People like us do things like this
- Do you know what the hardest part of writing a book is?
- SPARK | “How can I make more time in the day to write with my son?”
- Don’t have much conversation with your kids? Here you go.
- That partner of yours. Yeah, the kid. We still have roles to play. They’re important.
- Spark | Time Capsule: this is one of those moments I want to remember.
- Spark Campfire | Step out of your comfort zone to uncover your true message
- Everyone is born a genius
- Here’s what I’m giving my nieces for Christmas
- Embers
- Sparklers
- The 1/4″ drill bit, Bali, cocktails on the beach, love, pride, and Spark
- Is your goal to have fun or win an award?
- I recorded an 11-second video 4 years ago that’s the foundation of my next book.
- Don’t wait 12 years. Please.
- Fire
- It’s not only for you and your kids but your grandkids … and beyond.
- Is there anything possibly worse than not starting the project?
- Oops. That’s what I forgot: a story.
- The One Recipe Cookbook (and how to finish a project together with your kids)
- Best books for doing activities with your kids, creating family memories, and building relationships between parents and children
- Spark: It’s about creating something from nothing. Let’s create a subtitle, shall we?
- People like us do things like this
- Why Spark? Why me? Why you? Why now?
- What if I’d like to be one of the people like you who do things like that?
- Permission to … change my book title?
- Write a book with your kids? 43 elements for success. 42 are optional.
- It seems like backwards math, but by creating, we are actually “getting” more than we are “giving.”
- The Widow and the Orphan
- Spark Love: About that 1 mandatory element of the 43…
- Recipe for Love
- Kids need to crash their bikes to learn how to ride.
- Spark at “#1 New Release in Parent Participation in Education”
- Spark has hit #1 in Parenting in Free Books
- Spark Campfire
- When you document it, it becomes more real
- It takes as long as the time allotted
- I don’t want to navigate negativity.
- What’s the one little spark going to be that sets off the creativity in you (or your child)?
- Spark Campfire February 2019
- Find someone who believes he is alone and convince him that he is not.
- Well, wait a minute. That wasn’t so hard.
- Someone out there could use the help from the you of today
- I just got off the phone with my niece (and why that’s important).
- How to structure your non-fiction
- Spark Campfire | I wish I knew my nephew
- Spark Campfire | Why are you the person to write this book?
- Spark Campfire | Can we write a book and be less in front of a screen?
- Spark Campfire | How we define success
- Spark Campfire | So, you say you don’t have a book idea?
- Spark Campfire | Think about your audiobook before you thought you needed to
- Spark Campfire | Time Capsule
- Spark Campfire | Sweat Hut
- Spark | How do you answer the question, “What are you working on?”
- Spark: Ch. 3: Message in a Bottle
- The risk of remaining tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom
- Spark Campfire | Who can say what you want to say better than you can?
- Imagine yourself as a published author.
- Writing & Publishing: Why do we go to the gym? Wait, I don’t go to the gym. Exactly.
- Write Your Worst Book Ever
- This is what co-creating a book looks like
- Don’t do what you want to do but they want to do
- “Drama” audiobook is DONE!
- SPARK |Tell me your fears
- 7 Questions for Spark
- Spark Campfire | Did I mention we’re going to get it done?
- Spark | Thanks for your gift of sharing yourself through this book.
- “I get to be the fun mom.”
- “Our story has to be told.”
- SPARK authors Meg and Matthew Leal are #1 on Amazon!
- “Oh, next year will be better.”
Smallest Viable Audience
Listening to Seth Godin’s new book, “This is Marketing.” He was just talking about something that many could see as a negative but in his perspective is actually the answer to the question how do we belong, how do we find meaning, how do we do the things we do.
People like me do things like this.
I wrote a book with my kids.
I wanted to be prouder as my children. I wanted to be proud of myself. I wanted to be proud of something we did together. I wanted to be able to tell a story about something my kids and I did together but something more than going to the ballgame or riding our bikes through the woods. Something that meant something. Something that meant something to us. Something that might teach something to us possibly in the distant future although now it might not mean much at all. I’m willing to take that risk because I know the statistics of how I will feel about doing nothing presently and how I will feel about that in the future. That one is an easy one. That one is regret.
People like us do things like this.
People like me did anything like this.
People like me are doing.
People like me will do things like this.
People like us, people like me, people like you.
People like us want to have experiences with our kids. People like us want to tell stories about things we did together with our kids. People like us want to have memories to look back on about the things we did together with our kids.
What Seth Godin is saying sounds exclusionary or exclusive or excluding of certain people and that’s exactly his point.
Remember that this book is about marketing, this book is about connecting with other people and one of his main points is the smallest viable audience for smallest viable product and how if we focus on a niche market or a smaller market or a more defined and focused market, that is how we will reach the people we are intended to reach.
The goal is not to reach everyone because as we all know that’s the easiest way to reach no one. So in order to reach anyone we need to be focused on reaching someone.
Spark: How to write a book with your kids and why you should
With Spark, I’m not looking for the people who want to make excuses to not do it. I’m also not looking for the people who say they can’t or won’t or shouldn’t or don’t know how or don’t want to learn or don’t want to try or have yet another excuse that I can’t even think up at this time.
I believe that group is much, much larger then the group of people I am after.
The group of people I am after is the group like us. We’re the ones who make things happen. We’re the ones who make small changes in our own lives which then directly and indirectly affect the lives of those around us. We might not seek to change the world but part of this is because we are smart enough to know that to change the world you first need to change yourself and if you’re moving on beyond only yourself you know that smallest viable audience is your most efficient an effective group to associate with and work together with and to make change happen.
People like us do things like this.
If you don’t have the time or maybe you don’t have the willpower or you just don’t feel like it then I understand completely. But then I’m sorry to say that you are not us.
I don’t want to pester you and wish you joined us.
I don’t want to bother you and plead with you to please do this thing or start that project.
I do want to pull you (and if you read any of my work, you’ll note the big difference between pull and push).
I want to offer you a helping hand to step up and possibly step into a level of your comfort zone that you know you will not regret.
People like us aren’t concerned about failure because to us there is no failure there is only learning and experience. From that learning and experience, we unite and we move forward and greater still we reach back and hold out our hand to pull up the next person who wants to come up and join us on the level we’ve just ascended to.
People like us to do things like this.
People like us do things like this [Photo by Phil Coffman on Unsplash]
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