194 – Your Relationships, Are Your Fault! - a podcast by Alf Herigstad

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Your Relationships, Are Your Fault!You may have tuned in today expecting to hear a story.  It would make sense, after all I have been telling stories on Wednesday for over a year now.  I hope you aren’t too disappointed, but today I don’t have a story.
I have not run out of stories entirely…but there is a finite supply of them, seeing as how I just have this one life and everything.  So the stories may be a bit more sporadic going forward, because I don’t want to use them all up and not have any more to tell.The other reason there is no story today is because I honestly just have other things on my mind.  You know what I mean…spring can do that to you.  For me, when the seasons change I have to go through this period of adjustment.  When spring comes and everything starts growing There are so many things I need to get done that I couldn’t do in the winter months. 
I have baby lambs now, there is a garden to plant, I still have wood to split and things to build…it can be a little overwhelming.  So that is part of what is occupying my brain.On top of that, my book went live on amazon today, at least the eBook portion of it did.  Thats right, you can go to Amazon right now and type in my name or the book title; Forging A Man, and it will pop right up.  Just so you know, it’s going to be free for the next 5 days, from the 19th to the 23rd.  After that it will be $3.99.  I wanted to make it free for a few days so that all of you could download it and leave a review for me on Amazon.   There is a link below to make it easy.
Those Amazon reviews are really important because they determine how visible the book is to new readers, so I really appreciate you doing that in exchange for the free eBook.The print book will be out in about a week, I’m waiting to get the proof to look over before I unleash it onto the world.  I’ll let you know when that one is available as well…and you really should have both of them anyway, and don’t forget they will make a great gift too.
That kind of leads in to what I want to talk about today.  You might be thinking I don’t have a topic…but I do. Getting this book finished is a monumental thing for me.  It’s the culmination of a lifetime of not only living…but paying attention while I was living.  My dad told me the other day that he remembers when I was in high school, and I wanted to write a book way back then.  So it’s a big thing for me, but I didn’t do it alone.  I have people.  People who have stepped up to help me bring this thing to fruition.  That’s really what I want to talk about is the people who have helped me, because I couldn’t do this alone.  I couldn’t do any of this alone.
You know how I’m always saying that our relationships are the most precious things we possess?  Every day that I live proves that, because the relationships I have are what makes my life valuable enough to do anything.There are 19 people that agreed to be part of the launch team for the book.  Throughout this process they have been giving me their insights and helping me edit.  They encourage me and tell me when I’m on the right track and when I’m not, and now that it’s time to publish they are going to be helping me spread the word and write reviews and all that stuff that needs to be done.
I’m not paying these people.  They are doing it out of the goodness of their heart, because they believe in the books mission, and because of the relationship I have established with them.  It’s really amazing, and I’m super grateful for each one of them.On the day to day front there is one person who is head and shoulders above the rest of the pack, and that’s my wife Lulie.  You know before I release any episode, she listens to it first.  She either gives me the green light, or she tells me that I might want to word something differently.  She doesn’t tell me what to talk about or how, but She is always encouraging me to “be kind to my...

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