"Tell me about yourself"
Four little words guaranteed to strike terror into most people's hearts, especially if we're standing in front of a roomful of people.
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What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead
"Tell me about yourself"
Four little words guaranteed to strike terror into most people's hearts, especially if we're standing in front of a roomful of people.
Yesterday morning, I rigged my shiny new trapeze – the birthday gift my wonderful husband gave me back at the end of March, 4,380 years ago – and hung upside down from my feet.
Writing is a source of great anxiety to a lot of people – including me, sometimes. Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean I have all my shit together.
I've put off weeding that veg bed for a bunch of reasons, none of them good. And so I've wasted more time worrying about the onions than it took me to just do the bloody weeding.
We all have the same amount of time in the days, weeks, months, years.
So why do some people get tons of writing done, and others struggle to make any progress at all?
Your book is just the beginning...
It's not enough to have a book out there (although that is AWESOME obviously) – it needs to work for you.
What do you want your new world to be like?
Your life? Your business? Your relationships?
Don't let anyone shame you into ridiculous productivity.
Don't be pushed into doing more than you want to.
It's okay not to be okay.
It's incredibly tempting to throw everything you have at your courses and products and articles... but how about, instead, you go deeper and narrower?
I don't know about you, but my days are incredibly full.
Stop. Breathe. Listen.
Then pick a thing and do it.
Michael Stipe was right, eh?
Oof. What a few days, eh?
It's the end of the world as we know it.