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By pre-ordering during my presale campaign, you’ll be the first to receive my book, as well as some great perks as a member of my virtual Launch Team.

  • Exclusive membership in my Author Community
  • Additional bonus materials, such as workbooks and audio messages

eBook, paperback, and hardcover editions will be published in Summer 2026.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States (US)

Shift Your Pace

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Presale Campaign for Shift Your Pace™

My name is Candace P. Roberts and I am the author of Shift Your Pace™. I wrote this book for people who have been running at a pace their life cannot support anymore. People doing everything “right” and still ending the day drained, scattered, and wondering why they cannot catch up.

For years I was that person. I kept taking on more because I could. My calendar was full. My output was high. My body was exhausted. I was praised for keeping up while ignoring the truth that I was burning out.

Shift Your Pace™ began with honest reflection. What if the problem is not your discipline? What if the problem is your pace?

Your preorder helps bring this book into the world and puts the first tools in your hands now, not a year from now.


About My Book

Shift Your Pace™ is for people who have outgrown the speed they are living at.

Most of us try to fix burnout by trying harder. We reorganize. We optimize. We cut sleep before we cut expectations. These are survival tactics, not solutions.

This book names the real issue. Your pace is working against you.

Shift Your Pace™ helps you see where your time, energy, and attention are leaking. It shows you how your current pattern keeps pulling you back into the same loops no matter what system you try. Then it helps you design a new pace that fits your actual life instead of the life you wish you had.

This is not a productivity book. This is a wake up call for people who are tired of trading their health, clarity, and identity for a pace they never agreed to.


The Benefits of Preordering

Preordering gives you three things that matter:

  1. You get clarity now. Higher tiers include tools that show you your real pattern and exactly where your energy is going. You do not wait months to start changing it.
  2. You help bring the book to life. This project requires real production and editorial support. Your preorder directly funds that work.
  3. You join the early circle. Some tiers unlock access to live sessions and workshops that will not be offered again at these prices.

Your preorder is not a transaction. It is a decision to stop living at a pace that is costing you more than you admit.


What You Will Learn

Shift Your Pace™ will show you:

  • The pattern you default to under pressure
  • How that pattern shapes your time, your focus, and your energy
  • What your current pace is giving you and what it is quietly costing you
  • How to set goals that fit your real life
  • How to build a pace that does not leave you in a cycle of recovery and relapse

You will not get a perfect routine. You will get a way of living that you can actually sustain.


Who Is This Book For?

You will feel this book in your bones if any of this sounds familiar.

You are the person everyone counts on. You carry the mental load at work and at home. People hand you things because you always find a way to figure it out.

Your brain never fully powers down. You lie awake planning tomorrow because you did not have time to think today.

You keep saying life will settle after this season. It does not.

You have tried planners, systems, resets, and new habits. Nothing sticks because you return to the same pace that broke you in the first place.

You care about your work. You care about your people. You want to show up well without losing yourself in the process. You want a life that feels like yours again.

Shift Your Pace™ is for high capacity humans who are done pretending their current pace is sustainable.


About the Publishing Process

Manuscripts has assembled an editorial and production team to support this book through revisions, design, and launch. Your preorder helps fund that work and signals demand for this book. Final publication is planned for 2026, with updates shared along the way.

The cover and layout will be professionally designed, and the current images are early mockups.


Other Ways to Support Me

You can share this campaign with someone whose pace worries you. A short note and a link can reach someone who needs this more than you realize.

You can mention Shift Your Pace™ to a leader or HR partner who knows their people are burning out and wants something more honest than another resilience memo.

You can post about this presale on LinkedIn or wherever you spend time, with a sentence about why the topic matters to you. Your voice helps this book reach beyond my own network.

Every share helps the book find the people living in survival mode.


Perks and Packages

The Clarity Bundle – $75

For readers who want clarity and momentum without waiting for the book release.

Includes:

  •  Paperback and eBook copy of Shift Your Pace™
  • “Where Am I Really?” Pace Profile Guide (diagnostic + archetype): a ten-minute assessment with scoring, plus a one-page breakdown of your Pace Archetype, what it costs you, and two practical places to begin
  • “Your First 7 Days of Shifting Your Pace” Starter Guide: a simple seven day plan with prompts, micro shifts, and morning and evening check ins to help you begin changing your pace right now
  • Exclusive early access to the first Thought Trails™ Workshop in 2026
  • Membership to my author community

The Momentum Bundle – $85

For readers who want deeper support, recognition, and early access to the community forming around Shift Your Pace™.

Includes:

  • Paperback and eBook copy of Shift Your Pace™
  • “Where Am I Really?” Pace Profile Guide (diagnostic + archetype)
  • “Your First 7 Days of Shifting Your Pace” Starter Guide
  • Printable Daily Pace Check-In Sheet
  • Short audio messages with guidance for your first week
  • Early invitation to the first Thought Trails™ workshop in 2026
  • Acknowledgements recognition in the book
  • Access to my private author community (low maintenance: 1 update per month)
  • Early access to a deeper Thought Trails™ session later in the year
  • Membership to my author community

Online Course or Live Webinar – $99

 For readers who want guidance and real time support.

Includes:

  • Everything in the Clarity Bundle
  • A 60-to-90 minute live session that walks through key ideas from the book and real world applications
  • Time for questions and answers
  • Replay access

Shift Your Pace™ Deep Dive Kit – $350

For readers ready for a structured reset they can complete on their own time.

Includes:

  • Everything in the Clarity Bundle
  • Pre-recorded Deep Dive workshop
  • Guided workbook
  • Pace Map template
  • Scripts and prompts for renegotiating pace with managers, partners, or teams

Virtual Staff Training – $1,100

For teams and organizations committed to sustainable performance. Up to ten attendees.

Includes:

  • Everything in the Clarity Bundle
  • One 90-minute virtual staff training 
  • Q&A
  • Follow-up resource
  • Up to 10 signed paperback copies of Shift Your Pace™ for the team

About the Author

Candace Roberts

Candace P. Roberts is Vice President of Data Strategy & Insights with more than twenty-five years of experience across teams, departments, and leadership levels. She has built a career in environments where expectations increase faster than capacity and has watched how often the human cost gets ignored.

She has led teams, served on teams, and rebuilt her own pace more than once. She has seen how high performers burn themselves out trying to meet every demand. She has also seen what becomes possible when people learn to work with their real capacity instead of against it.

Candace focuses on the intersection of clarity, pace, and human behavior. She helps individuals, teams, and leaders slow down enough to see what is actually happening, make cleaner decisions, and create systems they can sustain. Her work is not limited to data or AI. It is about how people navigate pressure, stretch themselves thin, and try to build a life they do not have to recover from.

She founded Thought Trails™ to give people practical tools for the messy middle between knowing something must change and figuring out how to make that change real. Shift Your Pace™ is her first book and captures the lessons, patterns, and practical insight shaped by twenty-five years of rea-world experience.

She lives in metro Atlanta, Georgia.

PRESALE PERKS AND PACKAGES

$75.00
Paperback and eBook copy of Shift Your Pace + Where Am I Really? Pace Profile Guide (diagnostic + archetype) + a ten-minute assessment with scoring, + a one-page breakdown of your Pace Archetype + Your First 7 Days of Shifting Your Pace Starter Guide + Exclusive early access to the first Thought Trails Workshop in 2026 + Membership to my author community
August, 2026
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$85.00
Signed paperback and eBook copy of Shift Your Pace + Where Am I Really? Pace Profile Guide (diagnostic + archetype) + Your First 7 Days of Shifting Your Pace Starter Guide + Printable Daily Pace Check-In Sheet Short audio messages with guidance for your first week + Early invitation to the first Thought Trails workshop in 2026 + Acknowledgements recognition in the book + Access to my private author community (low maintenance: 1 update per month) + Early access to a deeper Thought Trails session later in the year + Membership to my author community
August, 2026
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$99.00
A 60-90-minute live session that walks through key ideas from the book and real world applications + Time for questions and answers + Replay access + paperback and eBook copy of Shift Your Pace + Where Am I Really? Pace Profile Guide (diagnostic + archetype) + a ten-minute assessment with scoring, + a one-page breakdown of your Pace Archetype + Your First 7 Days of Shifting Your Pace Starter Guide + Exclusive early access to the first Thought Trails Workshop in 2026 + Membership to my author community
August, 2026
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$350.00
Pre-recorded Deep Dive workshop + Guided workbook +Pace Map template + Scripts and prompts for renegotiating pace with managers, partners, or teams + paperback and eBook copy of Shift Your Pace + Where Am I Really? Pace Profile Guide (diagnostic + archetype) + a ten-minute assessment with scoring, + a one-page breakdown of your Pace Archetype + Your First 7 Days of Shifting Your Pace Starter Guide + Exclusive early access to the first Thought Trails Workshop in 2026 + Membership to my author community
August, 2026
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$1,100.00
One 90-minute virtual staff training + Q&A + Follow-up resource + signed paperback copies of Shift Your Pace for the team + eBook copy of Shift Your Pace + Where Am I Really? Pace Profile Guide (diagnostic + archetype) + a ten-minute assessment with scoring, + a one-page breakdown of your Pace Archetype + Your First 7 Days of Shifting Your Pace Starter Guide + Exclusive early access to the first Thought Trails Workshop in 2026 + Membership to my author community
August, 2026
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