I hated sales until I started selling my books - a podcast by Katharine Chan

When you have a product that you believe in, it makes it easier.

I'm an author of 3 books. I needed to sell my books, promote them, tell people about them, get them to resonate with my message and story and then, take their precious hard-earned dollars out of their wallets to spend on me.

It’s the right thing to do but I dreaded it. It became one of those things you know you should do but you don’t want to do them. 

For instance, household chores, laundry, putting the dishes away, wiping the counters, cleaning the sink, toilets, bathtub. 

Or from a health perspective: working out, eating right, drinking water, going to bed early etc. 

And I clumped selling my books into that category.

I can create and create and create until the cows come home…but will people know about it?

Here’s the thing…

Are there days you just want to create, record, write and produce? 

Not marketing, not promoting, not selling, not networking…just in your space, putting your skills to work and seeing the beauty you can contribute to society?

Don’t we all wish we could just do exactly what we want and get paid for it? 

In some ways that is possible…but being a realistic optimist, I believe there will always be things we don’t want to do. If I'm going to do something I don't want to do, I'm going to do it as authentic to me as possible. ⁣

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