3 Blogging Lies You Tell Yourself (that you need to unbelieve, stat!)

Last updated on 30 June 2025

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You ever have one of those thoughts creep in that just won’t leave? The kind that settles in like an uninvited spider in the corner of your brain?  (She ain’t paying rent, either, slacker.)  Yeah. Those pesky mindset blogging lies.

They sneak in quietly and suddenly they’re running the whole show, telling you your blog isn’t good enough, no one’s going to read it, or that you’re “not really a writer” (ugh, that one always stings).

But here’s the truth: those lies are not facts. They’re just stories you’ve accidentally started to believe. And it’s time to change the script.

So let’s talk about some of the most common blogging lies we tell ourselves when it comes to blogging and content creation, because once you can spot them? You can start kicking them out.

Here are some common lies that we believe when it comes to our content:

“No one will read it.”

Okay, how could you possibly know that!?

There are nearly 8 BILLION people on this planet, with over 3 billion of them having access to the internet. The chances that not even one single person is going to read your blog post?

Slim. Very slim.

Even if that person is your supportive Grandmother, you’ve just made her day. And she is proud of you.

You can’t believe the lie that ‘no one will read it’ when you literally (using that word literally) don’t know that.

“Someone else has already written this and it’s way better”

Oh for SURE, someone has already written the same thing. I did a quick Google search for ‘blogging coach’ and there are so many incredible blogging coaches out there.

So yes, someone has already created the content I’m creating in some way. The city guide to London post that I wrote has already been written thousands of times. The book review of The Hobbit? Done. Probably hundreds of thousands of times.

And yet here I am, still creating for my blog. Still writing book reviews and sharing travel posts.

Why?

Because all those posts out there in the world that are similar to mine, they’re all missing one thing: Me.

That’s what makes it different. That’s what makes it good.

Notice I didn’t say ‘better’. I said good. ‘Better’ is a subjective term, meaning that it changes depending on who is looking at it or experiencing it. What might be ‘better’ between Option A and Option B for Mary, might actually be the last thing that Sally wants to read.

Their content (usually) isn’t better than yours, it’s just different.

If I had looked at all those other blogging coaches out there and thought, ‘well, it’s been done. No one needs yet another version of this or someone else giving suggestions and recommendations’, then you wouldn’t be here today, reading my blog.

There’s a reason that people are reading YOUR blog posts and YOUR online content.

It’s because they connect with YOU, they like YOU, they enjoy what YOU’RE inspiring them to be or do, and they’re learning from YOU. And if you can inspire, encourage or educate just one person … isn’t that worth it?

“I’m really not a writer”

Spoiler alert, Stephen King wasn’t a writer once upon a time. Neither was JRR Tolkien or Malorie Blackman or Margaret Atwood.

They started. They failed. They tried again. They learnt, they grew, they polished their skills.

And you can too.

Here’s the thing: your blog doesn’t need to be perfect, groundbreaking, or better than anything else on the internet. It just needs to be yours.

That’s the heart of a strong blogging mindset: knowing that your words, your voice, and your experiences and your story are enough. That you don’t have to wait until you feel “qualified” or “ready” or “better” to hit publish.

The lies will still try to sneak in now and then. That’s okay. You just don’t have to believe them.

Because you are a writer. Your content does matter. And someone out there? They’re waiting to read exactly what you have to say.

Keep going, friend. You’re doing better than you think.