I just filmed a video in Thailand.
Sleepy village outside of Chiang Mai.
The topic of the video clues you in as to why I am a kinda prolific blogger.
Over my career I have written well over 10,000 blog posts between guesties and posts on my blog. I have written over 500 guest posts on Blogging Tips alone.
How?
The video explains. Click the link. Listen to it. For its entirety. Seriously, do it:
I bet you 1 in 50 of you watched the 11 minutes of video.
Which is exactly why 1 in 50 or 1 in 100 or even 1 in 1,000 bloggers are truly prolific.
The video is simply the peaceful, serene sounds of the Thai village were I am living for 7 weeks. Exotic bird calls. Lizards calling in the distance. Serenity. Peace.
But you – like the old me – probably weren’t detached and present enough to sit, to relax, and to enjoy the perfection of nature, with its serenading bird calls, and peaceful, calming, healing vibe.
Why?
You are heavily attached to:
- stuff you need to do
- stuff you have to do
- your busy schedule
- people, stuff, whatever
- making money
- making money
- making money
- proving your worth by becoming successful
During the 11 minute video – plus tack on 10 more minutes – I meditated. I watched the idea for this blog post arise and fade away. I watch my email inbox checking impulse arise then fade. Ditto for an idea to publish a newsletter but copy and paste the entire blog post to email since something still blocks ID addresses for some folks and my blog is not rendering properly for some people.
But I observed, felt the feelings associated with the thoughts, and detached. I let go. No attaching to anything during meditation sessions.
This is one of my prolific secrets; detachment.
Detachment
I never wrote 1 of my 500 plus guest posts here with any expectation of what I’d get out of the guest post. I wrote for the fun of writing and helping people. No expectation. No attachment.
Most bloggers heavily attach to outcomes, doing zero meditation, blogging mainly from fear and scarcity. They carefully meter out their energy, holding back their time and talents, writing content once in a blue moon, because they are heavily attached to outcomes, trying to squeeze, manipulate, hack or extract as much:
as possible out of one guest post or post.
Meanwhile, during the week of manipulation madness, where said blogger only published 1 helpful post, I published 14 to 28 helpful guest posts, plus 1 post or more on Blogging From Paradise.
I do not publish a guest post and try to GET anything out of it because I am not attached to any outcome from the guest post. I don’t fear my creations won’t yield anything, or won’t yield enough. I write the next guest post.
Detaching from outcomes – largely – makes you:
- super prolific
- super generous
- super helpful
- super happy
- super fearless in many areas of life
- super willing to do freeing, fun but sometimes highly uncomfortable things
When you worry not about what you’re getting from any blog post or guest post you write the next blog post or guest post. Then another. Then another. This is how to become prolific.
How to Detach Largely from Blogging Outcomes
- meditate daily; start with 5 minutes
- release expectations and trade ’em in for appreciation as Tony Robbins says; instead of trying to squeeze getting through your blogging campaign, feel grateful for the opportunity to serve folks
- stop following any blogger obsessed with money, goals and other outcomes; these folks heavily attach to outcomes from fear energy (they fear they are not enough and keep trying to stack chedda and homes and cars to prove their worth to selves, and to you) and will lead you down this dicey path….trade up for heart-centered bloggers who help you live your dreams through the concepts of generosity and service
I am no Blogging Budda. I am not like the monks I see here in Thailand going on alms at 5 AM every morning, receiving their food for the day. Still living a worldly life here and still kinda attached to things.
But I am kinda detached from blogging outcomes which helps me be prolific.
Follow these tips guys.
Become a prolific blogger.
And if you have’t already, let go the world, the work day, or your endless to do list, and listen to the beauty of bird calls and village life beside a forest in Thailand.
Click the link up top. Watch the video.
Wouldn’t it be fun to wake up to that for 2 months?