How to Overcome Those Nasty Blogging Challenges

I unplug

and do some old fashioned reading out of (GASP) a book! I go to my motivational library and read a chapter or two. I find that my inspiration soon returns.

I Treat A Blog Like A River, Or Like A Song...

Josh,

I love to write and having been a songwriter before I was a blogger gave me a bit of a creative strategy. I just live life and in the process things happen, if you open up your perceptions.

I've had moments as a songwriter or a poet, being out shopping with my wife who'd make a statement such as "shoes are just like music..." and the muse strikes her lightening and I grab the nearest piece of napkin or shopping bag and start the straight-wire or the creative pipeline.

My hands and mind act as if on their own and in a line of fire, we have a Ouija-board-like phenomena. It's almost mystical, but it's not really. It's just how an in-tune mind works.

What flows is what flows and at the end I have a pretty complete set of lyrics for a song. That is then transferred to a file, then music sort of presents itself as well - y'know "shoes are just like music..." has an intrinsic melody to it, and from that comes a song.

Add some intelligent song structure, a smoking rhythm track and there you go.

I treat blogging the same way. Lets' say, I'm studying Black Belt Recuiting or Traffic Formula 2.0 or listening to a webinar. From it comes ideas, they spark and jump and I jot them down. Some of them are just for application, but some others transform themselves into a blog post.

The "morphing" process begins.

It's a matter of raising and fine tuning your awareness to what's happening in the "zone" us writer or musical types call it. That's your small or large place where those sparks of create happen.

That's how I solve my blogging stuck points.

First, I never worry about it. When I hit so-called "writer's block," I know it's just a "stuck flow" so to speak. All of life is a flow. You outflow when you talk to someone or when you look at something.

You inflow when you listen to someone, when you buy something or look at TV or listen to music. You cross flow when you see others doing something, you flow self to self when you think.

It's all about flows.

Electrons flow on a wire to produce electricity etc. Rain is a flow. A river is a flow. If you understand that all life consists of flows, you can start to channel them and control them.

Secondly, raise my personal awareness of what I feel and what is going on around me. I tap into the feelings of others and then let that feed the magical muse within.

And voila! From that comes some bolt of creativity that most often results in a post. In this way your blogging is natural and interesting to an audience.

Putting real useful workable value in those post then makes for stuff that is easy and fun to read, but also brands you as a person who can help.

There's my little formula.

Al

P.S. And see, this will become a post! This is an illustration of it in action.