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3 Simple Tips to Mix Blogging and Personal Development

September 13, 2012 - Last Modified: March 29, 2014 by Ryan Biddulph 1,804

Are you struggling to make money online with your blog? You are ignoring personal development.

You can work until you collapse. If you ignore personal development – time spent away from the computer working on your mental tools – you will fail. Why? Your outside world is a reflection of your predominant vibration.

This means that how you choose to think and feel most of the time creates your reality.

It makes perfect sense to integrate personal development into your blogging strategy to optimize your results. As within so without. If you can hone your mental tools you attract the physical tools to manifest your dreams.

The blog post containing just the information you needed pops up on your screen, after you visit your new friend’s profile. Or you attract the idea to jazz up your sidebar. All these neat things happen if your inner world is clear….if you spend time engaged in serious, persistent self help.

Personal Development and Blogging

Tip 1 – Take Hourly Breaks

Take 5 minute breaks each hour from your blogging duties. Watch your feelings. Sit in a quiet room and observe. Do you feel desperate or worried? Well… Acting on these feelings will motivate you to spam or scam your way to a few measely bucks… and of course karma will smack you upside the head down the road. At best, you will write crappy blog posts, non-impacting comments and hurry your way through another mediocre day.

If you feel stressed during these breaks slow down your breathing. Calm down. Do not hop online until you feel calm. The quality of your work improves quickly if you maintain a calm, confident, peaceful air about your work. No more mental hurry, no more destructive acts like spamming or scamming. Nope, you will simply create helpful blog posts and network with high energy blogging leaders when calm and confident.

Tip 2 – Visualize Your Goals

I found myself struggling to attract folks to my squeeze page (which I link directly to from my blog).

Then this statement hit me: to be it you have to see it. Meaning to be a person of success you need to see yourself as a person of success, achieving successful results.

So I visualized my desired squeeze page metrics. I opened my backoffice. Check the daily stats. Saw a whopping large number. Then… creative ideas hit me quickly. The little intuitive nudges: promote the twitter content syndication tribe you’re a part of… aggressively! So I hopped on it.

Then I overhauled my squeeze page. And my blog. I simply listened to guidance. Sure enough, my metrics increased quickly. Because I acted in inspiration I received ideas after visualizing. You will likely receive inspirational ideas to make your dreams come true after visualization sessions. Gotta act on them.

Tip 3 – Step Away from the Laptop

You better not go near your laptop until you complete 1 hour of personal development daily. First thing in the morning. You need to get your mental tools right before starting the work day. Trust me, your day will go uber smoothly compared to the panicked, desperate failing masses of bloggers who ignore personal development entirely.

Ideas: Meditate for 20 minutes, speak your gratitude list out loud for 10 minutes, visualize for 20 minutes, affirm for 20 minutes. Just a few tips to get you on track.

Or you can read books like “The Science of Getting Rich” or “Think and Grow Rich” AND practice what they preach. Because reading a self-help book without practicing what it preaches offers you entertainment value only.

Mixing Blogging and Personal Development – Summary

Take frequent breaks to align yourself. Visualize your blogging goals. Spend 1 hour a day on personal development.

How do you mix blogging with personal development?

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Aayna says:

Hi Ryan, A very thoughtful and helpful post!! Integration of personality development with blogging is definitely the key for creating a successful blog. These are excellent tips to make this task a reality. Thanks for the share.
Dean Saliba says:

I think this is very good advice, I have found that since I started taking breaks I have got more work done. I would also suggest regulating how often you check and use Facebook as I used to spend more time on that than working. :)
Santosh Mishra says:

This is useful and good article. Thanks Ryan! Visualising goals and stepping away from the laptop really help me doing best. However, I'm a new blogger.
akhilendra says:

i think the biggest problem is the fact that we tend to rush into it, we want instant success and when we don't get it, we get frustrated and desperate. I guess it happens with most of the new bloggers, your post will definitely help many who are going through this phase. Personal development is the key to anyone; blogging or not blogging, we cannot ignore that. So it's better to have a strategy, take breaks and invest in self.
Anton Koekemoer says:

Hi Ryan,Great post. Personally, if you can grow and develop personally in the same process as professionally (for your business and or brand) is ideal multitasking, And yes, I do agree – If you burn yourself out (even if it is with social media burnout) then the overall quality and quantity of your content will suffer, end even worse, increased lack of quality engagement.
Kona says:

Right now I really am only blogging for fun but I take each day as a challenge to not only improve my content and think of ideas different from what I\'ve had previously but also to expand my reach using different social media sites and networks.I eventually hope to monetize my blogs and hopefully I can get well established now so that I can do well once I reach that stage.
Martin Cooney says:

Never a truer word, Ryan. I personally use mind maps for my own visualization sessions as they help my fragmented thoughts to come together. Ever used them yourself in this way? Though you have pointed out some areas I can now use to better enhance my niche blog so incredible thanks for that, my friend.
Mani Viswanathan says:

Nice post Ryan. It is indeed necessary to take considerable amount of time from work/blogging. At first it seems fun to blog and read articles on the net the whole day, after a while you do get bored of it. At such times, it's best to spend time elsewhere. Entertainment should help mostly.
Paul says:

Blogging takes up a lot energy that we have to invest in brainstorming, developing new and creative concepts. It involves logical and mental work more than physical work. During this, taking breaks and rejuvenating by the means of meditating can a good option for personal development.
John says:

Well my blog is about personal development so i guess there's a natural mix :-) Etre Heureux means being happy in French
Marius says:

Probably it belongs from the people, but for me 5 minute breaks are not enough to get my brain breathing again. I am mostly working 1.5-2 hours and then having a 15 minutes break.
Kunal says:

Hi Ryan, Appreciable post. It will actually help many like me to be free from daily stress we have. You are right we should take break for a short time every 1 hour. I never did it, to be honest. But I will try it henceforth.
Aditya says:

Visualizing the goals can make you one step ahead if you are getting some problems in developing yourself as a full time blogger.Everybody needs some time to work through one his skills in free time.
Eddie Gear says:

Well Ryan, first of all this is a good post and good advice. The thing with me is that I have a ful time job, So I work an average of about 6 hours on my blog other than my 8 hour regular day job. Breaks for regular after posts, or particular activity.

3 Simple Tips to Mix Blogging and Personal Development