Live in Scotland, sunny Scotland in the uk, and basically my business at the moment, I run a business just now. My husband and I have a small company. It’s a manufacturing, glass manufacturing design business. So we’re very busy with that. I’ve had that for about 21 years now. And whilst it’s a great little business, it’s very demanding of our time. It’s very all consuming. And that was part of my reason really when I saw Sophie’s first video, was to start to look, to have a plan to start to step back from something that was so consuming of time and start to get a bit more time and freedom in my life as my kids were starting to grow older. Oliver’s 19 and my daughter Jolie is 15. To be fair, it was Sophie herself. I felt probably engaged a bit more directly with Sophie in that I felt she was very honest.
What you were seeing, what you were telling her, what you saw was what you got. Basically. I didn’t feel there was too much sort of fluff around it. I felt she was quite grounded and quite honest and you would get the good bits and the bad bits, and that’s what quite appealed to me. And she clearly had a very strong business focus and the best strong business ethic. And that appealed to me as well. My probably biggest obstacle was time before I’d started it, I did have to give a lot of consideration to what time I could devote to not really knowing at that point what time it would, how much time it would consume, but I did have to think about my family commitments, my current business commitments, and therefore that was, it didn’t stop me, but it was something I had to give consideration to and then look at my life, make my plan and think how will I fit this in?
But I’m a great believer that busy people achieve more than people that aren’t busy. If you’re a busy person and you want to do something, you’ll find the time to do it. I’ve always had that view. So other than that, I don’t think really had the backing of my family. They were quite happy with just to go and try something different. So yeah, time was probably my biggest consideration through the K P I program. I had been doing more just testing the water with some low content books, looking at possible areas for books that I may consider. Probably doing that fairly, not slowly, but I was plotting my way through that. And I did have a plan and I did have some low content books up, but that gave me a sense of how to move through the process. And KX 10 came along. I saw that really as an opportunity to fast track something. I mean, I could see the potential, I could see the program for a K p, I understood the process, I understood the ultimate goal and the outcomes. But I think for KX 10 for me, gave me probably a fast track to go down that route. So prior to KX 10, I had been doing some research. I had gone through all the training modules and a couple of low content books up there. But then since joining KX 10, obviously it’s allowed me to accelerate that sort of plan and that path published about two weeks ago. So I have published my first ebook and the paperback book I will launch next week. And then the audio book I’ll launch just after that. I have my second book completed. It is just going through the final stages of audio as well. So again, I plan to launch that within, pretty much in tandem with launching this sort of second part, the first book. So two books fully written.
I’m going through the publishing process as we speak right now. And then I’ve got a children’s series that is about four books written, one illustrated and just about ready to go. And the other two, another two of the books being illustrated as we speak. And I currently got two outlines underway for another set of books, if I’m honest. It is been hard. I didn’t think it wouldn’t be hard work, but I probably underestimated just how much work there was involved in. And that was more because I think from my point of view, I was learning an entirely different business. I mean, business principles can carry from one business to the other, but the actual process of this business was entirely different to anything I ever previously done another life. So I felt as if I was going back to scratch and really having to go back to days of studying hard learning and then translating that learning into some actions and some plans that took more time.
And maybe the way I came at it, I was documenting things as I went. I was being very diligent about how I did it. So possibly maybe others wouldn’t take as long to learn it as I maybe did. So I put a lot of time and effort into learning it. But I have to say the support from the coaches was there every step of the way for that learning. There was always someone at the end of an email if there was a blip, a sort of question that needed to be answered. So yeah, just the amount of learning that you have to do. But I think if you want to be successful, you have to put that commitment in, have to, I think just to believe in yourself and believe in the process. I think very new, well for me was you do hit periods of self-doubt, but I think it’s just to stick with it and not procrastinate. Just make an action, keep making those actions because it’s too easy to get caught in the spiral of research, research, research. And actually you need to come out of that and just start to take some action and just kept believing in yourself that you can do it because there’s outcomes at the end of it. But I would have, well, two books completely finished our children’s series underway and another two outlines ready.
there. But then since joining KX 10, obviously it’s allowed me to accelerate that sort of plan and that path published about two weeks ago. So I have published my first ebook and the paperback book I will launch next week. And then the audio book I’ll launch just after that. I have my second book completed. It is just going through the final stages of audio as well. So again, I plan to launch that within, pretty much in tandem with launching this sort of second part, the first book. So two books fully written.
I’m going through the publishing process as we speak right now. And then I’ve got a children’s series that is about four books written, one illustrated and just about ready to go. And the other two, another two of the books being illustrated as we speak. And I currently got two outlines underway for another set of books, if I’m honest. It is been hard. I didn’t think it wouldn’t be hard work, but I probably underestimated just how much work there was involved in. And that was more because I think from my point of view, I was learning an entirely different business. I mean, business principles can carry from one business to the other, but the actual process of this business was entirely different to anything I ever previously done another life. So I felt as if I was going back to scratch and really having to go back to days of studying hard learning and then translating that learning into some actions and some plans that took more time.
And maybe the way I came at it, I was documenting things as I went. I was being very diligent about how I did it. So possibly maybe others wouldn’t take as long to learn it as I maybe did. So I put a lot of time and effort into learning it. But I have to say the support from the coaches was there every step of the way for that learning. There was always someone at the end of an email if there was a blip, a sort of question that needed to be answered. So yeah, just the amount of learning that you have to do. But I think if you want to be successful, you have to put that commitment in, have to, I think just to believe in yourself and believe in the process. I think very new, well for me was you do hit periods of self-doubt, but I think it’s just to stick with it and not procrastinate. Just make an action, keep making those actions because it’s too easy to get caught in the spiral of research, research, research. And actually you need to come out of that and just start to take some action and just kept believing in yourself that you can do it because there’s outcomes at the end of it. But I would have, well, two books completely finished our children’s series underway and another two outlines ready.
I wouldn’t have believed it myself. So yeah, it does happen. I think the team are amazing. I think the coaches have been absolutely fantastic from day one. I think the knowledge they have across different fields within the whole publishing sector, the willingness to share and help you learn was what I found quite amazing. They were just always there on hand to help support. And the group I was in, we were all at various stages of learning, I think in various age groups and various abilities without a shadow, a doubt. But there was never ever a sense in our small group that anyone was left behind. It was a very, very strong group and they made everyone, they made us work together as a team, which was nice. And otherwise, we have a great support network for each other. And we set up our own, we sort of off the side accountability group.
So when you’re away from the coaches, we’ve got a small team that we keep in touch with and we support each other. And again, we’re all at various stages of that publishing process. So where someone maybe hits, maybe not a barrier, but something, we share it with each other and we share the successes and we share the, maybe don’t do it this way because you learn as you go. So I think the support from the coaches has just been amazing. Their knowledge and their support and their willingness to help you and share that along the way. I think I would say to someone, don’t underestimate the hard work you will need to put in, but if you’re very serious, and it’s a big financial investment, so you’re investing in yourself and you’re investing in your own future and your own training. So if you’re prepared to make that financial commitment, you have to be prepared to back it up with hard work because it will take hard work to push you through to the point where you have something tangible that you can then publish.
Well, I’ve just literally gone through my, I’ve just finished my free, I did a free three day promotion, and I think I’ve had two actual sales off the back of that, but I haven’t done any other promotion yet. So I’m about to start to put a lot of the free book onto free books. I’ve got a lot of Facebook groups I’ve contacted. I’ve had one group, one society’s come back and say, they made you a feature on my book, which is nice. I’m waiting for that confirmation, so I’m going to start. The hard work, in my opinion, actually starts now. Now that it is there, the hard bit is the marketing, the hard bit, the push and the constant drive. So that’s the bit I’m about to start. So not really any tangible revenue there yet, but I think it doesn’t come without, again, pushing that and working hard to get the book out there.
I think you do have to put a plan in place. And I think having launched the first book, I think when I do the second one, I think sometimes you’ll learn through experience. I would do things a wee bit differently and I’ll have a slightly different plan in place for the second one, and again, through the third one, I might do differently again. And until you do that, you can’t compare and decide what routes best. I think when I started the course, yeah, I suppose I didn’t really know what I had ahead of me. I had a plan in my head that I want a sense of freedom. I sort of a two, three year plan that I wanted to freedom, so then I started working hard. I wouldn’t have thought that within the period I had, I would now be at a point where I’ve got books published, which is a lovely feeling.
It is quite a very satisfying feeling that you actually have taken something from an idea, and it was an idea, done all the research done, the checking that it’s potentially a viable idea, right through the whole process, actually having something tangible, a book written, it’s quite a sense of achievement. You feel very proud of this book that you’ve created. And I think whilst I haven’t really started selling it, I’ve only just launched and it’s still on, its free or it’s just in its free days. I think what it has given me a sense now whether this first book will make me lots of dollars, I don’t know. But what I think it has shown me is that the potential is there, and I can see that roadmap for my future. Now I can see that a more definite road that yes, if I keep working hard at this and put all the rights strategies in place that we’re being taught and just keep repeating that, and then looking for the right niches and doing the right research and just continuing down this road, I think I know that that plan for the future for me will be something that I can realize.
I just think I looked at many courses, one, and I dipped in and out, various free seminars that then look at other courses, and whilst else I haven’t looked at them all, and I’m sure there’s many out there. I just think my sense of Sophie and the team as they’re real people, they are selling you something that’s real. They’re selling you something that they’re doing, and that’s how they make their livelihood. It’s how they make their business, and they share the good and the bad, which is very, very important. If they’ve gone through some pitfalls, they share that with you so you don’t make the same mistakes. So I think it’s just that sense of sharing and family and that you’re part of a team that makes it, for me, very worthwhile and quite special.