9 years ago I made a super scary decision.
3 years ago I made an equally terrifying decision.
I filmed a short, quick video today in NYC explaining the gist of these decisions and how I became the blogger I am today.
Watch this quick video:
I had to let go the good to make room for the great. In both instances.
9 years ago I had to let go the good, comfortable life I had set up for myself.
The Universe forced my hand. Because I was fired from my good job as a pier guard. The job was good because on Thursdays I received a pay check. Meaning I could cover rent, pay various bills and put food on my table. All pretty good in my eBook.
But I had to let go this good life – and any urge to get part time pier guard work after I was fired – to make room for the great life I would eventually establish for myself. This great life involved retiring to a life of island hopping through smart blogging, being a best-selling Amazon author, being featured on world famous blogs and becoming a full time, professional blogger.
Of course I had no clue in Hades any of this would happen. But I was sick and tired of the good, average, boring, comfortable life for me. I wanted the great life. I wanted freedom. So I plunked down money for a domain and hosting to start my journey from good and OK, to great, free and inspired.
3 Years Ago
I was at another blogging crossroads. Again, the Universe forced my hand.
My blogging host took my old, since deceased blog offline because I had broken TOS for over 1000 of my blog posts. Either I would delete the 1000 posts to get my blog online again or I trash the blog all together. I was terrified. Things had been good with my blog. I was kinda happy. Bills paid. Making some dough.
But something deeper in me urged me to let go the good blogging life to make room for the great blogging life.
I let go the old blog, my old brand and cash flow streams to make room for my current blog, Blogging From Paradise.
This was fun, freeing and terrifying. All emotions rolled into one. I had to let go what I had known to make room for the success I was to experience with BFP. I had to let go the good to make room for the great.
This is the norm for any established, professional blogger. A few juggernauts may rise to fame pretty quickly but almost all folks I have followed online became successful only after being faced with some pressing, scary decision to let go the comfortable, average and good to make room for the uncomfortable, inspired and great.
How do you let go the good to make room for the great?
2 ways:
- become disgusted enough with good, mediocre, outgrown conditions that you decide to make a change, to be happy, to have fun and to be free
- let your life of freedom and fun overcome your fear of letting go the bound, comfortable but unhappy decisions you are living in
I find myself continually letting go the good to make room for the blogging great. On am almost daily basis.
Publishing guest posts, my blog posts a few times weekly, releasing eBooks and audio books and courses, not challenging myself but allowing myself to be pulled by freedom instead of being pushed by fear, which is the difference between going for the great versus being bullied into have a good, but unfulfilling, life.
Your Turn
How are you letting go the blogging good to make room for the blogging great?