Do you fear becoming a successful blogger? I know this sounds weird. Crazy, even. Every blogger wants to be successful? Right? Wrong. Some secretly do not want to succeed – even if they work hard to succeed – for a wide variety of fears arising in response to being successful. Imagine if you fear friends and family will not love you and like you anymore if you make a lotta money through blogging. Think about if you fear taking on greater responsibility as your blogging success expands. Being successful means more critics; some deeply fear being criticized on a grander scale. The rough part is these fears feel secret, shying away, hiding deep within your being, while you publicly work hard, long and patiently, to succeed online.

Guess who wins? Fear. Fear leads to struggle, failure and quitting, no matter how much you work, or how smart you work. I worked like a stinking dog for a while during my new blogger days but struggled because deep down, my fears of success masked as fears of criticism and increased responsibility, caused me to self-sabotage. I would work smart for months, then, would panic and bail when things did not grow quickly enough for my ego. Facing deep fears, feeling deep fears and clearing deep fears freed me from secret success fears, allowing me to become more successful. Why? My inner world and outer actions were in agreement. I blogged with love, for fun, and observed loving, fun-feeling, successful results. Logically, we see this truth easily. But emotionally, feeling deep fears long buried in our being feels highly uncomfortable. Who enjoys crying their eyes out? Nobody; but the relieved, relaxed feeling after crying sessions is well worth shedding tears. Plus, the success you experience after feeling and releasing the fear of success is well worth a few emotionally messy moments.

Honesty is the only policy in life. Honestly observe how you really feel about being a successful blogger. Kick images of circling the globe, mansions and other deep desires out of your mind for a moment. Ask yourself if you fear how friends and family will react to your success. Some less spiritually evolved fam and friends may reject you, avoid you or feel intensely jealous in response to your success. Does it feel good to see friends and fam reject you? Nope. But sometimes, it happens. Accept how rejection may happen but remember how fun and freeing it’ll be to become a successful, pro blogger. Do you fear greater blogging criticism flowing your way? Feel the fear now. Accept how successful people attract big crowds of fans and a small group of critics, too. Embrace how critics quickly exit your life if you ignore them. As for the fear of responsibility, remember how blogging for fun, service and freedom is never a burden, but a blessing.

I navigated through a seeming minefield of fears to become more successful. Perhaps my greatest fear was the fear of greater responsibility. I feared working for 10 hours daily because I felt doing so impinged on my freedom. But the exact opposite became true. I loved having fun helping people for 10 hours daily and enjoyed my free spare time even more. Freedom expanded but only because I faced my secret blogging success fears. Do the same to liberate yourself from both these fears and the insidious forms of self-sabotage said fears create.

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