Authors, You’re Enough and Now Is Perfect: Right, Right Now

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

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

“My problem was not, not being good enough, my problem was thinking I had to be.”

— Unknown

“The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Some coaching tools are more obviously variations on themes and extensions of other ones. Consider responsibility (big idea 3) and accountability (big idea 9); being not doing (big idea 14) and being with oneself and not one’s problems (big idea 10).

Some tools are seemingly contradictory. Take for example big idea #16, idealizing, and this one: right, right now. Where idealizing is future-oriented, making yourself right, right now is present-oriented. It means there is “perfection” in your life right now, right where you’re at. You are enough and have enough — as is.

Hold on, you say, perhaps thinking some version of: I don’t have enough money, I’m way too cranky, my latest work in progress in crap, my Amazon…