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I come across some well-meaning bloggers who try to rush the blogging process.
But this strategy never works.
One simple reason guarantees that this tactic leads to struggles, failure and quitting.
Rushing the blogging process always indicates that fear motivates you to rush. What is rushing but the fear of losing money, wasting time or some general idea of hurrying to avoid suffering?
Any time you blog from fear you skip the steps required for long term, lasting, exponentially increasing blogging growth.
This is why rushing the blogging process never works.
Literally, you skip the work required to build a successful business and take the steps required to torpedo your business.
Practical Example
I am setting aside a good hour or so daily to write, edit and publish a detailed, long form blog post on Blogging From Paradise.
Detailed, long form content is the gift that keeps on giving. Thorough content grows targeted traffic and blogging income organically over the long term. Imagine a “build it the right way and they will come” scenario.
I write and publish these types of posts because in my mind, I feel peaceful, relaxed, calm and whole…..largely, at least.
Imagine if I tried to rush the blogging process?
I would probably write and publish thin, weak, short-form content spanning 400-600 words.
Super short form posts generate almost no organic, passive, targeted traffic and business. Thin posts rarely if ever become the foundation for a thriving, long-term, exponentially increasing blogging business. Sure you can write ’em and yes some might be helpful but few become content assets that drive organic traffic and profits over the long haul.
This is just one example of how rushing the blogging process guarantees that you skip all the blogging steps that it takes to succeed and follow all of the blogging steps required to struggle, fail and quit.
General Delusion
Despite being warned about the dangers of rushing the blogging process from professional bloggers most bloggers delude themselves into believing that they can ignore the way to succeed and still become successful.
100% of these bloggers struggle, fail and quit because if you skip successful steps and follow failing steps you will fail every single time.
Stop deluding yourself. Stop lying to yourself. Be honest with yourself.
Slow and steady wins the blogging race.
Take Your Time Because if You Plan to Be Around You May as Well Do it Right
One wise blogger advised that if his readers planned to be around that they may as well do what it takes to succeed rather than rushing the process and failing.
This makes sense, right guys?
Bloggers often err in rushing the process as if they won’t be around. Why do you rush anything? People rush because people fear not having enough time to do something and not achieving some outcome. Yet rushing the process guarantees blogging failure.
If you plan to be alive for a while the only sane choice is to use that time wisely to have fun and to succeed. Any other strategy is insane because it is based on fear and fear makes you do insane, failing, depression-inducing things.
Here’s the secret: the fear comes from your mind.
Fear Is Only in Your Mind
I come across bloggers who explain how they need to make money quickly because each fears going broke and the various suffering aspects of living in poverty.
Being afraid, with that fear of poverty sitting only in their mind, these bloggers blog from an insane, panicked strategy and fail every time.
Since this crowd did not face the fear sitting in their mind they projected the fear onto forms in the world (blogging, their body, their lack of finances, their lack of food, their lack of shelter) and did the insane thing of skipping every successful blogging step to guarantee failure.
The secret of a free, peaceful, happy life is to train your mind to understand that your experience is your mind being reflected back to you.
If you try to rush blogging, stop right now. Face fear sitting only in your mind. Feel it. Forgive it. Proceed to blog patiently, persistently and generously to succeed over the long term.
Get a job right now if you appear to need money now. Trust your intuition; it will lead you to money or it will lead money to you.
Never treat blogging as a quick way to pay bills because this insane strategy never works over the long haul.
This is like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos and Lakshmi Patel saying the first day that they began building their business empires:
“From day 1, I will start this business to pay my bills.”
Sounds insane, right?
Sounds funny, actually.
Well guys, believing that a blogging business will pay your bills is as insane and funny as these titans expecting the same results because blogging is a business that only grows slowly, steadily and organically based on the patience, persistence and generosity of the business founder.
I can assure you that success will find you if you create and connect generously for the long haul.
Everything depends on your willingness not to rush but to take your blogging time.
Be Generous
Be patient, persistent and generous.
Give away your stellar work through free, detailed blog posts.
Create courses and write eBooks to establish passive income channels.
Offer freelancing or coaching services.
Emphasize a “give away the farm” approach to gain massive exposure and rock solid credibility over the long haul.
Simply put, you keep giving freely of your time and talents while monetizing your blog.
Organic blogging growth expands quite nicely but only if you slow down, calm down, trust yourself and trust the blogging process.
Blogging is never a quick, easy way to pay bills. Get a job to do that.
But as a long term business model, blogging can offer you a life of fun and freedom as your success accelerates.
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