Struggling hard to be a blogger? You might need to realign your mindset

The road ahead is unknown, what will you do?

Are you the one who wish to become a professional blogger so badly at the first place but as time goes by you kind of run out of this motivation juice? You started to questioning yourself that “Is this what I really wanted?” and you doubt yourself each time for your answers, lack of skills maybe? Well sometimes it is not about the skills set, it is about your mindset. You might have the best skill but without a proper mindset, you will not feel happy, you will not enjoy the path. If you ever feel that way, it is time to journey inward.

1. A reason to be

This is the first and the most important point to start off with, you should find the reason why you should be a blogger. The WHY here I did not mean profit, it is a purpose, it is always have to be a purpose larger than yourself, why you do you decided to become a blogger? Why you did not choose to be just like what you had been told to get a normal job instead? Why should anyone bother to read your post? You reason can be a little bit irrational one but it MUST be a solid one such as “I believe the world can be change to a better place through my written words” or it can be as simple as “I believe my blog post may inspire readers from within”, yes it may sounds funny and unrealistic, people might make fun of you, even your closest friends and families, but come to think of it, if the Wright brothers are thinking realistic that time like anyone else, I believe we will not have aero plane until today, who will be crazy enough to try to bend metal and making it fly on the sky? That does not sounds REALISTIC at all isn’t it? If you heard of the story of The Wright brothers, they did not do it for fame, money or glory, they believe that if they can successfully invent this flying machine, it could change the course of the world and with this reason, they succeed, of course with a lot of hard work. So WHY do you wanted to blog?

2. A will to act

Nothing will come to flourish without actions, a dream will always stays as a dream if you let it be. So after you have found your reasons, you need to understand that to accomplish anything, a strong will is a must, else it would be just another regret that you will be talking to your grandson about. If you think you should improve your writing skill, you must have a will to take in the initiative to try to develop a practice or a routine for your skills, a will to go and read a lot of tutorials in how to write or what to focus on a blog, a will to make yourself to complete writing a blog post every day or every week and etc.; for this section I had to quote one of my favorite quote from Will Smith:

“The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft." - Will Smith”

It is not a competition between you and others, instead it is a competition between you and yourself, so remind yourself to get better when you are starting to get lazy or giving up, a strong skill with a constant will is much powerful than you think.

3. An idea to share

We as human is a social being, it is hard to be alone all the time, we need friends and families to share our thoughts. I believe you will feel good by sharing ideas with person who has a common moral value or thinking and sometimes you all might create something amazing in the middle of the conversation. So another way to get motivated is to look for someone who shares the same value but have a completely different way of expressing it. confused? Well, you will know when you notice one. It is important to look for those people or friend because they can help you to spread your WHY or reasons to attract those others to have the same values you do, in fact those friends are actually doing it for themselves at the same time as well. If your type of blog is about food for instance, you will have people who really know how to search for new or special café or food stalls which suits your style, you will be busy enjoying writing post about what you love, furthermore you can enjoy it with the people together, how cool is that?

Conclusion

I hope these few tips will help you to realign your mindset to a better one and hope it will make you have some serious thoughts about what you do (in this case being a professional paid blogger), if you think you only blog just to past some time then I suggest you forget about quitting your job and being a full-time blogger because you will not be happy about your choice and will give up eventually, at last I hope this post will help not just about blogging but as a life, may the force be with you good luck.