Feedback Friday Reflections

All right. Hey, it's Adam W. Varney, Energy Coach, back here today with Build & Public Daily. It's Friday, about 3 p.m. here on the East Coast, and I just wanted to check in because it's one of those Fridays where feedback came through. Luckily, Feedback Friday is easier to digest than what I saw in my corporate career with Fire Drill Fridays, so that's not bad.

When it comes to the journey with getting Make Your Own Glass Half Full taken from draft to the revised, copy-written, copy-edited final version to come out in July, today was one of those days where feedback just came in, and I had an opportunity to have a nice introductory conversation with my revisions editor today. I have to say it's been a couple weeks since the fundraiser presale for the book ended, and that's been a little bit of a relief. So I've been able to take a little break, as I mentioned in my episode about imposter impostures earlier this week.

But today, it's about time to kick back into the work on this book, even though there's a million other things happening. The revisions editing, I think, can feel a little daunting, and that applies to a lot of situations in professional life, not only on a creator journey here, where you get feedback, and feedback is daunting, it's intimidating, it feels heavy. So dealing with feedback and letting it kind of, you know, taking that Snoop Dogg sort of perspective of letting it roll off your shoulders isn't a bad place to be.

I got a pretty significant amount of feedback on the draft, which is just over 43,000 words, so there's a lot of content in there. And I will admit, just in this sort of public manner, a lot of it felt like writing gobbledygook. And I know that there's a clear structure and thought process within it that will refine over time, but that's a big thing to lean upon and to have to deal with. And it opens you up, you know, in this situation where that true writing that I did to get to that draft, you know, now has the feedback from three very deeply experienced people who sit more in that revisions editing space, and that can feel a little bit daunting as well.

But the important thing that I was reminded of today is that even though I have a structure I need to follow over the next 16 weeks, this is my writing, and that was reiterated. The revisions editor will read it line by line. There's two other pieces of feedback in there already, but it's my writing, and ultimately it's my decision.
I've put a piece of myself out there to the world. That said, I do have a monumental task of getting through a very unfamiliar citations piece, but I'll get there as well. This weekend, I'll be reading a 48-page document about citations, keeping me a bit busy. But that's learning, and it's just like a lot of things when it comes to feedback. If you get a big chunk of feedback in your corporate career or in building your business, that feedback can hurt you. It can chip away at you, but let it roll off your shoulder. We'll get through this and work through it.

I realized I need a structure in place, and that's what I'm going to be working towards in testing. I've looked ahead and blocked as much time on my calendar over the next six weeks as I can to initially put those guardrails in place to drive focused time during the day, so I can work through the feedback in a methodical way. I'll be going through the introduction next week and also doing a once-over re-look at the core lessons from the 13 chapters that I have, as well as gut checking that each one starts with a compelling hook. Through the feedback I've gotten, I need to work a little bit on that, but it's going to be fun and doable as long as I break it into chunks and have that structure on my shoulders.

So, it's late on a Friday, and I wanted to share a little bit of feedback inspiration. More to come next week as I start to dive into this revisions process. It's going to be a heavyweight, but it's going to be worth it, and ultimately this will take my position and my desire with scaling up visibility with "Make Your Own Glass Half Full" to the next level. It's a path towards a bigger solution.

Anyway, it's Adam W. Barney again, Energy Coach. Thanks for joining me here on Build & Public Daily, and have a great weekend.