Hello, you!

How are you?

I’d like to celebrate how I’ve become better at choosing ease.

I’m now less about wanting to do it all on my own. Allowing myself to be supported was not the easiest thing for me to learn to do but I see how I’ve improved in many areas of my life.

But for now I’m gonna reflect on the distribution aspect of my children’s book, Tumi Goes to the Park, which was published in March of 2017. For a few years it was only available online. It’s been featured on many websites globally and has been translated into a few languages including Japanese and Norwegian.

As the years went by, there was a demand for the hard copy so I had it printed. The project management just on that was a headache but me being me back then, I was determined to do it all alone. Yikes! So I ran the marketing, took the orders via WhatsApp and other social media platforms, generated invoices, confirmed that payment was received, did the packaging, deliveries, posting and more! 🤯

How tiring! 🥴

It’s insane how I used to do more and more and more so I could achieve my goals at all costs and compromised my health. Typical overachiever type A behaviour.

Anyway, next I build myself an e-commerce website so that my customers could easily place orders and pay without needing me to be involved. Then I found a courier company to come to my place to collect orders.

Sur,e this reduced my work load but it still sucked because booking deliveries for the courier company and doing the packaging myself was not it. 👎🏾

So I decided to explore Takealot because I wanted to do less. The onboarding process was too much for me but the day-to-day work does not involve me which is great meaning I don’t have to do much.

Yay, me! 💃🏾

And this is a big deal to me because sweartogod, I have some kind of vow of hard work which I’m working through. I’m continuing to accept that it’s okay to do less and have ease. And have support.

It’s made me appreciate that my second book, The Book of Proverb, which I co-wrote with ProVerb who's a South African hip hop legend, executive producer and host of Idols SA as well as a businessman, does not require any involvement from me for distribution.

You can order it on Takealot too.

What are you celebrating today?

Here's the link to access everything I have mentioned above:

http://linktr.ee/comeseebeyond

I’ve opened my six months self-celebration programme and would like to invite you to join if, like me, you are type-A overachiever. I will support you as you learn to celebrate yourself and will teach you the following:

-Start learning how your ancestors would like you to celebrate yourself

-Being more consistent and intentional with celebrating yourself

-Letting go of perfectionism

-Believing you are good enough

-Learning to do less

-Letting go of swinging from one achievement to the next without pausing to pat yourself on the back

-Being comfortable with visibility

If you are interested, please click the Self-Celebration Coach Form in the link below: 

http://linktr.ee/comeseebeyond

Wishing you a loving week ahead.

All my love,

Gogo Pabi