I have been working on adding all the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for my online book Fast Track Your Success and Happiness which I originally wrote when I was 22. Its funny reading back on it to be honest, because some of what I wrote makes me laugh now that I’m a little older, but there are some real pearls of wisdom in there too.
I like this technique I called Teach what you want to learn. It really is so true that when you teach a topic you will behave in a way that is in-line with your teaching.
When the book first came out in 2005 I was teaching the contents of the book to everyone I could talk to. I was having radio interviews, I was having newspaper interviews, I had a publicist organising media interviews with me and I was even finding myself being quoted in glossy magazines. I was feeling on top of the world, very happy and very confident!
Then I had a bit of a crisis. Essentially my plans for publishing and printing and marketing the books had been a little on the naive side and so I was losing money trying to sell them. I went back to work, started a new career and stopped teaching self improvement techniques to anyone because I felt embarrassed.
Well after I stopped sharing the knowledge, little niggling things started to creep into my thinking. A few doubts about my abilities perhaps, or a negative way of looking at things, perhaps feeling less grateful or not using the techniques for feeling happier when getting bounced around in life’s little hurdles and setbacks. Perhaps I started acting a little more reactively instead of proactively. Well only four years after I had published the book I was feeling depressed again.
Does that mean the book was a failure, that the techniques didn’t work? No, not at all. It was because I stopped living that way, essentially because I stopped teaching and therefore had no external stimulus to keep applying the material for myself.
Now after a period of depression and anxiety in the last year, which started when baby Sebastian arrived three months too early, I am ready and determined to move forward again and regain all the confidence and happiness that I temporarily lost during that period of time. This time I plan to teach what I learn – as I learn new things I will write about them in this blog. It will keep me honest and push me to new levels in my thoughts and in the improvement of my character.
Do you feel the same about teaching? Have you ever taught a subject that you were really passionate about, and then found that you were making new breakthroughs in your personal abilities as a result?
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