How’s everyone doing on their coloring books so far? · Book Boss Academy

How’s everyone doing on their coloring books so far?

I’m still plugging along on my ABCs Coloring Book. I picked a book topic I thought would be easy peasy. I even had a “PLR” head start. Then I made what I thought would be a simple tweak to give the book a unique content slant, but it added A LOT more time to the production process I didn’t anticipate.

I’m sticking with it 100%, but it’s proven to be an unintended learning experience re: budgeting time and keeping things streamlined, without compromising the customer’s experience.

My Desire: Choose profitable medium content book topics I can publish start-to-finish in a week or so. Finding Abbie and this community was straight up Divine Intervention. You guys are amazing role models. You do not navel gaze and ponder all the ways to do something. You are DOERS. I am becoming a delightful DOER too.

My “Ahhha” Moment: The more books I have under my belt, the more intel I gather on where I‘m most likely to over-complicate and trip myself up. Put in the reps. Build new muscles. Duh, right?

Guiding Principle: Gather more reliable data, faster, by publishing MORE quality books. Don’t agonize for weeks and months on ONE book until it’s “perfect.” It won’t be perfect. Nothing is.

This is an amazing mind shift for me. I’ve been a self-publishing books student for over a year - I spent a small fortune I didn’t have to get into the “Write 30K Books” University. I’m always an excellent student, but until two weeks ago, I’d never uploaded anything to Amazon. My first “book” is a cute blank lined Composition book. It’s still in the review process after being blocked LAST week. But 14 months later, I’m finally out of the classroom and into the game! #celebratetheWIN

It is exhilarating to observe this shift in stubborn ole me. 7 decades later and I’m finally releasing paralyzing false perfectionism and embracing finishing what I start! Who knew that was even possible?

So even though I’m only on damn “R” for Robot when I expected to be finalizing my cover today, this exactly where I’m supposed to be. 😎 And tomorrow … let the cover designing begin!

How are y’all coming along? 😎

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