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Whatever your goals are, whatever you're trying to do with your life, there's that little blip of a moment where you hesitate, wondering if you're ready. You're ready.

Or you're not.

But you will be.

And the way you get there is to START. Here. Now. Right away. Even if the action you take is just some dive into trying it out or learning more about it, every action counts, and every action moves you forward.

Closer to your goal is the goal. So start, even if you're not ready. What I didn't mention is that "start before you ready" is a very stoic idea. I like stoicism as a philosophy, because it hinges on self-reliance and personal responsibility.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

marketing, writing, word, coffee shops, improve, learn, includes, editing process, slinger, hesitating, making, mark, focus, digital marketing, ironic, limiting, started, concentrate, photoshop, diving

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Kevin Tumlinson

Kevin Tumlinson  00:09

6am this is about the time I roll out to my one of my coffee shops. I have to rotate coffee shops. Because if I go to the same coffee shop too often people start to recognize me. And then they want to talk and I don't mind talking and that's the problem.

Kevin Tumlinson  01:05

I figure the mark of success is that it always comes back to are you improving? whatever it is you're focused on. I'm a writer. So I focus on writing a lot. And I can judge my success by whether or not I'm improving, and all the things that matter. That includes money. I mean, that includes making money from the books that I write, but it also includes refining my editing process and making more contacts that I can leverage for better opportunities. But there's a lot that goes into writing really, that, you know, I for years, I ignored. I don't want to ignore that anymore. I haven't been ignoring that. I've actually been focusing quite a bit on, you know, building up this whole process and technique for not just writing the book, but producing it, getting it out into the world and then marketing that book. Marketing always seemed like a dirty word to me. Which is ironic, because Mark getting really is a big part of my life. I do marketing for drafter digital marketing for the word slinger podcast, I do marketing for all these other things, the silos things that are a part of my life. Marketing doesn't have to be scary. It actually isn't all that scary marketing is just putting your work out there so that it can be found by the right person at the right time when they're ready to buy it. That's the line I give everybody all the time.

Kevin Tumlinson  02:39

So one of the things I've dealt with a lot in everything I do is limiting myself or I start hesitating because I don't know everything or I don't know what I need to do. First what I need to concentrate on is this concept that has come up lot in any research, I've done any studying I've done and it's all about starting before you're ready, you hear that phrase a lot, right? I think that is actually the key. Like everything I ever learned that was useful in any way. It started first. With me just diving in. You know, I wanted to learn how to use Photoshop back in my 20s and I just dove in and did some stuff in Photoshop. I wanted to learn how to edit video. I did that. And you know, there's always room to improve on all this stuff. But you can improve on something unless you're already doing it. So start before you're ready.

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Kevin Tumlinson is an award-winning and bestselling thriller author and podcast host. He travels the world looking for interesting tidbits of history and culture to fold into his work, and spends much of his time writing from hotels, cafes, coffee shops, and the occasional ride line at Disney World. Find more of Kevin and his work, including novels and podcasts, at KevinTumlinson.com.