Prepare For The Rain

For those of you who have been struggling to make money online, feeling like your blog couldn’t attract attention if it had a flare attached to it, then this post if for you.

I just finished watching a very inspiring movie called Facing the Giants. It came out a couple of years ago. Briefly, it’s about a high school football team that’s in a 6-year losing streak. The coach is having family issues, financial issues, and some parents want to replace him. It can be a bit cheesy at times. There are no big name actors in it, but it’s BIG on message.

Inspiration 1: You keep going

There was one scene where the coach was trying to turn this one boy’s attitude around during practice. The boy had to do a death crawl, which is when you walk like a bear with someone else on your back. This isn’t like riding a horse, no, this is when they are lying on their back on top of your’s with their feet in the air, so all their weight is on you.

The boy agreed to do this for 30 yards. But the coach blindfolded him so he couldn’t decide to give up when he thought he had gone far enough. The scene grew intense. The boy was yelling, “I can’t, I’m too tired. How much farther?” The coach was yelling back at him, “You give me your best! I know you’re tired, but you negotiate with your body to give me your all!”

The rest of the team was awestruck because at the end of the scene, the boy realized he had gone the entire length of the field!

Inspiration 2: Prepare for the rain

Another scene was between the coach and this other man. This other man explained to the coach that he heard a story about two farmers who were both in desperate need of rain. Both of them prayed for rain, but only one of them prepared their fields for it.

Who got the rain? The farmer who prepared for it.

How does this relate to blogging?

We can get overwhelmed with the effort required to make a successful blog. “Am I using a good template?” “Am I choosing the right keywords?” “Will people visit and click on my ads?” “My gosh, how many posts do I have to write before someone comments?” It takes a lot to get noticed.

Just like the farmer who prepared for rain, we, too, must prepare our blogs for the time when visitors come by to pay us a visit. Just like the boy who thought he could only do 30 yards, but ended up traversing the entire football field because his coach gave him no reason to think otherwise, we, too, must push ourselves and be a supporter to others to go just a little farther.

Before we know it, we’ll stop and look back and be surprised just how far we’ve come, which makes looking forward a little bit easier.

Naturally, this can and should be applied to our offline lives as well. So go out and make it a great week!