Kylie Saunder

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How to get your blogging mojo back

It’s a common sticking point that isn’t spoken about openly.

And it can be hard to get over.

Life as a blogger has its ups and downs but when your creativity feels like it’s dried up for good, what do you do?

The first thing to remember is that you’re not alone!

Creating original content on a regular basis is fun when your ideas are flowing freely.

It’s not so fun when your brain freezes up and your fingers refuse to move over the keyboard.

Instead of trying to force creativity and blogging genius out – stop!

Step away from your keyboard and forget about it.

Staring at your blank screen and being distracted by what “everyone else is doing” is only going to make you feel more uptight.

Creativity doesn’t thrive in a state of contraction, it needs space to grow and breathe.

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Change your environment:

  • Visit your favourite cafe,
  • Go to the local beach,
  • Take the dog for a walk, or
  • Pour yourself a cool drink and sit on the deck.

And as you’re having a cool drink or a hot espresso, allow your brain some space to expand.

When you feel like you’ve “hit rock bottom” it’s really hard not to panic.

That really loud voice in your head telling you that you’re “never going to be able to write anything good…ever…ever again” is real.

But is it realistic?

When these moments arrive to bother me, I use something I learned from “Seinfeld”!

In “The Opposite” episode, George Costanza decides to do the opposite of what his instincts are telling him to do. If you’re not familiar with this episode, check out this 3-minute YouTube clip. 

“I should sit here until it’s done, until my ideas are out on the page and then I can go for a walk…I should be able to do this, after all how many blog posts have I written…”

I replace all these “freaked out” thoughts which want me to do something that will make me even more uptight and freaked out with “The Opposite”:

“I need to get this done now

THE OPPOSITE

I will go to the shops, run the errands, have a coffee then get it done”

“I am stuck and just need to push on through this

THE OPPOSITE

I need to give myself some breathing space, to release the anxious brake that’s holding me back by practicing yoga for 30 minutes.”

I have 3 other things to do before I can call it a day, if I don’t get this done now I will have to work late into the night

THE OPPOSITE 

I have other work I can do now that doesn’t require as much “creative juice”

How do you get your creativity flowing again?

Let me know below…

 

 

 

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How To Repurpose Your Content

Repurpose Your Content In 5-Steps

It would be lovely to be able to conjure up ‘quality content’ every day – but life gets in the way.

Client work, business meetings and family demands can make it hard to produce fabulous content regularly.

So what to do?

You may have heard blogging experts and content creators urging you to ‘repurpose your content’.

It sounds like a fantastic thing to do, especially when your inspiration is low – but how?

Over the last 5 years or while I’ve been writing content for myself and my clients, I’ve often repurposed content – here’s my tips…

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Content Creation Tips 1

Feeling stuck when you’re trying to create content?

It’s not a pleasant feeling!

And no matter how long you sit at your desk, desperately trying to get the words on the page, it doesn’t happen.

You’ve got your “to-do” and “must-do” list close by.

The “create 3 blog posts and promote them” have been on them for over 2 weeks.

But how many have you written?

None!

It’s a terrible feeling when you need to create content but nothing is happening.

You’re not procrastinating by cleaning the house or checking social media updates.

You’re at your screen or sitting with your journal, pen at the ready – but nothing comes…

So you you sit there in a quagmire of emotions that fluctuate from desperation to anxiety to wondering if you can actually even write.

Here’s what I do when I feel like I’m stuck in mud – like everyone else is blitzing the content creation world but me.

I stop trying so hard.

I stop searching so hard for the perfect headline, the perfect subject, the perfect “thing” that will make me stand out from the crowd. I stop.

And with this pause I allow myself to feel the frustration, anger and “everyone else is better at content creation than I am” fully.

If this sounds like a totally weird thing to do, consider this.

We avoid taking a break, a full stop,  a pause to feel the anger and frustration because we fear that if we stop, we will never get started again!

But here’s what I’ve discovered…

In that moment of actually feeling the white hot frustration coursing from your heart into your body, a wave of relief arrives.

A relief that you’re not actually stuck – that you just need to lighten up and to stop trying so hard…all the time.

With this relief comes a deeper understanding, that all the time spent trying and pushing has made you exhausted.

So why not take a day off from the pushing and fretting?

Give yourself time and space to nap on the couch, to visit a cafe, to take your dog to their favourite beach.

And as the space widens, you can soften and relax.

You intuition and creativity have room to breathe, to pour forth their wisdom and ideas.

So stop trying so hard.

Allow yourself to stop and let the massive cloud of fear and doubt dissipate.

Give yourself permission to open up to the possibility that relentless pushing and striving doesn’t always get you to the end goal.

And in the space of stopping, invite clarity and a sweet sense of relief in – it’s time to be kind to yourself, so just stop.