Blogging loss feels rough.
Being through the ringer definitely tests all of us. But one only goes pro by learning from blogging loss. Every obstacle comes with a successful lesson built in. Every challenge definitely comes armed with some win, some prospering opportunity, something to take with you to become more and more successful.
I learned some serious lessons during my 12 years online. Some of my biggest blogging losses taught me my best, most freeing blogging lessons. I learned how to be generous by holding back and suffering for a long time. I did not succeed for a bit because I had a horrible time being generous with my readers. I wanted to hold back. I wanted to get something for nothing. I had a tough time learning to let go. I had a horrible time trying to learn the basic idea: if you are super duper generous, you will have few problems in the blogging niche.
But if you hold back, it will be held back to you. I held back for a long time. I suffered immense loss in terms of my blogging business. But observing my blogging business loss taught me to be generous enough to get lost in helping people with free content, every single day.
Thank goodness I learned that lesson. Thank goodness I suffered that level of loss. I never could be the blogger I am today unless I suffered profound loss in the past AND learned valued lessons from the loss. Pain, suffering and fear definitely leaves a firm impress on the mind of any blogger willing to learn, to be open and to humble one self with some serious, clear blogging lessons, offered courtesy of learning. But ya gotta learn in order to to learn. Learn to learn. Be open, spot your blogging problems, learn serious lessons and take these lessons with you toward greater blogging success.
Learn from your blogging mistakes. Stop sticking your blogging head in the sand. Errors will not go away of their own accord. Nothing changes unless you change. Bloggers plow forward mindlessly as traffic and profits remain near nil for years. How do you expect to grow if you do not note your lack of growth? All success is progressive but reason enters the blogging fray, too. If you have blogged for 5 years and only attract 1 subscriber per year, you have some blogging lessons to learn through your loss. Learn ’em. Pay close attention to the lessons or the signs popping up around you.
Blogging profits struggles – as your blogging income dwindles to near zero – indicate a lack of giving generously. Help more people with free blogging content. Be more generous. Begin network generously and genuinely. Engage bloggers freely. Be a generous creator and connector. Learn your blogging lesson. Do not blog mindlessly, sticking your head into the blogging sand, trying to plow your way into a successful blogging career.
Using brute force does not work. Trying to do 1000 things daily does not work. Pushing harder does not work. All lead to eventual failure after you burn out miserably. Learning lessons from your loss works every single time. But the lessons you need to learn can be painful at first because your ego may want to complain about loss versus learning profitable lessons from loss. Bloggers bemoan traffic, profits and business problems. Few learn lessons from their loss by digging down into the root cause of their struggles.
The select few who do succeed simply learn lessons from their blogging loss versus complaining about loss or, versus feeling paralyzed by their blogging struggles.
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