Are You Feeling Overwhelmed with All the Details of Publishing and Marketing Your Book?

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Are you feeling overwhelmed in all the details that is required in publishing and marketing your book? If so, I want to let you know you. You're not alone. Hi, my name is Shelly Hitz. I'm an author coach and I specialize in helping authors to self publish and market their books to get their message out to more people. And I'm on a mission to help you reach more people with your message. It's time to let your light shine. But believe me, I understand. It can feel overwhelming on certain days because there are so many things you could do. And, and every day I have to personally prioritize and just really decide, okay, what are my highest impact tasks? What are the priority tasks I'm gonna do today? Right now, it's just a season of intensity for me. I'm writing and in the middle of like 10 different book projects. Now, I don't normally recommend doing that much stuff all at once, but it's just the way that it happened. I have a ton of people helping me. I'm working with some, several different co authors, which really helped me. I'm in the midst of preparing for the book launch of Broken Crayons Still Color, and that is a huge project in and of itself. I've been recording interviews for a new podcast that will be Broken Crayons Still Color podcast. So that is fun, but there's a ton of details. I need to get the intro, the outro, I need to edit these. I need to, you know, I mean, I could go on and on and on. And I know that many of you feel the same. I know that many of you are just like, ah, what is going on?

Let's just breathe. Let's take a moment to breathe. Well, today I was sitting down and lately I have felt prompted to, during my prayer times, write out in my journal, my prayers, and then I will stop and really try to listen to God and hear his voice. And I will just listen. And what I sense him saying to me, I'll write out in my journals. So I really felt led today to share what I sensed God saying to me today. Now, I didn't hear an audible voice, but this is just what I sensed him saying to me today. And I want to share this with you. So this is what I felt like he said to me today, says, be still and know that I am God. Now that's directly from scripture. And then he went on to say, put your full weight into me. I can handle it. You can't. You weren't created to be able to handle everything you're carrying. Let me carry it for you. Put your burden in my hands. And so I literally was picturing the burdens that I have been feeling lately, the responsibility, all of the details, all of the things. And I just visualized myself almost like taking rocks out of a backpack or that I'm carrying. And in transferring that weight, that burden in to his hands and into his care, it's not that the burden goes away. It's not that the details go away, the decisions go away. It's just that it's not weighing me down. I'm trusting God to show me the way, to give me the wisdom, to give me the insight, to provide what I need, to provide the people, to help me, to provide the income that I need, to do the things that I sense him calling me to do. And I encourage you to do the same today. Have that release of your burden to him. Cast your burden on him, the Bible says. And so I just wanted to also share a scripture. I was doing an interview for one of my broken Crayons still color podcast this morning, and it was right after God had spoke this to me. The scripture she shared was similar to this one here. This one's in Matthew 11. I think she might have shared it from a different, different gospel in the New Testament. But this one, it says Matthew 11, 29 and 30. And it was just went exactly with what I needed to hear today. And I wanted to share it with you today. Says, take my yoke upon you. This is Jesus speaking. He says, take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Take my yoke, he says, upon you, and you will find rest for your souls. He doesn't say, you might. I mean, now this is a day by day thing. Sometimes it's a minute by minute thing. But he says, you will find rest for your souls. And then it says, for my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light. And so his burden is easy. His burden is light. Sometimes we are striving in our own strength. We are doing things that we, we think we need to do when God's just saying, chill, you don't need to be chasing all these things. Keep your eyes on me, listen to me, and I will show you the way. And so he keeps reminding me that I Don't have to do it in my own strength. He's going to provide the way he's going to provide the provision. If it's his will, he will provide for what we need. It may not be in our timing, but it will happen. And he will give us wisdom, insight. And I just have to trust him today with all the details of everything that's going, going on in my life. And I pray that you would too. Let me just pray over you right now and then we will close this down. Dear God, I just thank you so much for each person listening to this training right now. And I know what it feels like to be in the midst of a flurry of activities and to have a million things that you feel like are on a to do list. I pray that each one of us would just take a moment to breathe.

Breathe in your peace and breathe out anxiety, Lord, to transfer our burdens from carrying them ourselves to putting them into your hands. We release our burdens to you today, Lord. I pray for each person that is listening. I pray that you would give them wisdom, insight, provision. You would provide everything they need to be able to write, publish and market their books, Lord, that you would give them divine inspiration, divine guidance. You would show them where to get the information they need, what to do next, and that there would just be a huge burden lifted off of them right now. In Jesus name, thank you for what you're gonna do in and through each of our lives. We give you all the glory, all the praise. Amen. All right, well, I will talk to you guys soon. I have another podcast interview coming up for my new podcast, Broken Crayons Still Color. It will probably launch sometime in November. I really don't know all the details yet. It will depend on when my book is finished. It's with the editor right now. But it's exciting times, busy times, but fruitful times. So I pray blessings on your day and I will see you next time. Bye Bye.

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