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Authors, Could It Be That You Are Just in the Middle of It?
10 strategies for staying with a journey that is already underway even when it feels like there is no movement
As a coach for authors building author businesses or working on reaching milestones (finishing a manuscript, finding an agent, finding a publisher, or self-publishing), I encounter the expected smattering of popular issues in my clients: income generation, accountability, juggling multiple priorities and projects, imposter syndrome, work-life balance.
But the number one surprise for people I work with — and it surprises me too how often I notice it and point it out to those I’m coaching — is that the “problem” they’re having is not that they’re stuck, but that they’re simply in the middle of it.
They’re already on the journey they want to be on. They’re in the midst of it and this is what it looks like, feels like, to be in the thing they want to be in. Many don’t realize they have already successfully started something and are well underway.
The insight doesn’t always make things easier, but at a minimum it almost always provides an eye-opening and useful frame of reference. It could mean that they’re closer to their goal than they thought. It might mean they’ve made real progress but…
