Thank you for this helpful article! And today I learned you have a new book?! ORDERED! I have gifted multiple copies of *How to be Yourself* to my coaching clients
Lowering the pressure internally & externally can change the whole ball game. We just need to understand that even if we blow up it doesn't matter that much in the long run, yeah some things matter a lot in the present moment but we just need not take ourselves seriously. Here we are on earth for a very finite amount of time and we need to feel pressure unnecessarily. I know all these things are way easier said than done but I was dealing with for the last 27 Years of my life, but now I am incorporating that okay let's see if it matters in a decade and most of things generally don't & yeah I am taking it easy on myself and life is all about taking risks and most of the times calculated ones , sometimes delusional ones.
Talking about the THING has saved my butt when it comes to having to do book promotion. It's not in my DNA to so self-promotion, but I believe in the BOOK.
PS--my inner critic looks like Paul Reuben's Prince Gerhardt character in 30 Rock.
This is SO HELPFUL, Ellen! Thank you! Wrestling with upcoming book promotion and my hatred of talking about myself (including writing about my writing process--as one potential publicist suggested...)
And I'm reading and loving your book. Many thanks.
Congrats on YOUR book! That's a huge accomplishment! Yes, I'm struck by how personal promotion has become. I find myself feeling pulled to stick to the book content and largely do, but I've taken a few risks in talking about myself and I think (???) it's been okay. I haven't been arrested or publicly shamed yet!
Thank you, Ellen! Reading your work, I feel confident that with your remarkable emotional intelligence, whatever you share would be both intriguing and, though the word “appropriate“ seems so prim, also that.
Thank you for this helpful article! And today I learned you have a new book?! ORDERED! I have gifted multiple copies of *How to be Yourself* to my coaching clients
Wow, thank you so much!! I hope it's been helpful to your clients. I'm so glad to be doing YN6M with you!
Lowering the pressure internally & externally can change the whole ball game. We just need to understand that even if we blow up it doesn't matter that much in the long run, yeah some things matter a lot in the present moment but we just need not take ourselves seriously. Here we are on earth for a very finite amount of time and we need to feel pressure unnecessarily. I know all these things are way easier said than done but I was dealing with for the last 27 Years of my life, but now I am incorporating that okay let's see if it matters in a decade and most of things generally don't & yeah I am taking it easy on myself and life is all about taking risks and most of the times calculated ones , sometimes delusional ones.
Wise words! I like your division of risks into calculated and delusional.
Thanks Ellen, I really love this, especially talking about the THING rather than me. Such a simple shift that feels much lighter.
And thanks Rosalind, because *same*
I think my inner critic does in fact have that hairdo 😆
Talking about the THING has saved my butt when it comes to having to do book promotion. It's not in my DNA to so self-promotion, but I believe in the BOOK.
PS--my inner critic looks like Paul Reuben's Prince Gerhardt character in 30 Rock.
This is SO HELPFUL, Ellen! Thank you! Wrestling with upcoming book promotion and my hatred of talking about myself (including writing about my writing process--as one potential publicist suggested...)
And I'm reading and loving your book. Many thanks.
Congrats on YOUR book! That's a huge accomplishment! Yes, I'm struck by how personal promotion has become. I find myself feeling pulled to stick to the book content and largely do, but I've taken a few risks in talking about myself and I think (???) it's been okay. I haven't been arrested or publicly shamed yet!
Thank you, Ellen! Reading your work, I feel confident that with your remarkable emotional intelligence, whatever you share would be both intriguing and, though the word “appropriate“ seems so prim, also that.
Hey thanks! I am indeed appropriate, for better or worse. 😂 I'm sure you'll do the same with your book promotion--very excited for you!
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I love all of this. Thank you for normalizing awkwardness ❤️
I mean, what's more awkward than humans trying to communicate?