Time To Up My Game On WA Blogs!

So... As part of the new Super Affiliate program one thing that has become apparent is that we all need to up our game on Wealthy Affiliate blogging. In the past, for me at least, blogging's been the kind of thing I have only done when I feel inspired to do so. So my immediate response to a definitive blogging schedule is that it seems to me to feel a little too 'structured' - and not so spontaneous as I my psyche prefers!

I guess it's the creative in me that doesn't like to be bound by structure! I've always been more someone who prefers to write as I get inspired, rather than be confined to a structure, so this whole 'blog factory' thing has, if I'm to be honest, always sat a little uncomfortably with me... even though I have always created myself a blog calendar and the beginning of every month.

For those interested, see my tutorial on creating blog calendars: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-and-why-you-sho....

Ooooh... But regular blogging is important!

OK... I do completely get why we need to do this, and why we need to blog regularly. So don't get me wrong, I'm not rebelling against the need to blog here.... I suppose it's simply a case of me merely getting adjusted to it. :-)

The truth is, I know myself that writing regularly is the tonic I need to get my content creation ball rolling. I've done it so many times in the past, so why, when I stop for a week or two, do I find it so hard to get going again?

Myth busting

Let me now bust another myth, it's not because I don't enjoy writing. When I started this blog less than 150 words or so ago, I was wondering what on earth I have to write about. Yet a few hundred words in and guess what... I'm really enjoying it. The words, I think, are flowing well and I have plenty more ideas in my head for things to write about. It's a great feeling. But it doesn't stop me getting the 'blog writer's fear' again as I first put finger to keyboard the next time and start writing my next blog. On so this weird cycle continues every time!

So for me, starting to write a brand new blog post can often be a little paradoxical. On the one hand I fear where it may or may not lead. On the other, I also know, because it always happens this way, that once I do get going all will be fine - it always is!

So why do I worry about it at the very beginning. It always works out fine, but the fear factor still remains at the very beginning. I really have no way to explain it. The only real issue is that this strange fear can cause me to delay starting to write my next blog, which is ridiculous as, time and time again, when I get going the words just roll.

Mind over matter

The mind is a complex and also very odd thing. Especially when I think that I have to fool myself into a start... simply just to get started at all!

But I also guess that I'm not alone in this weird and counter-creative mindset. \

So if this post does nothing else other than to help others realize they too are a lot like me, then that has to be a good thing. We can all recognise our similarities and know that we are not alone and yet we all manage to churn out our content.

There... I've laid my blogging demons out to dry. Now 600 words in and I've now written what I hope is a blog post that is helpful to you the reader. It certainly is for me as the writer. Just writing this post and airing my dirty blog laundry I know will help me approach my next blog post with a little more ease. Here's hoping!

Thank you dear reader for listening. :-)

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Kindest regards,

Sean