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It’s Business, Not Personal · 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: Before I get into today's episode, I want to give you a quick update on some changes that you'll see here on the podcast beginning December the first.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: The Daily Writer Podcast launched about three years ago in November 2020.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: And since that time, we've produced well over a thousand daily episodes, and we featured about 150 guest interviews.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: And after talking so much about daily writing and the importance of writing habits, I want to shift the conversation to the biggest point of frustration that I hear about from writers, which is how to actually build a business around your writing.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm excited to announce that on December the 1st, we will officially launch the Profitable Writer Podcast.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: The purpose of this show, as well as a book and membership community that you'll hear about very soon, is to give you the inspiration, motivation, and a clear roadmap to building a writing business that gives you part-time or full-time income.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: The format of the podcast will be different.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: We'll still do a weekly interview in addition to one or two other episodes per week, but it won't be a daily podcast.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: And if you really love the daily format, I encourage you to go back into the archives and listen to any of the thousand plus episodes that we have there.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: You'll hear much more in the coming weeks about the Profitable Writer Podcast and more, but you don't need to do anything different because it'll still stay in the same podcast feed.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: However, you will notice a name change along with new podcast artwork.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: As always, thanks for listening.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get into today's episode.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: The 1972 movie The Godfather is probably one of the most often quoted movies in history because it gave us so many great lines.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: One of the lines that people most often quote is, it's a business, not personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is actually a slight misquote than what's actually used in the movie, but that's not really my main point here.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: One of the running themes in The Godfather is the ongoing war between different New York mafia families.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: In the family who's the main focus of the story, which is the Corleone family, some people in the family take things very personally, and some recognize that it's just business.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: Now, setting aside the fact that The Godfather is all about people doing really bad things, okay, so just set that aside for a second.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: There's an important principle for life at business here, and it's this you shouldn't take everything personally.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there are times as a writer when things are just not going to go your way.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: You'll get rejected by a publisher, an agent, or a client.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody will leave a negative book review.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: People will unsubscribe from your newsletter and the list goes on and on.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: Now, almost none of these things are actually personal.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: They're just part of the writing and publishing life.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I would argue that almost nothing in life is quote unquote personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason is that people do things for all sorts of different reasons.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: And their actions toward you almost always reflect their own feelings, motives, and personality much more than they reflect your personal worth.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: So if you can learn to roll with the punches and not take things so personally when things don't go your way, you're going to have a much easier time as a writer.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Take those experiences and learn from them, but never take them personally.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: As always, my friend, thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.