The Five-Fold Daily Action Plan For Self-Published Authors
A simple way forward as a busy, self-publishing author.
For most of last year, I have been trying to figure out how to keep growing my bookshelf of books, expand my author platform, and grow my publishing business.
And if you have been around, you know I have a lot going on with family, my day job, and other commitments. So, I have been slowly gathering up information and trying different things over this time.
I have been playing something over and over in my mind recently. It’s a question really, and I thought I might share with you what I have been thinking and the conclusions I have been coming too.
First, the question:
What are the core activities I should be doing as a self-publishing author?
Now, you can go over and ask Chat GPT to answer this question and it will give you a list as long as your arm in a heartbeat. But that wouldn’t do because we are minimalist authors and we only want essential tasks.
Now, I did complete the task above with Chat GPT to see what it would give me, I created a short article on Medium to references it.1 And while it was an adequate response, it didn’t help me narrow things down very well.
So, I decided to take it further by asking more questions, asking Chat GPT to flesh out each one of the points on the original article and then added my own notes into it all. In the end, I had a ton of information.2
So, I have been researching and keeping notes and trying to sort it out into something practice and simple that can help create the most bang for your buck in writing, publishing, promoting, your books and help you grow your platform and business.
In the end, I came up with The Five-Fold Daily Action Plan for Self-Published Authors.
A Five-Fold Approach to Self-Publishing with The Minimalist Author Way
After turning over the information I found, it came clear to me that there are five basic pillars or parts to self-publishing and doing it well. And while there are many parts to each pillar, I saw that we could simplify this into actionable steps.
Most of all, I wanted to create something for myself and other self-publishing authors who have day jobs, families, and other life obligations that mean we are working to grow in a small amount of time.
This approach is to help us to get the reps in and make the most of our time. Like a baseball player hitting off a tee 100 times a day. Or quarterback making 100 throws a day. We need to find the tasks that pay the big bucks but are also the basics to help us to succeed.
And this is what I came up with, five parts with specific tasks you can take everyday to move the ball forward with your writing and publishing business:
Writing
Publishing
Promoting
Platform
Business
Each one of these parts has three daily task options to help you move your efforts toward success as a self-published author. And the way of you can do this without doing 15 actions each day is as follows:
Choose 3 tasks daily from different categories.
Prioritize high-impact activities that align with current goals.
Track progress weekly to stay on course.
So, you create a plan every day using three of the 15 tasks options. Work on those three tasks, and deliver for yourself everyday. If you can do this everyday, you will move your efforts toward success.
So, how do you get this?
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My name is J.R. Heimbigner and I am a #1 Bestselling Author on Amazon with 18 self-published books. I have something I want to share with you:
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