Tiny, tiny bricks and a 'help me?'
Hello you!
First time I’ve ever uploaded a video to one of these Substacks and look! It’s a handy new effect I learned.
It’s also the third Ink & Impact notebook, which is all about taking your goals and turning them into action plans.
This is the most powerful of all the workbooks, as it’s the nitty-gritty of it all. The what, when and how of it.
There’s a line in it that says:
Bridge the gap between here and where you want to be with tiny bricks, not massive ones that are too hard and heavy to keep carrying.
And I know I just quoted myself and it’s a bit ick, but I couldn’t think of how else to do it, and how else to tell you that all this author branding takes time.
I talk to so many people who want it all done in a week, or a month, or yesterday, but it takes a while to build up a community.
So even if you’re not following through the workbooks, but reading this and thinking how you can start creating your author platform now, start small.
Really small.
Don’t commit to posting three times a week on Instagram, doing a weekly newsletter and a Facebook Live once a month if you know it’s not realistic. Because nothing is more demoralising than setting goals and realising really quickly that they’re just not sustainable.
You’re more likely to give up on the whole thing.
So today, think what’s the one tiny brick you can put on that bridge to get you to where you’re going?
Do that.
Have a great weekend,
Zoe x
PS. Could you help me a bit? After working through these workbooks, and thinking about how I show up on socials, could you answer this question over on my Instagram account? THANK YOU!