S2E28: Ingrid J. Adams, author and the importance of finding your own way

Yeah absolutely and I think this idea of success how this changes as well like you know as you said that first time you're just happy if someone reads it and then it changes the more you have out there and I know that this gets in the way for many authors.

It does because it gets addictive.

It does because suddenly you're getting all these rankings and you're getting all these reviews on social media and you're getting all these followers and you're getting people, you know, you're seeing your sales go up.

You're seeing your page reads on KDP go up and it becomes almost addictive, not addictive, but it becomes, it fuels you because you think, wow, it's actually getting out there.

And then you want more of that.

Yeah, yeah.

I do think that someone should write a paper some stage about this idea of success because I think it can really get in the way for a lot of creatives

because

you never quite get there.

No, what do they say? When there becomes here, you get a new there.

You know, the grass is always greener.

You think, all I want is this.

And you get that and you think, that was great, but now I want this.

And you don't actually take the time to sit in that and go, wow, I achieved that.

I mean, when I did get to number one on Amazon, I remember my mum and my husband saying, we need to celebrate.

And I'm like, oh, it's not a big deal.

It's only in one category.

And they're like, no, your aim this year was to hit number one on Amazon.

You got there.

celebrate it and I'm oh no no no because you think it doesn't matter and it's true I think we need to celebrate the little wins as we come along and as we go and appreciate the success that we get because it's so easy to get caught up on what's next what's next I've hit that next it's this next it's this next it's that and and instead of just sitting in the moment and saying wow I did that and that was my aim for the year

we don't get

enough credit

Yeah, I agree.

I think we do need to pause at each of those milestones and just really sit in that celebration because otherwise we are rushing to the next milestone.

You know, raising the bar,