SPI 876: Life After Publishing a Book (1 Week Later)

It is Tuesday, June 10th, and it's been exactly seven days since the public launch of my new book, Lean Learning. And first of all, I want to thank you to those of you who have purchased it and have supported it. Many of you have left reviews, which is amazing, but I'm not here to ask for that. I'm here to essentially give you everything that's going on in my head right now after what might be the toughest week I've had in a very long time.

And I say tough in a way where in some cases, yes, tough because it was hard and negative, but also tough because it's just a grind and loving some of it as well. So I just wanted to distill this and have this be a marker, if you will, for this moment in time because it's definitely a moment of time. It's a momentous one, I will say. Again, if I'm all over the place, excuse me, I am sitting here with bags under my eyes. I'm sitting here at about 10% low battery.

I got the yellow battery, if not red, now because of how much energy I've used. Launching a book. is one of the hardest things you can do. Unless you have already a list of people who are buyers who have purchased your books, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle. Now it's interesting that I say that, right?

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