Hi, Anne Corbin, your Mind Body Spirit Mentor. I'm here with this week's episode of the mind body spirit connection. You are a complex being composed of 3 parts, mind, body, and spirit. Just get those 3 parts working together in harmony Anne upscale your life. I'm here to show you how. Well, returning listeners might have noticed that there been a change in my introduction.
Originally, I introduced myself as the crossover coach, and I used that identity quite briefly, really, until I recognize that there could be connotations, which I had never intended. My launch date was January 10th. So on that day, I listened to the episodes, which I'd recorded over a period of weeks, towards the end of last year, and several things occurred.
Anne was that I needed to change my intro Because in the very first episode, I mentioned that there was a story attached to my name, the crossover coach, Anne that was how I'd introduce myself, and that the story behind the name could be a basis for a future podcast. So here goes. You might also have noticed that there is a link below to some books. Anne one of those books is the crossover coach.
So I'll tell you how I got into writing books shortly, but first, I want to finish the tale of the crossover coach. The title came about after the book was already written. And the manuscript was going through the long period of editing and formatting. I was talking with a branding expert who latched onto the fact that this new book was about to come off the press, so to speak. And he asked me what the title of my new book was. Energy Creatorship Anne Consciousness, I told him.
And he said rather scathingly that such a title would appeal to very few people, and I should seriously consider changing it. Well, although there was no actual rush to do this, I bought into the advice And one of his mantras is, don't waste time. Do it now. So together, we changed the title that day Anne I thought I was happy with it.
At the time, I was known as the Cambridge Life Corbin, because I had coaching clients to whom I was teaching personal development from an energy spirituality perspective, and that title was appropriate. I live in Cambridgeshire, and my original clients had been local. But since going online with lockdown, That was now less relevant, and he said, there are hundreds of life coaches you need to differentiate yourself. Tell me how you help your clients.
Well, I must have mentioned something about crossing over energy. Because he jumped on that, and he said, I know you're the crossover coach. So I changed my brand. And the title of the book. And I guess I made the decision to embrace it at the time I believe I was quite enthusiastic about it. It was only as the months passed that my reservations grew. It doesn't describe what I do.
And worse, to some people, it suggests crossing over from this life to the next which is definitely not something that I am involved with. And I suppose that all these reflections crystallized as I got involved with podcasting. I wanted the title of the podcast to be descriptive enough to give listeners a flavor of what they were likely to hear. And also, one of my reasons for developing a podcast was to introduce myself to future clients.
And I'm in the process of setting up a membership site with recordings of my personal development slash spirituality/energy trainings, and I'm going to be running workshops and masterminds So the mind body spirit mentor has become my new Anne. And I'm even thinking of bringing out a second edition of the book. So watch this space, as they say. Now Back to how I became an author. I had never had any aspirations to write a book.
Although a great many of my friends were doing so towards the end of 2019. And I thought, wow. Impressive And in particular, there was someone I knew who had published a book that was a compendium of advice, really, from volunteers in a mastermind group that he ran, and I wasn't part of that particular group, but I bought the book because I knew some of the authors. And I thought, what a ruse?
Put your name to a book, get people you know to do all the work, Anne then make money for yourself by getting their connections to buy a copy. Oh, and this is relevant to later on in the story. Digressing for the sake of it. So I attended the launch of that book, and I thought vaguely that I could easily have written a chapter if I'd have been in the right place at the right time, and that it wouldn't be a bad thing to be a published author having merely penned one chapter in a whole book.
And chatting with others at the launch, as you do, I then learned that many had their own books in publication. This is talking both with the contributors and with other plane attendees like myself. So I think a sub conscious idea might have ceded itself just roundabout then.
And within the next 3 or 4 months, as I bumped into friends whilst networking, Remember when we used to do that face to face or when attending live courses or masterminds, also face to face, and we would chat over coffee, whatever. I learned that more than a few of them had written a book, or had one half written that they were sort of struggling to complete. And then a certain virus started killing people in China. And within months, the whole world was in lockdown.
Remember lockdown was supposed to last just for a couple of weeks. No one knew what was going on, and I actually used to watch those 4 pm, or were they 5 pm, TV, broad casts with the 3 muppets or the 3 stooges. There was the PM and 1 or more doctors. They became personalities, Anne they were talking about the science, and everybody respected them and thought they knew what they were talking about.
I think we know better now, and gradually We settled into this new strange routine of not caring how we looked, what we wore, what color our hair was, men grew beards. And people's waist grew bigger. I digress again. Well, it was pretty early on that I came across a webinar by a fellow who published books and who had an online training course. He said, a book was the ultimate business card.
It enhanced your credibility It was something to talk about when networking, something to give away to prospective clients. In short, everybody ought to have one. Well, he made the whole thing sound so manageable that I thought, I'm gonna do this. I'm going to write a book and have something to show for all these months of lockdown. So now all I needed to settle on was a subject. And because I'm in the property business, Anne everyone was wondering how things would progress in the future.
I picked on that because it was a topical slant on something which would be helpful when life got back to normal. This was spring 2020, and we're still nowhere near normal. Of course, as I was writing, all the personal development training that I've done over the years Anne during the course of property training as well, naturally that had particular relevance to how to survive in the property business? Well, the writing just flowed onto the paper.
Anne, you know, I truly enjoyed writing that first book. Anne then I learned how long it can take to get the thing edited and formatted I had to reread it as in proofreading. I had to do that over and over again so often. I almost knew the thing off by heart, but at last, the job was Anne, and I was a published author. And then We were back in lockdown. Only they didn't call it lockdown at the end of 2020, at least not in the UK.
We had the tear system, but nearly everything was closed again, and we were wearing masks this time We were giving each other a wide birth in the supermarkets, skulking around as though catching something was actually a possibility. Anne we were all hoping Christmas wouldn't be Anne. And in the event, it was about 48 hours before the day itself. Imagine all those turkeys and Christmas festivity, food, and stuff that went to waste it was criminal.
Not to mention the unfortunate hospitality industries that took such a battering. Now, early in that December, I got the opportunity to contribute a chapter to one of those anthology type books where my co authors would be Bob Proctor, Raymond Darren, Marcy Shymoff, and Brian Tracy. So between Christmas Anne New Year, I wrote my chat which was called. Everything is energy. And the subheading was how to raise your vibration and enter the new paradigm because that was the training.
You're supposed to have a heading and a subheading. So my chapter was accepted. I was delighted with that, really looking forward to publication, and they changed just one thing. Which happened to be the title. They preferred the longer version to the shorter one, which was everything is energy. So chapter 1 in my book, the authorities, is now how to raise your vibration and enter the new paradigm. And by this time, I was up and running with my next magnum opus.
I got the inspiration from the chapter, so my new challenge was going to be a full book on the subject of energy. And as I was compiling that book, I didn't have a title for it. But I followed the advice. I sketched out the structure. I worked out what my chapters were going to be Anne what the subheadings for chapters were going to be all the while thinking, what am I going to call this book? I did not ever intend to call it, everything is energy. That was just for the chapter.
And as I was writing it, guess what? We were well into another lockdown starting in the Anne, and there's nothing like having a project or a challenge even to get through a lockdown. Actually, on that comment of finding a way to pass the time, I am astonished how quickly the last 2 years have Anne, It's amazing how time can pass so fast when you're not really doing anything.
Well, it depends what you mean by not really doing anything, but not getting up and dressed every work and, every day for work and going places Anne, sort of showing up as your, Outside persona, I'm so sick of skulking around at home and not joining in things the way we used to. Anne I read somewhere recently that time really is speeding up. I don't know how they Anne to come up with declarations like that. I mean, scientists keep telling us that the universe is expanding all the time.
And along with it, consciousness is expanding as well. I do agree that consciousness is expanding. There is no question that a lot more people are becoming more aware more aware of what it's all about, Anne. People are asking questions, and that's really good. It's one of my favorite quotes that the quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions that you ask. So I'm just about out of time now for this week's episode.
I hope you found my little tale about becoming a writer or an author. Entertaining. And please don't forget to rate and or review if you did. Just scroll down to the bottom Anne you will find the relevant places to add your stars or I don't think they make it very obvious how to leave a review. I think you need to take a look at the reviews that are already there. Anne you press a very small invitation to do that.
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