Do you surround yourself with empowered, successful, compassionate bloggers?
Or do you seek out any blogger on the blogging block?
Surrounding yourself only with successful bloggers provides you with a strong support network during tough times, good times and everything in between. Even better? Successful bloggers teach you how to succeed. Pros inspire you during rough patches.
Pros also give you the steps, nurturing and kick in the butt we all need at times to get you along the blogging journey. But you need to surround yourself with these folks if you want to succeed online because pros teach you the way while all other bloggers cannot teach you the pro way.
Imagine befriending new bloggers. How can new bloggers help you succeed? How can new bloggers teach you to go pro? New bloggers have no experience, no knowledge and no genuine posture. Why would you befriend bloggers who cannot give you what you need to know in order to succeed?
Maybe it feels comfortable to surround yourself with new or struggling veteran bloggers but this crowd cannot teach you how to succeed. If anything, any bloggers outside of pros teach you how to struggle, fail and complain about the process. A select few future pros dot the new blogger niche but few and far between. Leave new bloggers in your rear view mirror. Surround yourself only with experienced, high energy, pro bloggers who uplift you, challenge you and nudge you along on your pro blogging journey.
Making friends with pros feels uncomfortable for many new bloggers because newbies often put pros high up on pedestals, building these folks into something special. Pros are human beings just like new bloggers are human beings. Never make them more than they are; they are just like you. But fears arise if you consider befriending pros because pros may challenge you, tell you the truth in direct fashion and also may not pander to your complaining or whining about your struggles. We all vent from time to time but if complaining becomes a normal thing, you are hanging in the wrong blogging circles.
Let go anyone save experienced, pro bloggers. Befriend these pros. Learn from them. Help them. Comment genuinely on their blogs. Promote them on social media. Promote them on your blog. Make inroads with these people. As the two of you bond, you will get insights into how to pros do things. Pros – it turns out – do things quite differently than most bloggers. Otherwise, they would not be pros.
But pros also point out your tender inner weaknesses in the form of ego blind spots, excuses, complaining and all crutches on which you base your blogging struggles. Learn from pros versus shying away from them. Befriend these leaders. Serve them. Bond with them. Why would you befriend anyone else blogging-wise? The goal is to be free and to succeed, not to reside in your comfortable, failing blogging box.
Give yourself credit; befriending pros gives you posture in knowing that you are worthy, clear and confident enough to actually reach out to these successful folks. Learn from the best by befriending the best. Perhaps not every pro decides to bond with you but more than a few will befriend you. Surround yourself with pros. Learn from the best. Become the best.
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