I have no issues blogging about my life these days.
12 years ago as a newbie? Fat chance. I felt severe fear even thinking about my life offline, or, blogging about my….well…..blogging. Self-conscious fears arose. Doubts reared their ugly heads. I felt flat out awkward sharing my offline life online and yes, even sharing my online life, online. Fear does that. Fear makes you want to act some perfect life, through your blogging platform. Fear makes you want to set up a perfectly-crafted persona. But guess what? Setting up a persona guarantees you do not blog in genuine, honest, authentic fashion.
I waded through uncomfortable emotions. I felt fears. I began blogging about my life. From my mom’s illness, to financial woes, to simple travel stories, to more colorful travel experiences, I began sharing each even though doing so made me feel raw, vulnerable and a bit self-conscious. Making this move became prospering because I stripped away all of the self-conscious fears seemingly crippling the whole of the blogging niche.
I know more than a few bloggers who deeply fear revealing tidbits from their offline life. Some simply want to keep things private from a clear, posturing energy. I get that. But far more bloggers fear sharing offline details online for many deep fears they need to face, feel and release, to do so. Such fears usually hold back their blogging campaign. Imagine bottling up the deep fear, pain, suffering and grief of caring for an ailing parent? How do you feel this fear-pain would affect your blogging campaign? Forget nobody knowing your fear-pain; YOU harbor the fear-pain energies, grossly influencing your vibe and your blogging career.
On a much deeper level, the fears of being vulnerable, transparent or even criticized may dance through your mind. Perhaps you fear being honest about your fears and pains concerning caring for an aged, ailing parent comes off as fishing for pity, for your pity party. Who knows? Ego is deep, literally insane, and creates all types of fears holding you back. I feared looking weak, feeling raw and appearing to be vulnerable, sharing big fears, losses, failures, pains and sufferings over the years.
But sharing my fears and failures made me human in the eyes of readers who assumed I was a robot, inhuman and living in a totally different universe. People believed I was some type of blogging machine, publishing content at a robotic clip. Turns out, I am prolific and more fearless NOW because I faced, felt and released many deep, pulsating fears over the years. Do you really think writer’s block is gonna scare me into not writing a blog post? HA! I have faced death during my world travels, multiple times. I also faced immense suffering through offline experiences that make writer’s block child’s play, to me and my mind.
Fears may arise in my mind concerning writer’s block but I face these small potatoes, feel the fears and proceed to write and publish guest posts and blog posts. Life becomes easier if you share offline experiences online because you face, feel and release deep fears, accelerating your blogging growth. Sharing offline-life details through your blog allows you to be genuine. Being genuine makes you feel good in your own skin. Being honest may feel uncomfortable at times but at least you feel moral, ethical and truthful in all you do.
Feeling uncomfortable blogging about your life signals the need to delve into fears. Some disconnect exists between online persona and the REAL YOU if you fear blogging about your offline experiences. Nudge into these fears. Be the real you, through your blog. Jump the chasm between robotic blogging persona and real person. Accelerate your blogging success by being genuine.
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