I recall a long time ago. I slammed into blogging struggles. For a few reasons, I hit severe resistance. Hardship hurt me. I suffered. But for odd reasons, I stuck my head in the sand, complained about my struggles and did nothing to actually learn from the tough times. I was a dolt. I admit it.
Eventually, I began to observe why I slammed into blogging struggles. I did a few silly things. I paid for dirt cheap hosting. Aha! No wonder my blog crashed often and my blog load times seemed snail slow. Investing more money – and changing hosts – improved my uptime and speed, blog-wise.
But I had to address another problem. My traffic and profits slowed down quite a bit. Why? I ceased complaining about my struggles and chose to learn from my errors. Turns out, publishing a high volume of posts to my blog sans networking, making friends and engaging in genuine blogger outreach hurt my ability to scale. I depended solely on my efforts to succeed. Not a good thing. Bloggers need friends to add a passive, powerful, leveraging element to their blogging campaign.
I networked generously and genuinely, put in the time, and began making friends with top bloggers. As my friend network grew I slowly but surely increased my traffic and profits through the generosity and loyalty of my blogging buddies. I ceased complaining. I began learning. Everything changed through my powers of observation. I watched, owned errors, learned and benefitted from my blogging mistakes. Everything changed the moment I stopped whining about struggles and started learning intimately about my mistakes.
Change course. Stop complaining about blogging struggles. We all struggle from time to time. No one is immune from struggling but only a select few cease complaining and choose to learn from their errors. Dive into the muck. Feel fears fueling your errors. Suck it up. Feel the pain. Nudging into frustration is a starting point for putting struggles in your rear view window. Begin to watch your blogging actions. What needs to go? Do you try to do everything by yourself? Do you try to be a blogging lone wolf? What can you outsource to other pros? Why don’t you make friends by generously and genuinely helping other bloggers?
Spotting errors moves you in a different direction. You’re learning! Good for you. Now take these lessons and put them to good use. Move in the opposite direction. Versus publishing posts solely to my old blog for years, I began guest posting freely on other blogs. I learned how to apply the principle of leveraging. Reaching out into new communities became simple; I made friends with bloggers, improved my writing skills by practicing my writing and blogging buddies invited me to guest post on their blogs.
Following the basics felt uncomfortable sometimes because my ego did not wish to believe successful blogging was doing simple things generously for a long time. Fortunately, I did not trust my ego, and instead listened to my heart. Any time I felt urges to make the same, stupid errors fueling my struggles I stayed on the blogging straight and narrow to create and connect generously, genuinely and persistently.
Own your blogging errors. Correct your blogging mistakes. Move in a more prospering direction. Complaining about your blogging mistakes is not enough. Anybody can do that. Learn! Do you find yourself being short on blogging time? Rather than complain about your time-consuming job or family life, buy my eBook to save blogging time, correct your errors, be efficient and begin succeeding.
Complainers struggle until they decide to learn from their errors.
