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Harsh truths of Blogging

It is an amazing feeling to start up a blog. It is an opportunity to express yourself and expand in ways that you never know you could. And just like to start a business, a lot of effort. You can't be successful in blogging by any accident you need to put full attention and had to work even when you may feel to quit.

Here are 14 harsh truth you will learn in your first year of blogging. Please take this truth will a grain of salt -

1) No one cares about you. No one knows who you are

2) You will be blogging for months and months, creating amazing content and not everyone is going to see it

3) You will be spending most of your time on your computer, laptop or your phon

4) Not everyone has the mindset to be a blogger and you're going to find out the harsh truth if you're one of them or no

5) You will be frustrated by how painstakingly long it is to get your first 1000 subscribers or followers

6) You will be spending more time on promoting your content than creating it

7) You will get a lot of followers and also   unfollower

8) You will be comparing yourself to other bloggers 

9) You will find many reasons to quit and it's up to you to let those reasons get in the way

10) You will be confronted by all these harsh truth

11) You are going to meet amazing people like you

12) You will be admired for your generosity

13) Your dream life is worth jumping through countless hoops for

14) Nothing about the blogging world is instantly gratified

Lets see them- 

1) No one cares about you. No one knows who you are.

                                           

No one cares about you. No one knows who you are.

          

You are entering a sea of bloggers and no one knows you. you need to make yourself stand out from others by asking yourself...What am I good at? What kind of advice do people go to me for? What I am passionate about? What can I go hours on end talking about? This is an opportunity to create your voice on your strength in which you are naturally interested in and using that to help people and then people will start noticing you.

2) You will be blogging for months and months, creating amazing content and not everyone is going to see it.

                                       

You will be blogging for months and months, creating amazing content and not everyone is going to see it.

 

You must know that whenever you publish a blog post it almost takes 90 days to rank 1 on google and this is if your blog post is SEO friendly or search engine optimised. Meaning its searchable on search engines like Google, by using certain keywords. So don't feel bad if your post doesn't immediately get views the moment you get it out into the world it doesn't work that way. What you should do is assess each post take 90 days after it's been published, that way you will know whether it is working or not 

3) You will be spending most of your time on your computer, laptop or your phone

You will be spending most of your time on your computer, laptop or your phone

                                             

This is for a travel blogger, you will be spending most of your time on your computer, laptop or your phone not travelling because your time will be spent researching destinations, writing posts, learning how to use creative programs editing photos and videos if you are putting them out on YouTube, designing a graphic, posting on social media, replying to direct messages and e-mails etc. This list is endless 

4) Not everyone has the mindset to be a blogger and you're going to find out the harsh truth if you're one of them or not.

                                              

Not everyone has the mindset to be a blogger and you're going to find out the harsh truth if you're one of them or not.

A lot of people think that they need to be a good writer to blog or a good photographer or a good filmmaker or whatever it is, they don't realise is that these are skills they will learn as soon as they start blogging what's hard is having a mindset to push through and quiet honestly eat for a very long time and it is just a matter of really holding on even when you don't feel like it you have to be willing to be clumsy messy and embarrassed when starting something new you can expect yourself to be skilful and graceful right off the bad. 

5) You will be frustrated by how painstakingly long it is to get your first 1000 subscribers or followers.

                                            

You will be frustrated by how painstakingly long it is to get your first 1000 subscribers or followers.

                   

You will know it when you will work on it, it will take around 6 months to gain it from shifting from platform to platform and all this depends on how much you've made your post optimised for SEO and how much value you put into it but know that this journey can take a while and the more followers people see that you have the more likely they can follow you. So the more you have, the faster you will grow. You it's just gonna take a little while to get your first 1000 followers.

6) You will be spending more time on promoting your content than creating it.

                                        

You will be spending more time on promoting your content than creating it

You will be spending more time on promoting your content than creating it because no one is going to see the valuable content you are creating for them. So don't get demotivated because the time you are putting in promoting is very helpful to grow your business.

7) You will get a lot of followers and also unfollowers

                                          

You will get a lot of followers and also unfollowers

You are going to get a lot of followers and unfollowers and that's the nature of growing a following it's never linear your Followers will go up and then it will also down just remember when it goes down you are not losing your followers but your following is becoming much for loyal and stronger to you and that's much more important than having a larger number of followers who aren't genuinely interested in you.

8) You will be comparing yourself to other bloggers  

                                     

You will be comparing yourself to other bloggers

     

It is not good and it is especially not fair to you. You can't compare to someone whose level is 70 and you are only level 2. When this happens you might enter a not-so-good place and you are just putting yourself down. So, mute their accounts or stop following them.

9) You will find many reasons to quit and it's up to you to let those reasons get in the way.      

                                         

You will find many reasons to quit and it's up to you to let those reasons get in the way.

  

Most of the time we get into the way of our success as we usually tell ourselves in one version of another...I am not good enough, I am disappointed, I am a failure, I am doing everything wrong, I am not special, I am really bad at this, I am ugly, I suck, I unlovable and it's okay to have these thoughts that's what it means to be a human being and its natural to go through these emotions. Just to remind yourself that this inside voice is only a voice and this voice is not you and whatever it's saying is not true. Just take a break of 5-10 mins and throw them out.

10) You will be confronted by all these harsh truths

                                             

You will be confronted by all these harsh truths

You will be confronted by all these harsh truths and it will be worth it. You can't achieve what you dream until you see this truth. And start to sacrifice your extra need or else your dream may become a sacrifice.

11) You are going to meet amazing people like you 

                                             

You are going to meet amazing people like you 

You are going to meet amazing people like you and instantly become friends because not only do they understand the struggles firsthand but you also helped lift each other and we are talking about the community you are building and the connections you are making and the people in your industry number 

12) You will be admired for your generosity

                                             

You will be admired for your generosity

 

You will be admired for your generosity because you are willing to share your knowledge and experience for free without asking back. Which is a boon as well as a curse. You must be a very selective and business-minded person and you must know which is the best time to release the best content and which is not.

13) Your dream life is worth jumping through countless hoops for.               

                                         

Your dream life is worth jumping through countless hoops for

 

Your dream life is worth jumping through countless hoops for because you are experiencing yourself as a badass powerful go-getter living a dream is priceless if there's one thing to know is that patience is the key 

14) Nothing about the blogging world is instantly gratified 

                                          

Nothing about the blogging world is instantly gratified 

 It's all about long term gratification. Ask yourself.... am I willing to invest my own money and work long hours with no pay, sacrifice personal time and lifestyle for maybe years? What's gonna happen to if this venture doesn't work out? So just be patient and stay grounded. Just remember success is inevitable make a plan show up with energy and intensity every single day and good things will happen.

Conclusion

There you have it, those 14 harsh truths you learn in your first year of blogging and this is relevant for bloggers of all niches too. Just take them with a grain of salt and start writing and be courageous to face them and then be ready to shine like a star.