What an exciting time for me!

Over the last two weeks, I have released my first book out into the Wild.

It has been an incredible experience. Any of you who know me or have been a part of either of my other blog sites over the last few years know how much I love learning new things. (www.beawesome365.com, http://www.sportsdocdc.com)

Authorship is new!  It is exciting, but the process of what to do after the book is released has been very eye-opening.

About 99% of authors out there release a book and feel like they finished the race.

“Ahhh , I did it.  Grandma can order it from Kindle now. It’s real.”

I definitely had that sensation.  For about 15 minutes.

I quickly realized that what-

I thought was the finish was only the starter’s gun.

In my real life, I run a business. I look at authorship and the idea of creating books as a business. I wouldn’t have spent nearly 2 years in the process if I wasn’t serious about it.

 Just because I look at it as a business also doesn’t mean it’s fake. I stand by everything that I wrote in this book and on this page over the years.

How it came to be:

The truth is, I was struggling a bit as a parent.   We all do.   It’s real, and it happens.  Being a parent is a monster task.

I’ve always been an athlete. I understand the concepts of improvement, work, and learning from mistakes, and wanted to apply them in an area of my life that was so important that just getting by wasn’t good enough.   I deal with wiped-out parents every single day in my clinic and

Didn’t want to feel like that and Wanted to help. 

 I looked at parenting partially as a skill, knowing skills can be improved upon. I had the honest realization that I was playing JV-level parenting and needed to step up my game!

Humility, Humor, Practice, better perspectives, and improved awareness from different angles have helped me figure it out a bit and get, what I think is a great product, out on the market.   

The back cover blurb is a very true representation of how the book came to be in the first place.

“Why do I have to keep making the same mistakes that every parent has made throughout history?”

“Why isn’t this in the parenting handbook!?’ (my wife and I have always joked about the need for one.)

One day, when we were discussing this and I was feeling a bit overwhelmed, my wife said,”Why don’t you just take all these things that you write and think about and put them into a parenting handbook?”

 Well, here it is. I would love for you to check it out if you haven’t already.

Let me know what you think, and understand that this is just the first step.   I am still at a very early stage of this process, and it is really believable how deep it goes.

There are 8 and 1/2 billion people on planet Earth, and I have come to the dramatic realization that I am a lot less famous than I thought I was.

About .0000000001 humans know who I am, and probably 10% of that know that I have a book!

Haha!  Reality.

Amazon, Itunes, Barnes and Noble, and others are all quite happy to let me HAVE a book, but don’t even truly acknowledge it until you’ve received 50 reviews.   That was news. It is learning!   They don’t really even help push you until you’ve received 100!   

 This, and many things like this, I find absolutely fascinating yet at the same time frustrating because during the entire process of writing the book, as a rookie, I never even knew it existed.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I’m having fun doing this. it is something different than my day-to-day job and career as a sports-based chiropractor. It’s something I’m truly passionate about and has changed the way I see the entire industry.  I’ve made new friends, received fantastic advice, and have another “craft” to play with and hack.    I love writing, and Parenting from Out of Bounds has given me a purpose behind it.   Direction is important, even if it is a windy road full of detours and scenic bypasses!

More than anything, it is a new skill to work on and, most importantly, has made me a better husband and dad.     I hope you check it out and enjoy it!

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