A few people have already taken my writing priority survey (THANK YOU!) and one thing is coming out loud and clear: I am failing to cross-promote (or just plain promote) a lot of what I am doing. The most common answer and comment was “didn’t know this existed” and “this is the first I’ve heard of these projects!”
As with many other things we do, it seems there is a curtain obscuring the world’s view. I discovered earlier this week that our CafePress store was in sad shape so I spent a bunch of time adding keywords and descriptions and re-arranging sections so that Google can actually find our stuff. Do I self-sabotage? Hard to tell… but… it’s definitely time to try harder to be seen and to raise the curtain….
Right now, I could probably use a combined marketing & self-esteem bootcamp — I’ve never excelled at self-promotion but people seem to like what I do (and what Mike does, under our combined Those DeWolfes banner). I’m really good at putting roadblocks in front of myself — I’m watching my daughter do exactly the same thing with her homework; she’s spent the last hour trying to find “just the right picture” to trace for her assignment.
I’ve been thinking about roadblocks for a couple of days. When we did our goal mapping workshop, I couldn’t figure out the concept that “the path of least resistance” would move me forward — to me the path of least resistance was sitting on the sofa. I know it all boils down to fear — I’m easily as afraid of success as I am of failure, it’s all change.
But then, the planet keeps throwing stuff at me — all this (plus my daughter’s unintentionally spot-on re-enactment of exactly what I do all the damned time) has crossed my path in the last 48 hours:
- Which of the four are getting in the way?
- Change is the path – Fear is the Enemy.
- Holstee Manifesto Poster
- Don’t Fear the Change (– I love the visual “stop watering the fear plant” –)
- even Tony freaking Robbins stepped into my path.
OK, YES. I GET IT.
It’s time to raise the curtain and move ahead. Here I go.