Member's Question for Sue · Book Boss Academy

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Member's Question for Sue

Hey everyone!

Here's a question from one of our members Sue inside our WhatsApp Chat Group. I'm posting here because I don't answer questions in that chat thread as as it was set up to be a peer support, accountability and book reviews chat group for Book Boss Students.

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Hi @⁨Abbie cornall⁩ strange question but… I have booked w/c 13th October off work - my plan is to spend the whole week creating and listing at least one winter/xmas word search and at least one journal/log book for the new year…. However, my manager has obviously forgotten and just scheduled a training mtg during that week… and I’m trying to decide whether to be soft and postpone my week off or stick with it. I know that time really is of the essence in getting seasonal stuff listed so do you think I would be cuttng it too fine if I moved my holiday week to the last week in Oct (bear in mind I’ve not yet even created a kdp account or listed anything before so I might have delays in getting used to uploading and getting books approved etc). I’m happy to move my Hol to the following week ONLY if the extra week is not to the detriment of the books because getting this off the ground is my priority.

Actually I don’t think I can have the following week off cos it’s half term and other team members are already off - would first week of November be cutting it too fine?

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So my answer to this is really going back to my post from a couple of days ago....... we really need to look at the big picture of what we are trying to actually achieve here and what our big long term goal is and what can we do THIS week and NEXT WEEK and THIS MONTH and NEXT MONTH to get ourselves moving forwards with those big goals.

Trying to cram book bossing into annual leave is really not the way to go with this because it is going to lead to resentment and frustration.

Remember what I said the other day about my first 22 books not making any sales at all for months and months.

Imagine taking annual leave. Book bossing like crazy. Publishing those books and then getting zero sales. How would you feel about carrying on after that?

I would feel very resentful and like I was wasting my annual leave for nothing!

So I'm not going to answer the question as to whether this is too late or that is too late...... we could potentially publish a xmas book on xmas eve and still generate some xmas sales....

The rule of success is honestly "what can I do TODAY to move a step forwards towards meeting my goals for October"

"What can I do tomorrow......"

"What can I do this weekend......."

If you work even just 30-60 minutes per day then you should be able to get a book created and done and published in 1-2 weeks AND be able to enjoy your time off on annual leave.

Remember the same words list for a word search book can easily be used for 3 or even 4 different word search books so once one is done then the task is to move straight onto the next one!

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ANOTHER TOP TIP when anyone has a question like this they want to answer is to ask the question........ "What would the most successful version of me do?" "How would my most successful version of me going about this?"

Often the answer is to do the absolute OPPOSITE to what we would instinctively do (which might be to never create or publish any books unless theres a whole day or a whole week of annual leave in which to do it in)

..............our most successful version of ourselves is always thinking "what can I do right now/today/this evening to move me towards my goal.

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