This is a guest post by Ryan Biddulph. He shares smart blogging tips at Blogging From Paradise.
I spent 30 seconds pondering the title for this guest post.
Discomfort arose in my being. I observed:
- frustration
- agitation
- an urge to not write the guest post
surface in my mind. I felt the feelings. I released the feelings. I wrote the guest post.
Logically, this process sounds clean, neat and orderly. Emotionally, the process felt unpleasant because I do not enjoy feeling frustrated, agitated or like a quitter. Do you enjoy feeling these emotions? I did not think so 🙂
But I felt the feelings, hugged the emotions and released the energies. The idea for sitting with blogging discomfort entered my mind. I took it from there.
How often do you sit with blogging discomfort?
Or do you avoid uncomfortable emotions concerning your blogging campaign? Blog traffic sits outside of your comfort zone. Blogging profits sit outside of your comfort zone. Blogging business sits outside of your comfort zone. Freedom sits outside of your comfort zone.
The only way to edge outside of your blogging comfort zone is to ease into blogging discomfort. No human being enjoys feeling uncomfortable emotions. No person savors feeling fear. But the price of avoiding discomfort is steep; blogging struggles, failure and eventual quitting greets bloggers firmly ensconced inside of their comfort zones.
All blogging struggles originate inside of your comfort zone.
Imagine if you fear guest posting. Perhaps you fear pro bloggers rejecting your guest post pitches. Rather than wade into fear you avoid guest posting. Traffic and profit struggles plague your blogging campaign because you avoid facing, feeling and releasing the fear of guest posting. Avoiding discomfort guarantees your failure. Does that sound like a wise trade off?
Edge into the fear of guest posting.
Embrace the illusion of rejection. I appeared to be rejected a few times early during my guest posting career. But feeling these uncomfortable emotions removed the illusion. I observed the truth: bloggers may prefer writing styles different than your writing style. I only made this realization because I faced, felt and released the fear of rejection. Losing the fear of rejection reveals how human beings harbor personal preferences completely independent of you, your skills and your abilities as a blogger.
Edge into blogging discomfort.
Never cower to writer’s block. Stick around. Savor the frustration. Feel the anger. Hug the agitation. Allow these energies to exit your being. Clear fear. See clearly. Access unlimited blog post ideas by feeling uncomfortable emotions suggesting one can actually suffer from writer’s block.
Consider engaging in practices like meditating and doing yoga. Edge outside of your comfort zone. Habitually nudge into discomfort offline to develop the habit online.
Surround yourself with bloggers who value freedom over ducking fear. Follow their lead. Learn from their example. Blogging success flows to you well outside of your comfort zone. Sit with uncomfortable feelings. Watch how your mind and its illusory fears attempt to derail your blogging campaign. Lose bloggers surrounding you who make excuses, who complain and who never seem to edge forward into increased success.
Get comfortable with being highly uncomfortable.
Edging into discomfort seems to be a skill one develops after suffering through enough miserable conditions. I became familiar with being uncomfortable after experiencing a host of genuinely difficult life experiences over 10 years of my life. Either my life would become worse or I would free myself from these nightmares based on my willingness to make uncomfortable, freeing decisions. I chose to be free. I never looked back.
Hug discomfort.
Choose freedom.
Accelerate your blogging success.
