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1 Lesson Learned from Blogging for 12 Years

Wow.

After my mass unfollow over on Twitter I noted being on the platform since 2008. That is a long time. 12 years online is similar to living 100 years on planet earth; few people do it. Why? Most humans do not care for themselves mentally and physically offline; a premature death follows because your body gets the signal it’s time to go.

In the online world, most bloggers die premature deaths because they never master the singular blogging lesson I learned after blogging for 12 years. This is the lesson of lessons. Come close. Pay attention.

Blogging gets easier over the long term if you routinely make uncomfortable decisions over the short term.

I felt tired today. Feeling a bit run down, my intuition told me to write a post or guest post then sleep for a bit before writing the next post or guest post. Cool. I trusted my gut, wrote the posts and guest posts and my day is almost done at 7 PM, even though I feel run down. How did I write and publish 3 guest posts and 1 blog post on a day when I feel really tired? Writing 1 blog post and 3 guest posts feels easy to me NOW because I made uncomfortable short term decisions routinely over the past 12 years.

12 years ago, I felt frustrated after writing 300 words. I hit writer’s block. But I made the routine, uncomfortable decision to write a few more words daily. I wrote 300 some days, 500 other days and 350 on some days. I chose to do freeing, uncomfortable things on a day to day, short term basis, making scary short term decisions for a long time. Now I can write 600 word posts easily, 12 years later.

Blogging became easier and easier to me long term because I made scary decisions short term. Does that make sense? I could not write 300 words 12 years ago without slamming intro writer’s block. Now I can write 5 blog posts easily without even thinking about writer’s block. Blogging feels easy NOW because I made freeing and sometimes uncomfortable decisions almost every day over the past 12 years of your life. Doesn’t that make sense? Practice during tough times. Develop skills. Make blogging easy, long term.

Become a pro blogger 5 years down the road. Comment genuinely on this post, tag me on Twitter and begin to build a relationship with me. Guaranteed, if 100 people read this post, 99-100 people feel uncomfortable, scared to comment or believe commenting is a waste of time because they see links over human beings. 99-100 times, blogging gets harder and harder for these 99-100 people because they made the foolish, short term decision to be comfortable today, sacrificing their blogging success 5-10 years down the road. Blogging will never get easier for these bloggers unless they begin making uncomfortable decisions daily to develop skills, confidence and clarity in self.

Bloggers gets harder, more difficult and seemingly impossible for bloggers because bloggers wimp out when faced with making freeing, short term, uncomfortable decisions. Any human being reading this post can post a genuine comment below – I will approve it – and retweet this post by tagging me and sharing it. But most feel uncomfortable doing these things, skip the steps, and blogging becomes hard for them, as they skip success-promoting steps.

A select few bloggers make the freeing, short term decision to comment below genuinely, to retweet me, and to tag me. What happens? Eventually, by tagging me and by commenting on this post, you and your blog gain more exposure in front of my loyal, targeted Twitter following. Blogging will get easier and easier for you long term if you make freeing, uncomfortable decisions over the short term.

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Written by Ryan Biddulph

Ryan Biddulph is a blogger, author, and world traveler who's been featured on Richard Branson's Virgin Blog, Forbes, Fox News, Entrepreneur, Positively Positive, Life Hack, John Chow Dot Com and Neil Patel Dot Com. He has written and self-published 126 bite-sized eBooks on Amazon and can help you build a successful blog at bloggingfromparadise.com

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