Christian Woman Blogger – Do You Feel Like a Little Fish In a Big Pond?
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Starting a journey as a Christian woman blogger can be so exciting! You feel called to this writing ministry and have such wonderful ideas! You get your blog up and going and can’t wait to start promoting it! Your excitement is through the roof!! Then you get on social media and Google and Pinterest and immediately begin to feel like…
Little Fish in a Big Pond
As a new blogger, you are surrounded by other bloggers who have it all together! They have established relationships, promote each other’s posts and maybe even write for each other’s blogs! Maybe they help promote each other’s products!
These bloggers may seem to have this invisible circle that you can’t ever see yourself breaking into. You feel a bit like you did in high school; a wallflower looking at all the popular kids who surely won’t want to waste their time on a newbie.
The Comparison Trap
It is easy to fall into the comparison trap. You look at their numbers, how many followers, how many repins, how many monthly viewers on Pinterest and your heart sinks a little.
You feel unnoticed. Maybe you feel unwanted at times. Possibly you feel you try to get into the circle but it seems like you just can’t. You can feel like an outsider.
I know that feeling! As a fairly new Christian woman blogger myself, I know how it feels to look at the numbers of other bloggers and think you will never get to where they are. You think they somehow possess some special gift that you just don’t have.
And I felt that way when I was just 2 months into blogging! Seriously, I expected the same results in just two months!! Sounds crazy right?
Christian Woman Blogger – Blogging Experience
What new Christian woman bloggers can easily overlook is how long these other bloggers have been established. It is not that they have a special gift that you don’t; they will be the first ones to tell you that! What they DO have are longevity and experience!
It’s easy to see all the followers and re-tweets and re-pins they get, but what you don’t see, what the enemy doesn’t want you to see, are all the days, weeks and months they spent feeling just like you do. You don’t see all the tears they cried because they wrote the most AWESOME blog post ever, just to have 5 people visit it.
We don’t see the fights with spouses over hours spent staring at a laptop trying to craft the perfect pin! We don’t see the sleepless nights or the hours (and dollars) spent doing every training known to man!
It's easy to see all the followers and re-tweets and re-pins they get, but what you don't see, what the enemy doesn't want you to see, are all the days, weeks and months they spent feeling just like you do. Click To TweetChristian Woman Blogger: It’s Your Journey
It is easy to compare yourself to others but the reality is that their journey is not your journey. Remember, your journey in blogging, or any ministry for that matter, is what God has designed just for you! It is not going to look like anyone else’s!
Your journey in blogging is going to be unique to your strengths and your experiences in life and in your walk!
And your journey is going to progress at a pace unique to you as well.
Your goals are not the same as another blogger’s goals. So you will not walk the same walk!
Your journey in blogging is going to be unique to your strengths and your experiences in life and in your walk! Click To TweetThe enemy wants you to play the comparison game. He wants you to look at those numbers and get discouraged and give up! The enemy wants you to believe that somehow these other bloggers just “have it” and you don’t. He wants you to think they just woke up one day, rolled out of bed and started this amazingly successful blog!
That is a lie! He will never show you everything that went into that success.
Rather than allowing him to discourage you, go to your fellow bloggers for encouragement. They will be willing to share with you all they have experienced in their blogging journey!
Christian Woman Blogger Community
What I DO know about the Christian blogging community is that it is a giving one. When you reach out for help, people WILL respond. If you ask for shares, you WILL get them (be sure to reciprocate when you do). And if you ask for advice, you will get it and you will get pointed toward training that might help you!
If you want the success they have, you have to be willing to put in the time as they did.
You have to be willing to do training as they did. If you ask for help and you are pointed toward books or training, be willing to read or do some of them! You don’t have to spend a lot of money on them. In fact, there are some great free ones that I will list below.
Success at blogging is not going to come by osmosis! It is work!!
Not Seeing Results
But what if you have done the work, done the training, and you still aren’t seeing the results you want?
Take comfort in the fact that it just takes time! It won’t happen tomorrow. You should start to see some improvement and as long as you are heading in the right direction, even if slowly, that is progress! But there is nothing wrong with your blog! It just takes time to get it out there in front of people.
Look at it like a marathon, not a sprint. It is better to build something on a solid foundation that will last rather than a flash that will quickly die out because you cannot maintain that pace.
Build on a Solid Foundation
A solid foundation will see you through slow times, tough times! The Word makes it clear that a solid foundation is always the best way!
Matthew 7:24-27 says:
Now, He wasn’t speaking of a blog of course but it is still good advice that applies to anything in life.
A solid foundation for your blog will see you through storms far better than a blog built hastily on the sand!
Seek God! Pray about what direction He has for your ministry and focus your eyes on Him, not other bloggers!
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I love your words of encouragement. I am mostly a garden blogger but I am a Christian and wanted to write more about it on my blog because the garden is truly where I feel more connected to God. So I am starting by just sharing my experiences, and God has worked in my life. I have found interestingly that many other Christian bloggers have found my blog through the gardening link-ups, which is pretty funny. Still, eventually I think I would like to have a few days a week dedicated to my Christian experience. By the way, thank you for the resources. 🙂
Thank you so much for stopping by and I am so glad you found it encouraging!!
“Your journey in blogging is going to be unique to your strengths and your experiences in life and in your walk!” This is so true. Every blog I read (and I read a lot!) is as different as the person behind it. I’m glad!
I am glad too Lisa!! How boring blogging would be if we all tried to be like everyone else!!
Diane, this post was exactly what I needed. I have been so guilty of looking at other bloggers stats and numbers, only to complain and whine to God about mine. Recently though, He convicted me of this, and revealed to me how prideful I had become over this ministry. It had become all about what I could do, who I could reach, how many likes I could get, and so on. I had completely left God out of it. I now pray more of Him and less of me in everything. I want His glory to shine not mine! Thank you so much for the encouragement and advice.
I am so glad it encouraged you and yes..I know exactly what you mean. We can become prideful and think it is about us but we have to let God lead!
So much beautiful encouragement here. I especially appreciate the links you’ve offered that have helped you, Diane. Because it’s definitely a journey, not a simple sprint. Thanks so much. I’ll be pinning this sweet puppy.
Thank you so much!! I so appreciate you!!
Thanks for the encouragement! I am fairly new too and I agree that just having a few blogging friends that get you and may be just a little ahead of you has helped because most understand and want to be encouraging! Thanks for reminding us not to look at numbers but look to Him!
Thank you Jennifer! I’m glad it encouraged you!!
Thanks for this! I’m not a new blogger Diane, but I still experience some of these very thoughts. Especially the comparison trap (but that happens with everything in life) and feeling like I’m not seeing results. I get impatient when things take a long time to blossom and I’m definitely someone who prefers instant results. I would almost prefer to be the hare (in the Tortoise and the Hare fable), who speeds through everything rather than doing everything slow and steady like the Tortoise. As long as I don’t lay down at the finish line before the end, which I also have a tendency to do, because of fear of failure. But that’s another blog of yours that I need to check out.
I’m the same way! I tend to want things to happen yesterday! God is certainly teaching me patience through blogging!
It’s like you were reading my mind! Thanks for the encouragement & the links for the training you’ve found helpful. I’m going to check them out. 🙂
I’m so glad!! They’re really very helpful!!
Thank you for your informative post and your positive note with it. Love!
Thank you Deborah!!
I love this community! I have a dear friend who is a fantastic writer preparing to launch her blog next year. I’ve sent her this! Thank you for all you do to bless the Christian blogging community.
Thank you so much Christine!! I so appreciate that!!
Thanks for this encouraging post! Blogging can be a lonely ministry at times. It can also be intimidating, especially if we play the comparison game. So grateful for those like yourself who cheer and encourage us forward!
Thank you so much! I love encouraging other bloggers!!