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Authors, A Faster Route to All Good Things: Slowing It Down
13 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business
The thirteenth in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
— Lily Tomlin
“Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.”
— Patty Digh
Is it possible that at some point during Lesson 12 (Self-Care) you were thinking I don’t have enough time for this lesson, much less all of this self-care!?
Do you also recall this item from the self-care inventory: Time and space for breathing, thinking, properly deciding, noticing your feelings?
Slowing down is today’s very cool, deceptively simple, super-powerful coaching tool. And it can take your author business far.
Reducing the pace of everything and building cushions of time into your author life bring the counterintuitive byproduct of getting more done, with less effort, in less time. You not only get more things done by decelerating, you get more of the most important things done. You make better decisions and choose more in alignment…
