Indian Wells California USA
I victimize no one.
But everyone suffers from temporary stupidity.
I made some bone-headed decisions during my blogging career. Thank goodness that mindful bloggers thought for me at times. I wanted to take some blogging shortcuts but blogging mentors knew that I wanted freedom from time and location based on their vast experience. Accordingly, these pros served me detailed content to achieve freedom from time and location.
I eventually trusted these pros after some silly trial and error blogging.
I did what successful bloggers told me to do rather than scouring other blogs for dingbat blogging shortcuts.
Steady success followed after pros set me straight.
It may be a good idea to not give readers what readers want.
Imagine if blogging pros tried to give me the shortcuts that I wanted?
Leaders lose their reputations pronto by making false promises.
Readers only hurt themselves by chasing blogging windmills.
Give Readers What Readers Want
“Give your readers what they want.”
Right?
Wrong.
Well…..sometimes that is the wrong advice.
This is why thinking is important before following popular blogging guidance. Readers mindlessly parrot back blogging guidance that is far from absolute.
Not giving readers what they want is the best decision sometimes.
I’ll prove it to you.
What if Blogging From Paradise readers wanted guidance on how to:
- get rich quickly?
- drive easy traffic?
- manipulate readers into buying based on pressing deeply into fear, lack and scarcity terrors?
- use something artificial to do all of the work for you?
Imagine if I blindly followed the above common talisman of blogging wisdom. Hey; some of my readers wanted that stuff….right?
If I gave them solutions to the above desires, I would go completely against all that I value. I would cancel out my credibility, dissolve trust and betray my blogging brand, along with my blogging business.
Sometimes you need to think for your readers and give them what they want beneath the false desire.
Sometimes you want to give readers what is most freeing for them when they want something imprisoning that ultimately hurts them.
Never underestimate the power of unconscious resistance in the average person. People seek out what hurts them because of unconscious gunk in the mind. This is why people from the general public almost always wind up hurting themselves in some way, shape or form. They want something that simply will not work out well for them over the years.
Look at that Bullet Point List
Every desire from the bullet point list hurts bloggers by restricting them.
None of the wants are based on reality. Something for nothing does not exist in the blogging world. We give to get.
Using fear to scare money out of people opens a can of worms. Reputation loss follows, courtesy of scorned, angry readers who feel burned by your manipulative, predatory ways.
But beneath those self-punishing desires I know what is best for bloggers: each wants freedom, blogging success and liberation from time and location, as all human beings want. No one desires subjugation, blogging failure and trading time and location for money because each desire punishes, enslaves and bounds the self.
I think sanely for the temporarily insane. No; I do not mean insane as in “mental institution” insane. I mean those temporarily blinded by fear who make foolish decisions. Fear makes you want and do dumb stuff. We all know this. Spotting fear in other minds goads you to publish content which saves them loads of heartache.
In a way, this is what parents do with children. In a world of limits, you think for your child when they have no idea that the knife or electrical outlet will hurt them. You know what’s best for them. You know they want to play and have fun. So you hide the knifes, cover the electrical outlets and hand ’em stuffed animals, dolls or action figures.
What Do Readers Want?
Readers want to effectively solve their problems with your blog posts. Every blog follower possesses this core desire; otherwise they would not follow your blog.
I may look at the bullet point list above closely to understand that BFP readers want to successfully drive traffic, income and build trusting relationships with a loyal blogging community.
I published content to reach each of those goals because I think for my readers sometimes. Other times, I give readers what readers want if the ask does not hurt them but rather empowers them.
Spot the difference between desires that help or hurt readers.
Give readers only what helps them. Sometime this involves thinking for them.
People cannot help themselves in weak moments. Everyone behaves unconsciously from time to time. I do this. You do this.
Blogging unconsciously temporarily influences one to desire foolish ends. Maybe the passing thought comes and goes fast. But unconscious fear behaves in a sinister fashion. Deep fears scare bloggers into wanting what hurts them.
What is your blogging job?
Help readers in weak moments of unconscious reactions.
Look beyond their unwise ask to think for them.
Dig deeper than the initial desire to root out what the bloggers genuinely want. Consider what helps the individuals to look past what hurts the individuals.
Bloggers who crave to make money quickly really want freedom from time and location on some level. Teach readers how to achieve this goal with detailed blog posts packaged within a clear promise via the blog post title.
Stop Being Blogging Sheeple
Think independently.
Stop following common blogging guidance without thinking, questioning or deliberating.
Giving readers what readers want is a common blogging trope.
Thinking carefully about this strategy reveals that sometimes it helps readers to not give them what they want as I demonstrated above.
Nobody likes to think, at first. Most plow forward mindlessly to achieve specific goals as quickly as possible. Thinking deliberately demands bloggers to do some mental gymnastics, however uncomfortable the process becomes. Going from mindless to mindful usually entails facing fear. No one enjoys facing, feeling and looking past fear.
Thinking carefully through discomfort is worth the effort.
Conclusion
Give readers what helps them.
Sometimes it is what readers want.
Other times you need to do their thinking for them.
Nobody is a mindless victim in this world.
But some temporarily make foolish decisions.
Think a bit deeper to burrow under their delusions.
Empower your community with uplifting content.
