New respect - Blogging takes lots of effort and work

Over the weekend I was doing research on my niche, reading things and doing what we do. Ideas were flowing freely and in great quantity! I love my niche and know I truly have years of learning ahead.

I kept checking keywords and the same site kept coming up time after time. I would check the article out and I never found anything but really good content and the niche covered from every possible angle I was coming up with. So instead of just reading an article I visited the site to see what all was there.

Playing guitar is something I enjoy and have fun with, not as much or as well as I used to, but really enjoy myself and appreciate watching and listening to any accomplished player. Sometimes seeing one of those players made me just want to keep my guitar in its case. Some people are just that good. This blog had a similar effect.

The feeling I had was one of awe and admiration, but also like seeing a prodigy perform. Each one of those articles represented so much more to me than they did before I started WA. The time that must have been spent, the research, the fantastic info graphics, Captivating headlines...

The visit had a double-edged effect, one hand I marveled, on the other that tiny voice of cannot was getting louder. You cannot match that, your ideas have already been executed very well, no way.... well I think you get the message.

Instead of looking at the path I saw the mountain and the stars and was overwhelmed at the immensity of it all. I recovered fairly quickly and got back to my site and my research, but was reminded of how easy it could be to let that negativity and cannot do it attitude walk me right away from my desired path and stated goals.

Looking at my site now, I like my layout much better than the other and the mobile responsiveness too :) OK just 100 or so more articles and reviews to do, but hey what else should I be doing?

I do not feel discouraged now about it, it has generated respect for that sites owner and how hard they have worked. I want to work that hard too.

Not giving in to my defeatist mentality and doing something positive to improve my site every single day is the antidote.

I want to be the competition.

Thanks for reading and hit the like button if you can relate, or please comment and let me know how you cope with moments of discouragement.

Have a great evening,

Doug