Hey there, it's Jonathan with a Good Life Project Riff.

Today's Riff is going to be a little bit different, actually.

I want to take you behind the scenes with something I've been working on for a number

of years now.

And that is a book.

I've been secretly writing, okay, maybe not so secretly writing a book.

I keep sort of dropping hints left and right.

And Bernie of you out there who are authors or aspiring authors, it is quite a hero's

journey to write a book.

It's different than writing blog posts or essays or articles.

And profoundly different than interviewing people for podcasts or anything else to sit

down and actually go from a blank document to 60 something thousand words and then turn

it into a book.

It takes something completely different.

Sometimes you look at it and you're kind of like, wow, this is completely irrational and

unjustifiable.

But then once you get into it and hopefully you get to a point where you stand back and

you're like, you know what, this matters and this is my words on the page.

It kind of makes it all worthwhile.

So this book has been quite the oddity.

It's actually not the book that I sold to my publisher.

I sold them one book and did a bunch of research and realized that that actually book would have

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