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Welcome back to the Growing Tree of Life, our weekly exploration of personal growth and well-being.
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Issue Number: #088
Date: 01 October 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes
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I didn't publish. Yet. #088
It's 1st of October, nearly half past 1 pm.
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Yesterday I was supposed to publish my book. I didn't. Yet.
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I tried hard, and I came very close to it.
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I spent hours and hours, writing, editing, and formatting.
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I had one meal a day to save some time. (I am used to intermittent fasting when I eat only in a six-hour window, so this wasn't a big deal at all.)
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When the deadline came yesterday, I felt, "I am so " close."
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I even postponed writing and sending this newsletter because I felt that I would finish the editing and publish the book before 6 am today (the time I usually send the newsletter out).
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But now seeing the time, and because I have scheduled work this afternoon, I decided to
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- take a break from editing and formatting
- write and send this newsletter
- take shower
- get something to eat
- contact friends and family
- do the scheduled work and
- continue on the book later tonight
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So, I didn't publish. Yet.
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But despite all that? I don't feel like a failure.
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The deadline I went for was crazy.
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Writing a book in a month is possible. Especially, if you have so much material pre-prepared as I had. There is even an organised event when thousands of authors write a whole novel in a month.
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That is just a manuscript, without the editing, formatting, and all the other steps involved in publishing a book—many of which I had no idea about.
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So when I set the deadline, I knew that it was crazy, but I did it anyway.
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I figured that it would push me to the brink.
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I am closer to publishing than I could ever have hoped if I hadn't set this deadline.
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Now I am doing a real assessment, based on what I already know and I believe that I will press the publish button either on Thursday or Friday.
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There is only one thing that would postpone that.
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I have to contact the ISBN issuer and request a change of the Publishing date from September 2024 to October 2024. So, I will have to wait for their response.
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In the meantime, I am going to finish the edits and—the most challenging thing!—formatting.
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But once that all is done, immediatelly after I will hit publish, I will send you an email, whatever day it might be.
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Oh, and I feel like I did achieve a big thing.
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Without that deadline, the book might have been sitting and gathering dust for the next few years.
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Now it will be published in the next few days.
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Tip for today:
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Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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That’s all for today. Thank you for reading, and see you when I publish or next Tuesday, whatever will come first.
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I will send you a link to preorder my upcoming book Live the Life You Love: 7 Steps to a Meaningful and Abundant Life together with a link to download a free PDF copy of the book on the day it will be published.
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