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Authors, Acknowledge Your Shift and Let It In: Admitting the Arrival
8 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business
The eighth in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.
“Eureka! — I have found it!”
— Archimedes
This concept is short and sweet and just as important. Whereas the shifting we talked about in the previous lesson was about the movement to somewhere different, admitting the arrival is about acknowledging and letting in that insight. It’s knowing that you have reached a new place and pausing to value that fact — looking around, drinking it in, letting it wash over you, making it your own.
Consider a sightseeing trip of running around from place to place focused on ticking off as many landmarks as possible more than appreciating and fully experiencing each one. This is not that. When serving as your own author coach, make sure that when you show up in a new place (mindset, awareness, discovery, fork in the road) you allow time to welcome that and take it in. You have arrived.
What happens once you’ve shifted, arrived, and slowed down — it may only take seconds, enough to not gloss over it — to realize and…
