Authors, It’s a Game and the Winning Is Built Into the Design: Play the Part of the Video Game Hero

21 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business

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The twenty-first in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
— Christopher Reeve

“Everyone is the necessarily the hero of their own life story.”
— John Barth

When we’re actively keeping ourselves motivated, trying to maintain sustained energy towards our author goals, there may be nothing more fundamental than knowing how to manage ourselves — our own moods, self-talk, strengths, weaknesses, and energy levels. To face being stuck, unsure, demoralized, and overwhelmed, and come out on the other side. To persist through discouragement, frustration, disappointments, and failures, and build our good, better, best life.

Again and again on our author journeys, obstacles surface, sometimes daily and sometimes at levels we think we can’t possibly bear. And then, too many times, just as we think we’ve figured it all out, conquered our demons for good, and that life…