The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

#161 9 Year Identity Crisis?! - Tom Critchlow on being stuck, indecisiveness, going to wander, taking every 7th week off, strategically dropping the ball, hiring an editor, and fear of finishing his book

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Tom and Paul talk through Tom's challenges at this inflection point in his indie career, a book he's planning on shipping and how to think through indie consultant identity crises

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  • Tom's Site: https://tomcritchlow.com/
    Strategic Independent: Book Draft

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:49) - Guest introduction
  • (03:13) - Tom's problem ā€” indecisiveness
  • (07:27) - What does Tom think he should be doing?
  • (09:50) - Not working, go and wonder, owning time
  • (14:07) - 7th week off, shaking things up
  • (18:16) - Strategically dropping the ball
  • (23:20) - Should Tom hire an editor?
  • (25:14) - The fear of finishing the book
  • (33:59) - The last 10% are the hardest
  • (36:16) - Writing the introduction, injecting the book with a personal story
  • (40:36) - Preselling his book as a motivation?
  • (42:10) - How Paul was pushing Tom to write his book
  • (43:59) - Closing remarks


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