Tim Grahl

Author of Running Down a Dream and Your First 1000 Copies. Host of the Story Grid podcast. Founder of booklaunch.com.

Tim Grahl is the author of “Running Down a Dream” and “Your First 1000 Copies“. For over a decade he has worked with top authors and creatives including Daniel H. Pink, Barbara Corcoran, Hugh MacLeod, Hugh Howey, Chip and Dan Heath, and many more. He has run the campaigns to launch dozens of bestselling books and built and sold two companies.

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Running Down a Dream

by Tim Grahl

Tim Grahl is one of the world’s leading book-launch marketing gurus. To put it in perspective: At one point, his clients held FIVE spots on the New York Times bestseller lists. (To be clear: That’s REALLY (!!) hard to do. Like, almost impossible.) But get this: That week when he achieved the pinnacle of success? He was miserable. And this book is his inspiring, super-vulnerable story of how he moved through many dark nights of the soul as he ran down his dream—to not only create a business and body of work that he’s proud of but, much more importantly, a LIFE of sustainable meaning and mojo and joy. Big Ideas we cover include: a practice to eliminate the nonessential, the fact that everyone is pretty much always (!) editing their lives, making it all one big experiment, scraping away the plaster to reveal your already-perfect Golden Buddha essence and the true joy of running down your dream!

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You are the golden Buddha. When you do things that are healthy and good, that is you. When you do things that are unhealthy and bad, that’s just the layers on top. It’s not you. Hold on to that. Trust yourself. You’ll find your way.

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Focusing on helping just one person helped me break through my fear of putting work out into the world. I realized that if I was waiting until I created something that would help everyone, I would never be able to do it. Instead, I just wanted to help one person.

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Another way of looking at a system is it allows you to make one decision today that removes a lot of future decisions, therefore saving that concentration and focus for something else later on.

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So what if I started doing the work for the work’s sake instead of doing the work to get something? What if my job wasn’t to toil for reward but to toil for the love of the toiling? This forced me to start reconsidering what my work was.

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I have since come to believe that the true definition of ‘procrastination’ is ‘assuming I will be less stupid and lazy tomorrow than I am today.

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When you stop doing the nonessential stuff, you realize that you’ve got a world of time on your hands. That time is yours to reconfigure to move you forward toward your aspiration. You will never truly understand how much time is yours until you strip away the nonessential.

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