Being Passionate About Things Is Not The Same As Being Passionate Writing Hundreds of Articles
Do you have something you are truly passionate about that you want to build a website about?
This is one of my greatest struggles with online income and building niche authority sites.
I have interests, of course. I have skills. But translating that into build a website on it just isn't a natural thing for me at all.
What is very strange is I can see it easily with other people. Talking to a cousin "You could build a website on that... write what you know and make some money from it down the road". Talk to a friend "you could build a website about that".
But for me... it is very difficult to do it for myself.
I love helping people. I like making simple computer games. I love personal development & mindset big time. I like fitness and exercising. I like computer programming. I like walking. I like photography. I love online business and marketing and online income generation. I enjoy pizza. I like my two dogs. I love the Philippines.
I enjoy helping others. I like to provide real value. And to lift them up. To see what they cannot see in themselves. To spend my time to help them. To share things I have learned to try to help their path be easier. There are many others who are this way. And many have done far more than I ever will be able to.
Although I have made many tiny computer games, there are many people more skilled than I am at making games especially as far as making graphics because I am not an artist.
There are people who have wrote books on mindset and personal development whereas I have only learned from reading countless books and applying what I learned. I am a huge believer in mindset limiting us or empowering us having experienced the power of shifting my own mindset over time.
I like fitness and exercising and especially bodyweight exercises (used to be into weights) but there are many people far more fit than I am.
I enjoy computer programming but so do millions of others and many are into exploring much more advanced stuff than I am interested in.
I enjoy walking and have walked well over 40 miles per week many times but there are others who do the same and more and countless websites on it.
I like photography but I am just a novice and know nothing about different lens, etc.
I love online business and marketing and building online income and have studied and experimented countless times but there are a huge number of people making $5k, $10k even $50k per month or more who are obviously far more qualified to be building websites on it than I am.
I enjoy pizza. And broccoli. And many other foods. I love coffee. So do millions of other people.
I like my two dogs but am not a dog expert by any means at all.
I love the Philippines having got a passport for the first time in my life near beginning of the year and taking two trips over there since. But there are others who live there as expats and have for decades.
Meaning & purpose is most important to me.
In all things I am into, even the things I am most interested in, there are always many other people who are much further into it, much more successful, more skills, more experiences than I have.
So I do not have any one thing that I am so passionate about that I feel like I should spend my time writing about it all to provide value to others because there are many other people who can do the same and already are.
But what is crazy is that if someone here wrote all of this or someone "in real life" told me this stuff I would tell them they do not need to be the very best they only need to focus on helping all of the people they can. All of the people who are not as far along, not as experienced in those areas as they are.
So that is a piece of my struggle but it goes beyond that.
I don't know if anyone else wrestles with this stuff. But this, for me, is my greatest challenge. Even when I realize that "yes, I know a good amount about certain things, I do have a lot of experience in certain things, that I am sure can bring some value to other people... but that doesn't mean I have passion to write hundreds of 1,500+ word articles on it.
Being passionate about subjects, having an interest in certain things is not the same as having a passion in writing a quarter of million words limited to seo based topics.
Am I the only one who wrestles with this? I keep thinking there has to be another way to take our experiences and skills and provide real value to other people other than sitting and writing countless articles of 1,500 words, 2000 words, etc.
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Hi JustAPerson,
It doesn't sound like you would have any problems making a website or writing any size articles on the many subjects you named. Don't overthink it just do it.
Don
It doesn't seem like it, I agree. In practice though even though I know how to kind of like easily write an article on anything (actually I even made a blog here on that)... I have zero enjoyment from it. Again mainly because all of the writing must be focused around these very specific search phrases because we are actually placing as much importance on writing for Google than we are on writing for humans. I mean not really but at the same time... yeah we really kind of are. lol
I definitely get having to work and am not lazy by any means. Many times in life we need to do things we absolutely hate doing. But I just don't think it makes sense to try to build an online income around doing work that brings you little enjoyment (writing articles solely around topics for seo). If you see what I mean.
My strengths are in problem solving, analyzing, identifying patterns, investigating and finding the root cause of things, designing a solution and then executing the solution.
I have done that with article writing as far as designing a solution to be able to fairly easily write about any topic... which is simply write FOR REAL. As in what I know about it, my experience with it, etc.
Figuring things out, designing solutions to interesting problems, becoming more efficient, more effective, increasing performance, helping others to do the same... that is what brings me satisfaction.
It's like niche research... I enjoy that. I find it interesting. Fitness... I like DOING it... but not necessarily writing about it. Writing about it what would be satisfying, or at least possibly interesting, would be looking at someone's specific goals (myself, my cousin, whoever, etc) and figuring out how to best get started and make progress toward a goal. Then reassess, design a new solution to go forward from there, etc.
Testing ad headlines, copywriting and testing changes to see the differences, improving over time that I find very interesting.
I like DOING things. Solving problems. Creating stuff. Helping people. I guess that is it.
Wow.... I really rambled on. Sorry about that. lol
Add one more to this list. I totally get what you are saying. I will add you are able to express yourself well. I look forward to the upcoming comments.
Mac
Yes, I do wrestle with this challenge the same as you, even though my niche is one I love and have a lot of experience in.
I've accepted that it is a learning niche for me and write a post for each assignment and learn how to create, manage and monetise my website.
This keeps me focused and slowly my writing skills are improving and getting faster. Perhaps you need to consider paying someone to write for you if this is holding you back. If you can afford it.
I've heard good reviews on Fivver and on Israel.
It's a challenge.
Lily 😁🎶
I actually tested that route of hiring article writers. From two different article writing services and also 2 people on Fiverr. I didn't see much difference in the writing on any of them and ended up scrapping entire articles in most cases and rewriting from scratch and heavily editing the one or two that seemed ok.
The main problem was that when they wrote about the topics of course they wrote about them only from an "academic" perspective weaving in the same kind of information that appears on so many websites as to be generic and lacked any of the specific insights I wanted to provide based on my own firsthand experience. Which, of course, makes sense I mean how could they provide that.
Anyway... you have hit on the bigger topic I think. I am becoming convinced more and more some people are simply more suited to different models.
For me... I think it may be some kind of like project manager, investor role. Basically like an investor model business builder model but not literally doing all of the brute force work myself.
Like if I could guide someone to do it... or invest into building someone else's businesses or just hire out all article writing and simply not care what they actually write. I just find that very risky though. Because first... what value is in there in hiring someone to basically search the web and collecting existing information and use it to write a new article and second literally legal risk if they make claims in the article.
Another option would be simply to focus on service oriented work. Focus on building a site with a small amount of content not based on seo topics that supports a Do It Yourself approach and then provide the Done For You service and spend money on advertising to reach the target audience.
At first, would need to price the service very low, or possibly even do it for free, to get some good testimonials. But then could start charging.
Anyway, I get what you are saying... it is definitely a skill... and the more we write the better we become at it. There is definitely value in developing the skill more than the average person has. And I don't mind writing but I absolutely hate writing around these specific seo based topics. And I think the sheer amount of writing required for this approach is just a bit on the insane side to be honest. Unless a person just loves writing so much that as long as they are writing anything they are happy.
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Great post and very thought provoking. I can completely relate to this.
Perhaps it might be worth considering a niche a little bit closer to home? After all if appears that you as an individual has a lot of topics that you appear well capable of elaborating on.
That way the niche is more broad ranging and allows you to expand as you go through life...never boring always new?! Just a suggestion...maybe within it you may find inspiration...
Hope you find a solution whatever path you choose, Jules
Thanks. I am working through it. I think a big part of success is a person following their passions. What drives them. What makes them feel the most alive and happy and fulfilled. It's different things for different people of course.
And this is why mindset & personal development is so important. Once a person gains that true clarity of purpose they can pretty much do anything.