticism for the sheer terror of looking within.

On the flip side, brilliant bloggers weighed down by worthiness issues hide their blogs from the world. No one sees their brilliance. For all intents and purposes, their brilliance does not exist. Who cares? Being imperfect and consistently helpful leads to a pro blogging career. Being brilliant but unseen due to deserving issues leads to quitting.

I have a good idea for you.

Publish truly helpful, detailed, practical guides to solve reader problems. Genuine readers committed to improving their lives deeply appreciate your help. Appreciative readers who put your guidance into action deeply believe in you. Loyal readers buy your stuff, hire you, drive referral traffic and grow your referral business too.

I love watching this beautiful process unfold.

I help people without judging myself.

People appreciate my help.

Success manifests organically from there.

I put the perfection curse behind me what seems like eons ago.

I do my best. I let it go.

But do remember one important idea.

Practicing blogging for 1000’s of hours is a non-negotiable.

Practice Your Rear End Off

Never take this post as an excuse to mail it in.

Losing the perfect curse never means writing one or two substandard posts then expecting millions to flock to your blog to co-create millions of dollars with you.

Blogging – and the world – never works that way.

First, you practice diligently to manifest: