Jim Murphy

You're more present, more gracious, more aware.

Yeah, that's right.

So the book came out in 2009 and I wrote the book because I wanted to read the best book ever on mental toughness.

I wanted to use that as a manual for my clients to use that I can give them and say, here's how you train your mind and your heart.

It worked great for that.

It wasn't a big seller, but it worked great for that.

And interestingly enough, I had on my phone, I recommend to all my clients that they have these reminders, silent reminders that come up, these affirmations every day throughout the day.

And one of mine was that I'm a New York Times bestselling author.

And it had been 15 years, 16 years.

And that hadn't happened.

So after a few years, I took it off.

The book was doing great for what I wrote it for as this manual and for other clients to get other clients.

So that was amazing.

But it wasn't a big seller.

And then so 2018, I got the rights from McGraw-Hill.

And then I spent two more years of part-time, maybe 20 hours a week, revising it.

So that came out in 2020.

The book, I thought it was going to be 15% different, but it turned out to be about 85% new stories and same concepts, but new stories.

Yeah, so I was in Dallas, Texas.

I was there to write, to do an Interactions retreat.