Every time I turn the corner, I’m reminded how much I don’t know. I just read a report about book marketing and it made me feel like crying, truthfully. How could it be that after all the sweat and tears of writing the book, that I could be facing the daunting task of marketing the book as a neophyte, as green and as new to it as if I just had started writing yesterday? It blows my mind, actually…Clearly it is time to roll up my sleeves and get very busy learning!
To those of you that are returning to this blog and have joined me before, thank you. Apparently you are my saving grace which I had always instinctively known, but just didn’t fully appreciate as fully until this very moment. In reality, I could have been blogging all throughout my experiences with Inspire, the business creation, the business failure, the business restructure, the bankruptcy…I think I was so busy surviving that it never crossed my mind actually. Well, as of today, expect a lot more – and hold me accountable and capable to it! I am going to make a pointed effort to create a blog journey here that is about my learning curve marketing this book, I can tell you that. As well as engage you (if you choose to respond to the mission of posting a response, thank you very much) in a discussion about the rebounding experience and what that means for us collectively.
I have done a couple radio interview recently (I will post links to them forthright!) and each time I talk about this book, I get more excited. I love hearing what others have to say about this topic because it is so relatable. And there are so many aspects of rebounding from setbacks in our lives, no matter how big or small, that we have in common…
The emotional rollercoaster ride of it all…the inevitable coming back to feelings and thoughts around “why didn’t I just…?” – I just can’t get over myself how hard it can be to shake that tendency! I can teach other people about how to grapple with it and how to gain new perspective on it, putting it in some new cognitive framework, and yet it is so hard for me some days! Staying diligent about taking care of myself is part of the key, I know. As soon as I stop exercising, start eating stuff I shouldn’t be, or stop getting the rest I need, the negativity has a tendency to creep in more often and with stronger reminders of self-doubt, “should’ve, would-ve” thinking. Persistently, every time I stray I come back, rebounding over and over again actually, so that in the grand scheme of things I am making small, steady step of progress each and every day, although difficult at times to see the forest for the trees.
My call to action for you today is to stage your own mini-rebound inside your bigger picture. Have you been observing yourself, learning new things about how you are responding to stresses? Have you been remaining open and staying diligent with your self-care? Have you gotten “off track” and need a moment to regain your centering point? Take the time and create the space for continual learning, continual rebounding, and take some centering action TODAY. Now is all you have, really, so take the leap and get going! Know that I am joining you – today actually allowing myself the realization of all that I don’t know, learning and learning so more, recentering myself by doing a cleanse/detox day today in my Isagenix system, and creating a cleaner, fresher slate to rebound on tomorrow.
