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Inspiration and Motivation
I've talked about how my writing has been inspired by God, and specifically through the Holy Spirit. However, I also owe a lot of my motivation to God. I must admit, if God is going to inspire you, it only makes sense that he will provide you motivation as well. In my case, while God motivated me throughout the writing of Return To Paradise, he has also continued to motivate me as I work to market the book. Often, the inspiration and the motivation seem to have come hand in hand.
One prime example of this occurred about a week after Return To Paradise was first published . I knew going in that it would take work to market the book. I just never had focused on it, and had never developed a marketing plan. So now my book was published and I found myself playing catch-up. As I usually do when I undertake a new task, I did quite a bit of research and reading on what to do and how to do it. And to be perfectly honest, I was beginning to feel somewhat lost and overwhelmed. Then about three in the morning on a Sunday, I woke up and could not go back to sleep. I couldn't get my mind off of the marketing of the book. And a plan began to develop. By four in the morning, I was writing notes on my phone, listing out a twelve point plan.
I was not going to have a lot of time to implement my plan that day, as we were planning on leaving at eleven in the morning to go with some friends to a worship service at a hermitage located about two hours away. And we would not be back until early that evening. Despite my lack of sleep that past night, I was up early and set to work on my marketing plan. By the time we left, I had my Facebook Author page up and running, and I had registered a domain name for my web page, set up the hosting, and started to work on the web page itself. I would finish the web page that evening . By the end of that week I had finished, or started in the case of ongoing tasks, every item on my list.
While it did take work on my part to accomplish this, it came at a time when I was feeling overwhelmed, and as a result, had not been accomplishing much. It is my belief, that the only reason I was able to accomplish what I did, was through the inspiration and motivation provided to me by God.
One prime example of this occurred about a week after Return To Paradise was first published . I knew going in that it would take work to market the book. I just never had focused on it, and had never developed a marketing plan. So now my book was published and I found myself playing catch-up. As I usually do when I undertake a new task, I did quite a bit of research and reading on what to do and how to do it. And to be perfectly honest, I was beginning to feel somewhat lost and overwhelmed. Then about three in the morning on a Sunday, I woke up and could not go back to sleep. I couldn't get my mind off of the marketing of the book. And a plan began to develop. By four in the morning, I was writing notes on my phone, listing out a twelve point plan.
I was not going to have a lot of time to implement my plan that day, as we were planning on leaving at eleven in the morning to go with some friends to a worship service at a hermitage located about two hours away. And we would not be back until early that evening. Despite my lack of sleep that past night, I was up early and set to work on my marketing plan. By the time we left, I had my Facebook Author page up and running, and I had registered a domain name for my web page, set up the hosting, and started to work on the web page itself. I would finish the web page that evening . By the end of that week I had finished, or started in the case of ongoing tasks, every item on my list.
While it did take work on my part to accomplish this, it came at a time when I was feeling overwhelmed, and as a result, had not been accomplishing much. It is my belief, that the only reason I was able to accomplish what I did, was through the inspiration and motivation provided to me by God.
