You dreamed of a blog and you did it. All the hard work, late nights and visions of awesomeness have landed you where you may be now: in the land of blogger burnout. You don’t know what to write about or you have a million ideas but you can’t summon up the motivation to plow on. You are not alone. Blogger burnout has killed some amazing blogs.
I was there too.
For weeks….a month…two months, I thought about opening up a document and writing. I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
How did I start again? How can you start again?
1. Stop being a realist
Blogging was so much different than I thought it would be. I realized that to truly make $$$ blogging, content needed to be “others focused” and help readers solve a problem, a.k.a: “I can’t just write about anything and everything I want to!” In addition, I needed to write amazing titles that stood out, I needed to keyword properly, learn how to optimize the murky waters of social media and grow, grow, grow my network etc. etc.
It was overwhelming and the reality was…I wasn’t reaching my blog goals. They seemed so far away.
To truly move forward, you may need to do what I did and take a step back. I realized that focusing on “reality” was not going to help me right now. Success does not come to those who speak what is, but those who speak life into what will be. A great example of this is the amazing story of Jim Carrey: