Authors, Gaining Deeper Access by Doing More of It: The Power of Love
26 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business
The twenty-sixth in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
— Iris Murdoch
I love this quote in its presumption of love as an action, not a feeling — its assumption that we can expand love and our understanding of it by doing more of it.
Murdoch’s sentiment also highlights the transformative power of taking action (big idea #20), of learning and gaining deeper access to something by practicing it. We learn to love by loving. We learn to make better choices by making better choices. We learn to coach ourselves by coaching ourselves. We learn to run our author businesses by running our author businesses.
Whom and what do you love in your authr life? Picture yourself loving those people and things more, relishing and nurturing that love, enjoying it more, appreciating it more. How does that love and these relationships and these elements of your business evolve for you? Do they increase in their complexity? Simplicity? Profundity? Fullness? Vibrancy? Does your love…
