Elson Auquel’s Journey to Breaking Inertia
In the year 2010, an earthquake hit Haiti and all our lives changed forever. My name is Elson Auquel and here’s my story.
I graduated high school in 2013 but couldn't start college at the time due to unfavorable financial situations. I wanted to study Economic Science, but school was quite expensive in Haiti. I refused to be idle, so I started to volunteer. While volunteering, I dreamed. I dreamed of a life where every child from Haiti could be whoever they want to be.
First, I volunteered with Hands of Light and Action to help people from remote villages who had suffered from the 2010 Earthquakes. This saw me traveling distances of up to 40 minutes to an hour regularly to reach some of the earthquake-affected areas. I also volunteered with a few other organizations including the Caribbean Youth Environment Network in 2014, Florida A&M University Farmer to Farmer USAID Program (2015) and WhyFarm (We Help Youth Farm) in 2016.
I volunteer presently in a mission where I am helping teenagers find their purpose and passion in order to create a bright future for themselves and to make the world a better place to live. Volunteering has always been a huge part of my story. I believe that we all have a responsibility to bring compassion to a broken world.
I have had my fair share of failures and this has helped me to develop a more balanced view of work and enterprise growth. I failed at scaling 4 start-ups for which I was passionate but probably less informed and now better positioned to pursue. I have had the time to think deeply about what strengths I got from these experiences.
My failures led to a period of strong introspection and self-discovery. I discovered and started to build more on new skills and strengths that I discovered. I've had a reasonably demonstrated history of success in the marketing and advertising industry. Working in this industry exposed me to learning opportunities that helped me hone my skills in Customer Service, Public Speaking, Social Media Advertising, and Graphic Design. I also became a stronger business development professional through an associate degree in Agricultural Engineering, at the Universite Caraibe.
I am a storyteller, outbox thinker, and a change maker who believes anyone can accomplish whatever they want if they are willing to learn. With all this in mind, I have embarked on this book journey to "Breaking Inertia".
About Breaking Inertia
Breaking Inertia: Helping Millennial keep their head Over and above the floods
"Breaking Inertia" is an open call to help save a generation that's in a hurry to succeed. How can anyone find success and happiness in a fast-paced digital generation that is stuck on instant gratification? This is a question that Breaking Inertia addresses through experiential, practical and story-driven narrative. My book seeks to enlighten, inspire and guide. You'd love reading the book and at the same time take away a lot of life-lessons that can be instantly applied to your life. My book focuses on the themes of success and happiness for the millennial youth. My book will publish in June 2020.
I have divided Breaking Inertia into 3 parts:
The first 8 Chapters - Helps to define the millennial's lifestyle and evolution into unhappiness. It answers the question, what has created this unhappy person? This dissatisfaction and discontent must be understood from the viewpoint of the millennial youth.
The second 8 Chapters - Focused on industry & work culture. We need to understand the interaction between work and the person. What contribution does the workplace make into the lifestyle of the millennial and what can be fixed about this? Is there something about job expectation and career choices that makes life unbearable?
Third 8 Chapters - Discusses the power of relationships and personality in shaping the millennial's reality. What would it take to build better, happier relationships and persons?
Introduction: Book Story
Breaking Inertia: Get Smarter Than The Trends
BREAKING INERTIA answers the question of how we can achieve success and happiness in a fast-paced digital generation that is stuck on instant gratification.
I grew up in Haiti where life was far from easy. This once beautiful Island was suddenly thrown into chaos and a lot of us had to live through challenges that so many millennials would be horrified to imagine. Growing up without my parents, I realized that life was not going to hand me any opportunities. However, I realized that I could take one step after another towards my dream life. Writing this book titled "Breaking Inertia" would be a great opportunity for me to provide answers to other millennial through my own experiences and those of key figures that have addressed the millennial questions of happiness and success.
Every young person around now is desperately asking questions that a lot of us find difficult to answer. Why am I not happy? Why is life so hard? Why can't I get what I want? Why am I stuck?
That young person is stuck on his phone waiting for notifications so they can be happy about their life and relationships that they don't have. They are waiting on the stock market, the e-commerce sales and other volatile industries in order to be successful. The millennial is told that unless he can make a million dollars instantly, then he is not yet successful.
This has created a work culture that relies a lot on instant results in order to evaluate performance. Instant gratification makes sure that addictions are easily formed. With these addictions come a constant urge to win, or to get results that have not been invested in for a long time. You can see how this leads to more and more depressed and unhappy young people.
Getting the millennial BREAKING INERTIA is a powerful vision that would transform a whole generation into stronger, healthier, happier people.
BREAKING INERTIA is about discovering how millennials can be helped to achieve success and happiness in a fast-paced digital generation that is stuck on instant gratification. By buying into this project, you are giving thousands of young people an opportunity to live happier lives that will counteract addictions, depression, mental health struggles, trauma, and anxiety
What you Give and What I Give
Breaking Inertia will be self-published on Amazon. This means that by funding my book, you
automatically receive your copies of the book either by shipping or at the physical launch. The
money raised will cover the following cost items:
1. Editing, and Publishing. This is the editor's cost of reading my manuscript and working to
improve it to its best form before publishing it.
2. Designs: The designs for the book include the cover designs, 3D mock-ups which will be
used for promotions and social media. Some of these have been done on credit and as
such will have to be paid off.
3. Layout design and interior. The interior aesthetics of the book will be done to aid ease of
reading.
4. The Copyediting for my book - to help polish the grammar and spelling prior to
publication.
5. Promotion and marketing: I would be having physical and online launches of the book
which you would automatically be invited to attend.
What You Give Me Through this Preselling?
1. The confidence to publish. My friends have listened to my stories and ideas and think that
BREAKING INERTIA would be a great read. However, preselling gives me more of a morale boost.
2. I would be able to publish my book without the red-tape of searching for agents and
publishers.
3. This approach gives me the freedom to market and promotes my book the way I want to.
4. I find the fulfillment in knowing that there's a ready audience to read my book before
publishing.
5. It's a perfect opportunity to share my journey as an author with a community that shares
similar values and visions as I do.
I am also giving you some exclusive rewards for pre-ordering my book now:
You will receive a personally signed copy of my book when I publish
• A personal, handwritten thank you note for pre-ordering my book or an email depending
on how your book is delivered.
• Your name will appear in a Special, Acknowledgements Section of my book (“with
Special Thanks to”)
• Beta access to the Introduction of my book and my entire manuscript, with the
opportunity to review it and give me early feedback. Your contribution might even be
featured as a special mention in the book.
• You'd also be part of the design and publishing process. Having a front-row seat means
that your contributions will be considered when picking the final design of my book or
suggestions from you could help improve these parts of my book.
• I will do a book seminar or webinar that you can join at a discount or for free. This would
make sure that you get an opportunity to learn about the writing process and understand
even more in-depth where my stories came from.
• Mentions in my press releases, social media handles and book site. During promotions,
I'd be honored to mention you as part of my support system for this project.
About the Author
My name is Elson Auquel. I was born in a small country side in Haiti and grew up in Port Au Prince. I was born in Haiti but relocated to the U.S.A after much deliberations. I currently live in Orlando FL where I work as a customer service advocate and entrepreneur. I have had enough formal education to leverage on for success in the various spaces I have worked.
I have seen first-hand that life demands much more than ease and comfort. I'd like to help my readers navigate some of their tough life experiences to the point of success. Thanks for taking time to read about my book project. It was one of the tough decisions I had to make because it came with a lot of uncertainties. Having grown up without my parents, I had learned to make a lot of tough calls quite early in life. I believed God had and still has a purpose for me which he is achieving through my move to the U.S.A. Breaking Inertia is one out of those plans that I believe he has begun to unfold.
As soon as I could apply myself to work, I had started to serve in various ways. I worked in the past with Wade Darius Former Democrat Congress Candidate for Orange County District 10. I managed their digital campaign and online presence. I also intern at the WATERING MINDS INC where I have provided the team with strategic consulting and serve in the fundraising. In January 2017, I founded Utula Consulting & Marketing to help people grow and scale profitable businesses. I helped people from several niches such as Roofing contractors, Realtors, Dentists, Chiropractors moving from traditional marketing and sales method to the inbound marketing system using Click funnels and Facebook Ads. I have worked for a while as Digital Marketer and E-commerce consultant, Account Manager, Fundraiser, and as Customer Relationship Manager.
In these past few years I discovered a lot of things about myself and the gifts God had given me. I believe that every human has a purpose and mine is to help millennial find true success and happiness in a world that has grown dangerously impatient.
If you'd like to connect with me, you can reach me in the following ways
EMAIL: auquelelson@gmail.com
FACEBOOK: Elson Auquel
INSTAGRAM: elson_stuck
PHONE: 407 308 4623
Risk & Opportunities
The biggest risk for a book publishing project like this is the final delivery to my backers like you. I'll be self-publishing with Amazon which reduces this risk significantly. The Amazon print-on-demand services provides delivery to most countries. However, there might be disparity in the time it takes for delivery to various locations. I also plan to engage the services of popular logistic and delivery company for distributing to locations not covered by Amazon shipping. I have included the average cost of shipping through these various options in the backing values. This guarantees that everyone who backs my book project would get their books delivered within 3-7 days after launch.
This book publishing and launch comes with a lot of learning opportunities which I would like to share with you. I will be recording every step of the process till completion so that I can share with intending authors who also back my project. The risks or challenges encountered will be documented to help others achieve the same or better results with less stress.
Other Ways to Help
It's possible that you are unable to make a financial contribution to Breaking Inertia. This doesn't mean that you cannot be a part of the book project. Here are a few ways you can help my campaign:
- Share the book image and social designs from my book page on your status, stories, and broadcast messages to your friends and families.
- Please Share my Pre-sale Campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn with your friends, family, and network. Use my hashtag #Breaking Inertia so that my marketing team can also reshare and repost. We can achieve more visibility for the book this way.
- Kindly share this Pre-Sale Campaign Page via Indiegogo at the top of the page.
- Also, you can ask others to join in on the campaign. I would really appreciate your support.
Thanks Again
Elson Auquel