Number 1 enemy… yourself

Bloggers  often face many enemies throughout their whole blogging careers. We may often work overtime to deliver on content that still may not live up to the expectations of readers or may be short-lived because another blogger writes a much better post. We are always going to meet setbacks that will slow our improving down by days and people whom we learn to hate because they do a better job, even though its a topic their not interested in. This enemy that we can create with the people around as is a major flaw that will only make things worse for us as writers. Our biggest enemy is not others but rather ourselves.

You will hate what you do:

No matter how hard you work or try, you will always hate what you do, something will always get in the way and you will hate it to the point of madness yet spend no time or to much time trying to fix it, and still end up nowhere. Even if you do something positive which your readers like, you will still look to all the flaws and hate what you have done.

You will unnecessarily compete with others:

Quickly, through blogging you will notice that everyone around you may be doing better than what you are doing. These people will quickly become your enemies when they are just your fellow bloggers. If you compete and always try to be better than them then you will get nowhere. You should be focusing your energy on working with those people to learn and improve from them rather than fight them.

You will never stick with what you have:

Everything that we work on we will quickly forget and move on. We will spend days even months working on something like a blog template and then spend only a few seconds thinking all the work was rubbish, hitting the delete button and calling it quits even though if you ask anyone else, what you have done is impressive.

You will never recognize the achievements you have made:

Everything and every small milestone is worth considering as it is the small things that keep us going as bloggers. Getting another hundred feed burner subscribers may seem like a small achievement but it is this that will keep us powering on. Still we don’t take advantage of this and we fail to recognize the achievements we have made and this brings us down as we do not think we have done anything successful, ever.

You will allow blogging to get in the way of your life:

Blogging has a strange hypnotizing effect where we think that what we are doing will benefit our lives, obviously this doesn’t happen, and so, we end up spending all our time doing something that we know will do nothing or be of very little advantage to us in the long run. We are our own worst enemies, we let blogging get in the way of what’s important in our lives.

Conclusion:

In every aspect, others are not our enemies it’s only ourselves. We make those people our enemies even though they have done absolutely nothing wrong. We need to step outside the square, read over what I have written and try to think how you can avoid all these things. You will be a better person on the whole if you do so. Your blog will also follow suit and so will the people around you. So stop being your own worst enemy and start building upon what you know. Your the only one your letting down if your the enemy of yourself.

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