Do You Love Blogging or Need Something from?It?
You probably have not read a blog post like this.
That’s OK.
Most bloggers want you to do something for them. Most bloggers need something from blogging; organically, they need something from you.
That’s OK, too. Been there. Needed that.
But if you need something from blogging and people like:
you slowly — or quickly — attempt to:
human beings to get what you want because of fears in your mind feeding your needing.
At best, this makes you nice but manipulative and perhaps passive-aggressive. At worst, this makes you a lying, piece of shit, scammer.
I promise to always do my best job of not being a lying, piece of shit, scammer. I love blogging. I do not deeply need anything from it. Even when I experienced little blogging success I had to develop the skill of needing nothing from blogging in order to love it for helping people.
Why Love Blogging?
Do you love blogging?
If you love blogging you blog mainly to help people. Blogging mainly to help people builds your:
Skilled, trusted bloggers seen in many spots organically position themselves to go pro not by needing anything but by loving the process of helping people.
The less you need something the more you get it. The less you need someone the more that someone plays their most beneficial role for you and them, whether it be in or out of your life.
Do you need something from blogging? If so, that never turns out well. Either you struggle, fail and quit because desperation repels or you develop the insidious skill of manipulating people with fear to get what you want before losing your reputation and vanishing.
One allegedly successful blogger during my early blogging days admitted to lying about his 6 figure income claims. He subsequently vanished from the blogging world because when you need something from blogging you better believe that blogging will take something from you, namely, your money and reputation.
Neediness
Re-read the first line of this blog post.
Observe most blogging tips that you come across today. Most preach getting something for yourself from blogging and people like:
Since you and I live a worldly life, this is A-OK. But only give a teeny weeny part of your mind to the getting mechanism or else blogging goes to custard. Everything falls apart sooner than later if you need something from blogging because what you need flees from you.
However, if you love blogging you need nothing from it. Needing nothing from blogging means using blogging as a tool for helping people. Helping people and needing nothing from them makes you:
Pay close attention to the most relaxed, high level bloggers.
Each high level blogger generously helps people and expects nothing through their blog content because each loves blogging and needs nothing from blogging. Organically, these leaders become highly successful because what you do not need flows in like an avalanche, slowly, steadily and exponentially over time.
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At last count, Gary Vaynerchuk boasted a net worth of $150 to $200 million depending on the sited source.
He:
the core business concept of loving and helping human beings.
He does not need anything from people. Nor does he manipulate people to get what he wants. He loves being an online entrepreneur. He loves helping people. Maintaining this vibe for 15 years allowed $150 to $200 million to flow to him yet he cares little about money because he cares almost exclusively about helping people.
I Do Outcomes, Too
I publish outcomes-based content based on getting traffic and money.
Guilty as charged.
But I also place most emphasis on loving, serving and helping through free content with virtually no expectations.
That’s the key. That’s the rub.
Imagine 99% of your mental activity being:
and 1% of your mental activity being:
Until you become enlightened, selfishness, greed and desperation occupies a tiny or large portion of your mind.
That’s OK. Forgive yourself as I repeatedly forgive myself.
Simply begin to make the shift from needing something from your blog to loving blogging.
First, making the shift increases your peace of mind. Then, over time, as you have fun serving people, worldly success organically flows to you based on the shift.
Does that sound like an enjoyable and prospering way to blog?
Originally published at https://www.bloggingfromparadise.com on September 14, 2022.