Do You Need to Address the Getting Mechanism with Your Blogging Campaign?

This is a guest post by our top contributing author and travel blogger Ryan Biddulph. He is the founder of Blogging From Paradise, his course 11 Fundamentals of Successful Blogging and the author of more than 126 eBooks.

I came across a few social media updates today.

Various business owners published content designed solely to appease the “getting mechanism”.

Everyone is highly entitled to getting traffic and making money.

But if blogging becomes *all* about getting you usually struggle, fail and quit since *loving the blogging process* brings worldly rewards.

In rare cases, the getting mechanism yields great worldly success for folks clear on receiving money.

However, this crowd gradually learns that earning profits without passion is like consuming a diet consisting of bread and water. No matter how much bread and water you acquire and eat you will never feel satiated, fulfilled and flat out good.

Think through that analogy closely. Imagine hungering for more bread and water. First you do whatever you can to secure 100 loaves of bread. Chasing 100 jugs of water follows.

What do you have at the end of the day?

Bread and water for the next 50 days if you consume 2 loaves of bread and 2 jugs of water daily.

Does it feel good to subsist on bread and water, no matter how much you can get your hands on?

Nope.

Similarly, bloggers discover how acquiring more money without adding the passion component to the process does not elicit peace of mind, happiness, and freedom.

How can you live in peace if you feel empty each time you reach a new blogging income goal?

This is the getting mechanism in graphic action.

The Getting Mechanism

The getting mechanism knows one word: more.

Getters want to get no matter what.

The getting mechanism usually leads to failure since you need to love giving in order to lay a rock-solid foundation for your blogging campaign.

I listened to a mindset trainer a few weeks ago.

He noted how a few billionaires he spoke to initially tried to generate more billions before coming across his school of thought. Gradually, each of these getting mechanism folks learned how a deeper connection with spirit is the answer to their mental restlessness. Making more money to buy more yachts and more water skis is not the answer, this crowd eventually learned.

Blogging Review

I reviewed my blogging campaign recently.

Things moved along OK.

But I also took my foot off of the cyber pedal in the giving department.

I also seemed to be a little too focused on taking.

Lesson learned.

Blogging gets easier when you give and a lot tougher when you take.

By this, I mean the basic idea of being generous frees you to succeed. Helping readers freely increases your skills, exposure, and credibility in a wonderful way. Success genuinely sprints towards free givers.

Unfortunately, most bloggers focus on getting or taking. This getting mechanism in the mind ruins any possibility of becoming successful because how can you succeed when focused on trying to get as much traffic and income with as little as giving as possible?

True; we are all entitled to leverage our time and talents on some level. Reaching a high number of targeted readers per act seems to make sense.

But when taking or getting becomes the sole object of blogging you missed the point. Never mind the fact that succeeding becomes impossible if you skip the skills development necessary in order to succeed.

How Can You Be Helpful?

How can you be truly helpful?

Ponder this question for a while.

Give it deep thought.

For me, being truly helpful means writing and publishing blog posts, guest posts, and genuine blog comments. I do that best. Writing is in my wheelhouse.

Perhaps other talents resonate deeply with you.

Do you love podcasting? Maybe you enjoy creating videos. Perhaps you want to publish some other form of content.

Or maybe you are a master networker who does your best work on the social media side of things.

Whatever feels soulful to you simply go for it.

Doing what you love doing blogging-wise is an easy but sometimes uncomfortable way to let go the taking-getting mechanism from your mind. I am learning this a little bit more daily. Doing what I love doing moves the focus away from what I get from the doings. I seem less concerned with taking if I am busy giving.

Does that make sense?

How to Apply in a Getting-Focused Blogging World

Reading this post may feel all hunky dory to you.

Giving feels fun.

Obsessing over getting does feel stressful when you really think about it.

But 10 seconds after feeling good about giving and focusing less on getting you may see a post about how to get 6 figures through blogging.

Temptation arises. The urge to get seems powerful once again.

The ego rears its head again.

The getting mechanism seems alive and well again.

The only way through the getting mechanism and its seeming stranglehold on the blogging world is facing it head on and forgiving it.

You will never convince most bloggers to stop blogging about money outcomes because they really want it and readers seem to really want to make large amounts of money.

Both parties tend to suffer a rude awakening because even highly successful, top earners discover sooner than later that money does not make you permanently happy even if it appears to create permanent freedom.

Understand this concept and you will move on from the getting mechanism firmly and definitely.

Trying to make 6 figures does not give you lasting happiness.

Making 5 figures does not give you lasting happiness.

Lasting happiness occurs from within via mind training.

Sustained happiness is in giving not trying to get.

True giving never asks.

Before you fall prey to another 6 figure promise – legit or not – ask yourself if you want freedom, happiness, and liberation or to spend time trying to get a specific amount of an illusory means of exchange.

Thinking it through this way puts the getting mechanism in your rear window for good.