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All Progress is Progress · 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.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyRiderLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Social media for authors can be great because it lets us connect with so many other people around the world.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: But it also has a downside, which is basically feeling jealous when you see the wins that other writers are having.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Let's be honest, we've all felt it just let's have a moment of collective honesty here.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: All of us have seen other cool wins that authors are having, and we felt a little bit jealous.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Now, even though we see their wins, we don't see the struggle and the failure or the heartaches that went into creating those wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: So remember, anytime that you see a win, it's just part of the picture.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the whole picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why you need to celebrate every inch of progress that you're making as a writer.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: Because nobody sees your full picture either.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't see the hard work that goes into your books and your blog and other client work and other kinds of things that you're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's important for you to celebrate that success because so often it goes unseen by everybody else.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's some examples.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you write some words today?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you learn something about publishing today?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you attend a session for your writing group?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you have lunch with an author or set up a chat with another writer?
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  SPEAKER_00: If so, that's a win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you talk to an editor or a graphic designer about your next book project?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you spend some time marketing your book today?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a win.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, and you see where I'm going with this, whatever you did today to further your writing and author business, you won.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: You had a win.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember that old fable about the tortoise and the hare?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that was one of Aesop's fables.
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  SPEAKER_00: The tortoise won because he kept plodding along, making constant progress.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Even though the hare or the rabbit started out really fast, the tortoise won eventually because he kept making constant progress.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the moral of the story here is that slow and steady wins the race.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only person you need to keep score against is the person you were yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, all progress is progress.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's today's challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to find an author who has recently posted a win on social media and congratulate them on making consistent progress and getting a cool win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then see what you can learn from that person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I have to tell you, one of the people in my circle and in my network who I really admire for their constant progress and success is my good friend Christy Griffith, who owns Thumbprint Creative.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Christy has worked on a lot of different books I've been a part of, some of them my books, some of them friends books, some of them books for some of my clients.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: And she is so consistent and so talented and just so easy to work with.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: I really, really have appreciated her over the years.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, one of the things to think about whenever you have a business like mind, which is primarily ghostwriting, but I also lead our membership group, the Daily Writer Club.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: I do author coaching, I run a mastermind, um, I do this podcast, I do a lot of different things, but they're all around books.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the key things that a lot of people don't think about until you do this job like on a serious basis, is you've got to have your bench of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I mean by that is you you've got to have kind of a small group of people that you work with on a regular basis.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to have one or two really great editors you work with, you've got to have graphic designers, you've got to have people involved in publishing and marketing.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you've got to have different kinds of editors because some books need different things.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got to have other people who you can refer work to when you can't handle it all or if it's something you don't want to do, and vice versa.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm so thankful for Christy because she has been such a consistent presence in my business really over the last gosh, way before I was doing this full time.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she actually did the the cover for my second book, The Artist Suitcase, which came out in 2015, and I knew her long before that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Christy actually did a lot of graphic design work for the college where I used to teach.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how I got to know her in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she's really, really wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you are looking for somebody to do the interior layout and cover design for your book, Christy is the person to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can check out her designs by going to go thumbprint.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's her website.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you would like a personal intro to Christy, just shoot me an email.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would be happy to do that.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: My email is Kent at dailyriderlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shoot me an email anytime.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: I would be happy to connect to you directly with Christy.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: All right, my friend, as always, thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.