Like you, blogging often of frightens me and takes me several times to the point of conversation defective and blocked in the fingers. Tonight, I want to share my story with you; the story of how I've admitted and overcame a fear so strong, that he stopped me blogging for six months…
I am sitting here tonight with the light never dimming of the day flowing on my garden behind me and the company of the slight glow of my desk lamp bronze and the carillon of 30 minutes of the clock cuckoo on my office wall. About ten years ago I started blogging in the same Office. And tonight, I realized something that took me these ten years amazing, fun and delicious to discover.
My readers, I am afraid that your rejection. I am afraid that my ideas are not worthy of your eyes or your opinion. I am afraid that others have written before me I want to write. I am afraid that you already know the lessons that I teach. I am afraid that the conversation my articles cause, should they miraculously no cause will be stagnant, old and devoid of passion. I am afraid that my voice is just one in a million million. a vast ocean of attentive writers; a large mass of brilliance.
I am afraid of rejection, and that is why I was inconsistent in my writing. I missed a clear voice. Sometimes, I am sensitive. Other times I am qualified. I am sometimes controversial. I also missed a clear timetable, often breaks from blogging of the month at a time.
"I have no ideas". I have said. "I don't like where the industry is going." I griped.
But tonight, I realized that I was wrong. I did and have ideas. I have and like where the industry is going. I have the blog and make blog and this is what my fingers have made.
Tonight, I realized that I was not bored. I wasn't lacking inspiration. I was scared. I was afraid of rejection.
I spent the last ten years, writing online. I started with a static Web site, update the HTML code with the new text whenever I posted something new. Then, I created my own blogging software. Then I moved to WordPress, and in amongst all that I've tried Blogger, WordPress has allowed, Journal and TypePad.
Throughout these ten years, I wrote several times about the fear of rejection and the role it plays in the blogs. I read more about it. It is one thing, I knew that others have experienced, but I've never thought. Certainly, after ten years, I wouldn't worry about was not relevant to what I wrote? But I did, and this is why I've stopped blogging.
Throughout the past six months that I have had hundreds of blog post ideas, but they were all thrown in the trash for a reason; I didn't think they were good enough for my audience, my reputation, for the person that I and others had come to expect.
In the ten years I have said my advice is the best blogging advice to have never read. I said that I have motivated people to start blogging or revive their blog with a new life. I even had one of my posts made by a parent blog and read to her children who were so captivated by what she took the time to tell me. It is not surprising that I set my high standards and it is not surprising that I started to fear of rejection.
I have written hundreds of positions over the past ten years, and not one was rejected. The occasional offensive or spirited debate? Some. But nothing of what has already been rejected. Thus, a complete when shock, this evening, I finally realized that a fear of rejection has stopped me do what I like.
It is a complete shock, but this feeling lasted a few seconds short. As soon as I realized that what had been held my creative that Self back for so long I felt able to deal with it. I felt a weight huge paper removed from my fingers. I can deal with it, now that I admitted it. I agree lack of ideas. The industry is not falling flat on his face. Those excuses, an attempt to blame someone or something other than my own apprehension.
If we want to continue to build our reputation as bloggers, we must listen more to the advice very which give us to others. So stop being afraid to publish last blog post. Stop to think, that it is not zero. Stop worrying it get comments and stop throwing your ideas in the trash. The fact is that it is your job as a blogger to any interesting topic, bring your voice to even the most stagnant tables and create the invigorating conversation on blogs were made for. Continue, you can do. This is what you do.
This evening as sit here with the last rays of the gleaming Sun behind me, the heat from light from the lamp of Office on my face, and the occasional "Cuckoo" ring above me, I left my fingers to speak. My fingers gently tap the keyboard that I let my thoughts flow, as I share my lessons, my wisdom or lack of it at times, my insecurities and my history. This is what blogs are subject. It is to share with the world your vocal delights. And forgotten why I love and I could never stay away.
We have all faced rejection, but we have only fall so that we can learn to suffer. I plant the flag of pride in this position, standing up and asking you to share. Leave a comment and I know that I am on the right track.
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