The Places We Don't Interfere
Most of us have at least one area where we naturally step aside. We see it doesn’t evolve around us, giving space for the activity to flow. Whether this happens in parenting, leadership, drawing, cooking, it doesn’t matter.
For me, it's writing. The words show up, or they don't. I've apparently stopped wrestling with them. Stopped trying to make them be something they're not.
But this can happen with anything, even the things that used to feel like effort. Promoting work is often one of them.
So I started focusing on book promotion. The irony? Learning to let go of my focus while I educate myself about it.
Different areas. Same thing happening: stepping aside so the activity can move naturally.
You'd think that once you know how to embody this in one place, you'd naturally do it everywhere. That would make sense, right? But certain things don’t make sense.
My writing seems to flow, but marketing my books can often be quite of a challenge. I see myself sometimes going back to thinking I need to do it the right way.
So what do I do? Write a book about it, just like I did for writing. The writer dissolved. Now I'm doing the same for marketing. Let the marketer fade so the marketing can flow. Same principles, different application.
The book on stepping aside as a writer within your writing releases in two weeks. It's called The Art of Unwriting. If you want to receive a notification when it's available, just send me a dm with "Get notified".
I often talk about how writing is reading and reading is writing. Meaning, you don't have to write a book about any activity to stop standing in your own way. You can simply read and live it, as if you wrote it yourself.
