Last week, I had my first radio interview. It was nerve wracking and I was plagued by fear leading up to it, but from all accounts, I did well, and I've seen benefits from it already. My website views are up, and so are my Facebook page views. Things are starting to take off, but they never would have, had it not been for my willingness to do something that was hard.
Growth only comes when he do something hard, when we stretch ourselves out side our comfort zone. I am shy, so for me, it is extremely hard, and extremely uncomfortable to talk to someone new. Yet, that was exactly what I had to do. I am a huge fan of Richard Paul Evan's Michael Vey series, and have had the opportunity to attend two of his book launches now that we live in Utah. Well, September was the book launch for Michael Vey 6, The Fall of Hades (great book by the way) and Evans had a local radio station there to introduce him. Frankie and Jess are funny, and were perfect for the show. As we were watching the book launch, my mom leaned over to me and told me I should talk to them. For anyone who knows me, I might be able to talk to customers I am working with, and appear to be bubbly and an outgoing person, but ask me to talk to someone to ask them to help me promote my book, forget it. I hate imposing on people for my gain. Instead, I went to talk to Dan Farr from Salt Lake Comic Con, since I had already sent a message to him and felt a little less awkward about it. Meanwhile, my mother, the intelligent person she is, went and talked to Frankie and Jess, telling them who I was and asked them if they ever had authors on their program. Then she called me over, and introduced them to me.
My mom had done the hard thing for me.
But the interview was all me. There was no mom sitting there, giving me the answers. I had to drive out to their studio. I had to find the door they wanted me to use. I had to figure out how to use the call box (it took me about 5 minutes by the way).
And I can't tell you how good it feels to know that I did it. Number one, I can drive long distances on the freeway and not get lost. Second, I didn't completely stumble and fumble my words making a complete fool of myself, which should give me confidence in my subsequent interviews.
I have grown, and hopefully that means that I will come a little further out of my shell.
Until then, I encourage each of you to do what you can to do hard things and grow because of it.
Aly Kay Tibbitts
My mom had done the hard thing for me.
But the interview was all me. There was no mom sitting there, giving me the answers. I had to drive out to their studio. I had to find the door they wanted me to use. I had to figure out how to use the call box (it took me about 5 minutes by the way).
And I can't tell you how good it feels to know that I did it. Number one, I can drive long distances on the freeway and not get lost. Second, I didn't completely stumble and fumble my words making a complete fool of myself, which should give me confidence in my subsequent interviews.
I have grown, and hopefully that means that I will come a little further out of my shell.
Until then, I encourage each of you to do what you can to do hard things and grow because of it.
Aly Kay Tibbitts