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Persistence Pays Off · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider starter kit, visit DailyRiderLife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the most inspiring stories from the world of music comes from the rock band The Foo Fighters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dave Grohl was the drummer for the mega successful band Nirvana back in the 90s.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was already an established musician in his own right.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when the lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Komain, committed suicide in 1994, nobody expected Dave Grohl to form his own band and take on the role of a songwriter and a lead singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now by that point, Dave had been writing and recording songs for a long time, so the very next year, in 1995, he released the first Foo Fighters album.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not only did he write the songs, he also played all the instruments himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, a few years later, by 1999, the Foo Fighters consisted of a full band and had released two more albums, and in the following years they continued to grow in popularity despite changing styles and pop radio.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the Foo Fighters are one of the most recognizable and popular rock bands in the whole world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a simple lesson here, and that is persistence pays off.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: For Dave Grohl, success did not come easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even though he had already been in a successful band, there were no guarantees.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had to prove himself all over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet he persisted.
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  SPEAKER_00: He kept doing what he loved and he assumed that his hard work would eventually pay off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thomas Edison once said, Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success.
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  SPEAKER_00: Success may be far off or it might be just around the corner, but one thing is for sure, it's never going to happen if you quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the thing that makes you successful is your persistence and you carry that around with you wherever you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't give up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep on plugging away at those writing projects that are so important to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: One day you're going to look back and say, I never knew I was so close to success.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you tempted to quit right now and what would it look like for you to keep on going for just one more month on that project?
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  SPEAKER_00: As we talk about persistence, one of the best ways to keep on going as a writer and to continue building your author career is to take your book and create a course from it.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm excited to share this new book, Monetize Your Book with a Course, your guide to quickly creating a profitable and impactful course from your book.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: You know, most authors stop when they have written, published, and marketed their book, but there's one final step, and that is creating a course to build an additional stream of income and help your readers engage at a deeper level.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: And monetize your book with a course, my friend Lucas Marino teaches you how to determine your ideal student, develop your curriculum, implement a learning management system, market the course, find your students, and much more, even if you've never taught a course before.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're ready to take your book to the next level and learn how to launch your course, go to dailywriterlife.comslash monetize to grab this amazing resource.
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  SPEAKER_00: I promise you, you're gonna love it.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's really, really good.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: All right, as always, thanks my friend for listening, and I will see you next time.