2 ways to care less about what other people think of you

Mondays are for mistakes!

Today’s mistake continues my failed Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for my book and the specific mistake was this: I didn’t promote it enough. 

I sent out some emails. I published some info to my Facebook and Twitter pages.

But then I shied away from it.  I didn’t promote it enough. 

I worried too much about what people would think about me and if they thought I was over-promoting.
Or too selfish.
Or too self-centered.
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So I stayed in the back and didn’t promote as much as I could. 

There's two 'mantras' slowly helping me get over this fear of self-promotion and maybe they can help you too:

1. If you’re not willing to promote yourself, why would others want to promote you?
2. Most folks are busy thinking about themselves to be worried about what they think about you

I can't take credit for those two ideas, but they've helped me with fear.   They are what I learned from a failed Kickstarter campaign.  And I am becoming less concerned with what people think about me and more concerned with the work and what I am trying to do with helping schools.