I posted a few images on Instagram right now.
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Sweet snaps from Thailand.
Instantly, a few generic, lifeless, bland, spam comments popped up. Nice post. I love your profile. Keep up the great work.
These people get swept up in the culture of Instagram Impatience. A hefty majority of Instagrammers want something for nothing. Spam commentors want me and my followers to click on their profile link to Like their updates and to buy their stuff. Being too impatient to:
- address me by name
- make a specific comment clearly related to the photo
I ignore their spam. Wasted time. Wasted energy.
Some of these fools take it even further into blogging delusion, believing their Instagram profile is an actual blog. You do not own Instagram. You sit on rented real estate. You can be evicted at any time for any reason. Plus you have nil branding potential on Instagram. But I digress.
If you allow Insta-Impatience to bleed into your blogging campaign you will:
- want something for nothing
- spam fellow bloggers with generic comments
- destroy your reputation
- struggle
- fail
Good things take time. Impatience breeds failed ventures.
Monks, Fish and Thailand
I observe Buddhist monks walk on alms every morning here in Pong Noi, Thailand. We live by a temple.
Monks are poised, patient, calm individuals who built up these qualities through meditation and by renouncing a worldly life. If you give everything up you cultivate detachment. If you are detached, patience is your natural state.
Inst-Impatience is the polar opposite of a Buddhist monk vibe. You want 5, 10 or 100 Likes in a split second. You want sales in a split second. You fear waiting. You fear working. You fear wasting time creating and connecting. Apply this vibe to your blog and you will fail because you skip the stuff you need to do to succeed.
I recall the Japanese Wisdom spouted concerning cooking a fish; overcook fish and it becomes shoe leather, under cook fish and it remains raw. At best, under cooked fish tastes terrible (unless it is sushi). At worst, you become horribly ill consuming under cooked fish.
Inst-Impatience creates a raw, unfinished, unpolished blog. Best scenario; people take a bite, hate the taste and leave. Worst scenario; people trash your blog and brand, you lose your reputation and your blogging business fails.
Solution
Be generous, patient and persistent. I spend little time on IG to avoid the culture of mass impatience over there. People expect to make a fortune with 3 lines of copy and 20 hashtags.
Good things take time, energy and generous effort.
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I have helped people on the Warrior Forum since 2010.
I have written 5,361 posts.
There are no shortcuts to successful blogging.
Patience, Grasshopper, patience.
Follow the lead of Jane Sheeba and Sue-Ann Bubacz. Both bloggers patiently, generously and persistently create value and build bonds. Both bloggers know success is a marathon, not a sprint.
Do not panic. Do not lose patience.
Blogging Becomes Easier with Your Generosity and Patience
I would only write one post weekly a decade ago. I was not generous. I was stingy. I struggled because blogging simply mirrored back my stinginess to me.
At 10:25 AM Thailand time on a Sunday morning I have:
- published 2 posts on Blogging From Paradise
- published this guest post
- broadcast live on Facebook
- mentioned 2 of my blogging buddies above
- commented genuinely on blogs
Each bullet point is generosity. The more patiently I have displayed such generosity the more easily worldly blogging success finds me.
Give freely.
Be patient.
Receive generously.
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