{"id":4432,"date":"2016-06-09T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2016-06-09T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:20:02","slug":"just-keep-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/just-keep-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Just keep swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I may have mentioned before, <a href=\"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/books-are-hard\/\">books are hard<\/a>. They&#8217;re hard because not only are they putting a part of yourself out into the world and saying it is worth something. But it takes a lot of work to make a book. I spent years on what would become this book. Much of it procrastinating. Self-doubting. Worrying. Second-guessing.<\/p>\n<p>I could have done this years ago, but I didn&#8217;t. I wasn&#8217;t ready. I was not ready to make this book a reality. Now I am. So it&#8217;s a book now. It exists in the world. It&#8217;s out in the world and now I need people to find it and care about it enough to want it.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no secret to this. I have some good friend who have tweeted about it. I sent copies to my parents, because it&#8217;s exciting to have made something with my name on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <a href=\"http:\/\/SmartandPowerful.com\">my wife and one of her sisters launched a blog at SmartandPowerful.com<\/a>. Much to my surprise, the domain name was available in 2016. But it&#8217;s shaping up to be a great project about their experiences and what they&#8217;re learned in running their own business, gardening and reinforcing women are not just pretty things. They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/SmartandPowerful.com\">Smart and Powerful!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The talk around my house this week has been about launching things into the world. I got my book done and out there. My wife got their blog up and running. Did I mention she is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfulagingdc.com\/\">self-employed art therapist, specializing in serving Seniors with dementia<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/annie-holscher.pixels.com\/\">accomplished artist<\/a>. Seriously, the woman puts me to shame.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve launched things, we talk about how to get people to notice them. How to get readers and customers and the only secret that keeps coming up is <strong>consistency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be out there. Be out there a lot and be something people can depend on. CJ Chilvers just ran a series of posts about this very topic that Seth Godin, who&#8217;s been blogging daily for years, has talked about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cjchilvers.com\/blog\/seth-godin-explains-why-you-should-blog-daily\">Seth Godin Explains Why You Should Blog Daily \u2014 CJ Chilvers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cjchilvers.com\/blog\/john-saddington-wants-you-to-blog-daily\">More on Blogging Daily \u2014 CJ Chilvers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cjchilvers.com\/blog\/why-you-shouldnt-blog-daily\">Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Blog Daily \u2014 CJ Chilvers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That third one refutes the idea of not writing consistently. It&#8217;s the procrastination and self-doubt talking. Don&#8217;t listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>The real secret isn&#8217;t so secret at all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As James Gowans puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesgowans.com\/consistent\">Have you ever noticed that the secret to all the secrets is that it&#8217;s never the easy path?<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I may have mentioned before, books are hard. They&#8217;re hard because not only are they putting a part of yourself out into the world and saying it is worth something. But it takes a lot of work to make a book. I spent years on what would become this book. Much of it procrastinating. 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