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To be a badass, fearlessly authentic online entrepreneur, it takes work.  Hard work. And balls.  It takes balls to be a woman.  It takes balls to be a blogger.   It takes big balls to stand out in a crowded space of the internet.   Dude’s & dudettes, it just takes balls.

 Psssst.  Here’s a set of balls for you.

Being stumped, on the other hand, is not good stuff.   It is the opposite of good.  It’s worse than the opposite of good.

 

It is the O M to the G.  

Bad.

 

To be stumped is to be worn out, burned out, just out.  Out to lunch. OUT.  It kinda sorta makes you want to throw up in your mouth a little.  Or throw something at someone.  Same thing.  But different.

 

I’ve had those-tire-kicking-grrhhh-blahhh pajama days where I’ve been stumped.  I’m fancy pants like that.  If I’m going to have  a bad day, I want to at least look good and lounge in yummers cotton.

 

 

I interrupt this blog post with something very important.  Jammies.

If you are going to lounge in la la land bedhead jammies may be the best supercalifragilisticexpialidocious thing on earth {{ even though the picture in the link makes the model look like a dork }}  I have monkey long arms and legs and they fit me like a charm.

 

Bedheads =  badass lounging AKA blogging.

 

K.  Nuff said, or you will be lounging in jammies all.the.live.long.day.

Lazy bones.

 

What happens when you are …

STUMPED     

Stumped ?!!

 

I was stumped in a treehouse.   Excuse the pun.

 

I was stuck in the mud.  That, my friend, is blogstipation.  Frustration.  Maybe even a bit of constipation.  Yeah, I swear to never say that word again.

 

 

 

Other Bloggers:

Ohhhhhhh, you know the ones.  The bloggers that make it seem like blogging is an actual piece of cake.

Mmm.  Cake.  Did someone mention cake?  I digress.

It’s not a freaking piece of cake, peeps <—- I screamed that, while contemplating tripping someone. 

 

Some bloggers can pop out blog posts all the time and make it seem like it’s no biggie.

 

I'm calling bullshit.  It's a biggie.

 

If I popped out a blog post every day of the week, I’d probably pop out a hernia.

 

It takes a real pro-fesh-shun-al to pull off that sort of blogging and do it well.

 

 

I do know one pro.  ONE.  ONE one One One ONNNNNE.

Oh sure, you can have a crap blog and it’s no biggie.  Then you grow.  The reality is that it takes years to grow an audience.   It is worth it, but you have to put in the time.  For many, it’s a dream to have a large audience reading their blog.

 

We need help to make those kind of dreams happen.  Blogging is a community.  You can’t spell team with an I.  So there.

 

Blogging = hard work.  It's hard to be funny, dammit.  haha.

 

Blogging rocks your socks.  That’s a good thing.  Yeah. 

Have you had this happen?  …. You miraculously muster up brilliant blog posts.  You are on a roll.  You think ‘great idea moonbeam, you are smart.’

You sing koombaya and do trust falls.

Then you fall on your face.

OUCH.

The excitement of blog-ness bliss can short lived.  The internet works like that.  Your blog post can be old news before it is new news.

 

Whaaaaaaaaat?!  Exactly.  It confuses bloggers too.

 

Your eyes dart back and forth.  You start to look at other blogs and get all jelly jealous.  It kinda sorta makes you love and hate human beings all at once.

 

It’s probably just sleep deprivation.  Welcome to my world. It’s kinda nutty in here sometimes.

 

 

 

Can you smell the sweet success of an online entrepreneur?

You want that success.  Oh yes you do.

 

How can you do it? How? How?  How dammit?  How?

 

Learn the path to success with the help of someone else who has walked in your footsteps.  Learn from the best of the best. 

 

 

Smoking hawt blogging tips:

Don’t be like all the rest.  Don’t just pop out a blog post because everyone else is doing it.  Write it because you have epic shit to share.  It’s good to be bad. Write it with a goal in mind.  Write it because it contributes to your blog monetization.  Write it because it makes a difference.  Don’t write about your perfect life.  That’s just annoying annnnnd life isn’t perfect.

 

How did I learn all that ?!!!  First, the hard way.  Then I met Karen.

 

Karen from the Art of Doing Stuff.

 

A couple of years ago, I didn’t know jack squat about blogging.  In between my hot flashes, I couldn’t sleep one night.  Why?  I discovered Karen’s blog and stayed up for hours on end.  I blame her for the not-so-designer bags under my eyes.

 

Reading. Reading. Reading.

 

I read pretty much every single one of her blog posts.  It was like blog crack.   I was a smitten kitten.  It was official.  I was addicted to blog crack.

It was LOVE, in an oh so corn dog blogging way.   I knew I had met my mentor, even if she didn’t know it yet.  I was too frightened to even tell her.

 

Monkey see, monkey do:  

I wanted to create a blog that others would love too.  I cyber stalked Karen until she would kinda-sorta-be-my-friend. I dove deep into her blog, leaving comments in the hopes that she would somehow miraculously notice me.  Creepy, right?  Maybe I should have been handcuffed?!  Straightjacketed?  I dunno.  I just wanted to learn.  Grow my blog.  Mirror what I loved about the blogs around me.

Here’s the thing…

You can learn a whole heck of a lot by observing what you really like about other blogs.

A little here.  A little there.  Then suddenly you have found a place that is all your own.  Your blog.

Look at other blogs and think …

What makes you tick?

What makes you want to throw mud?

What makes you jelly jealous?

 

Yup, even that jelly jealous stuff helps you to know what you love and hate.

What gets your mojo running?

What inspires you?

What stumps you?

 

 

Just get out there and do epic shit.

 

P.S.   Looking for me?  You can find me here on instagram, where I’m not-so-secretly stalking a bunch of other people who I wish were my friends.  I need a back up plan for when Karen discovers that I’m a cyber stalker.

I’ll call it my weird-o plan.  Hmmm.

Who’s your blogging mentor?  Who do you learn from?  Do you have a fave blog? Spill it…

 

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