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Use Your Business Book as an Evergreen Marketing Tool with these 4 Tips
Employ these methods now to avoid ups and downs due to sickness or crisis If you have a business, then you’ve likely seen challenges. Lack of clients, loss of staff, illness and more changed the landscape of many businesses quarantine during the spring of 2020 quarantine, and it’s left many looking for outside the box ways to bring stability and work in new ways. The beautiful thing about having a book for your business is
Why Leaders Need to be Honest About their Story
The first book I wrote is in the fantasy genre, and the most fun thing about it was that I could make up everything! I created a world, characters, rules about magic, etc., and if I couldn’t figure out how something happened, magic was an all too convenient culprit. Obviously, the same isn’t true with fiction. Though it may look like other people rose to the top like magic, we know that it didn’t happen
Keep Your Writing Vibrant with This One Trick
We’ve all read books that were a serious drudgery to trudge through. Honestly, I think the fear of writing a book like that is what keeps many potential authors from ever publishing their book. They think that their book might secretly be awful (if this is you, please check out this post on how to take care of that problem), so they hide it on their hard drive. Worse yet, this fear can keep people
Staying Present During your Writing Sessions Keeps the Momentum Going
How often have you sat down at your computer to write and just stared at the screen? Yeah, me too. It doesn’t work, does it? But when you don’t know what to write, that often leads to staring, which often leads to playing on Facebook or checking your email, which leads to no writing getting done. If this keeps happening, it often compounds the problem, too. You get frustrated with yourself because you haven’t made
Transforming from Speaker to Author Could be as Simple as a Name Change
That’s all it takes, huh? I just change my name to Tony Robbins or Gabrielle Bernstein? Not exactly. Like many other things, there is a mindset shift required for you to actually reach success on that book. Remember back to when you had a dream of taking the stage, coaching, or otherwise developing your business. How hard was it to succeed if you thought of it as a hobby or a gig or your “little
Being Streamlined and Focused Helps you Reach the End of Your Book
Do you ever find yourself taking on too many tasks? None of them get finished (or finished well). In fact, most of the time, you end up regretting taking on some of them.This is a common problem for over-achievers, especially the people-pleasers among us. We don’t like to say “no.” We believe we can do all the things and be everywhere at once, and it just leads to displeasure, disconnect, and discontent.If you’ve said “yes”
Staying Adaptable Helps You Finish Your Business Book
In four years of book coaching, I’ve never had a client approach me with an idea that stayed exactly the same clear through the process. Whether I couldn’t give my blessing because something was off, life threw them some lemons, or something else, there have always been reasons to stay adaptable during the writing process. Why do I suggest staying adaptable? Because scrapping the whole thing sucks. No one wants to have their idea thrown
Turn “Waiting to be Inspired” to “Am Writing”
Waiting for Inspiration for your book? If you’re sitting around “waiting to be inspired” to work on your book, you might be waiting awhile. If you’re using this excuse for why you’re stuck on page one, it’s time to assess what’s really going on. Are you procrastinating? Are you afraid your book will suck? Do you think no one will read it? Are you using workload as an excuse? When we “wait for inspiration,” we
Inspiration is Nothing Without Substance
We all want to inspire people. We want to help them move to the next step of their life, their business, or whatever is challenging them. We want to see them soar. The thing is, we need to be more than just cheerleaders. It’s wonderful to tell someone, “You can do it! I believe in you!” but you can’t leave it at that. It’s also wonderful to tell your story and say, “I did it,
My Number One Tip for Saving Time Writing Your Book
It’s not hiring someone else to write it for you. It’s not talking the whole thing in one sitting and paying a fortune for an editor. The best thing you can do is hire a coach BEFORE you start writing. When I worked on my first book, Martina Mackenzie: The Diana’s Eye, I sat down one night and wrote the first three chapters without a plan. I needed to write. I usually laugh about people
Use Your Business Book as an Evergreen Marketing Tool with these 4 Tips
Employ these methods now to avoid ups and downs due to sickness or crisis If you have a business, then you’ve likely seen challenges. Lack of clients, loss of staff, illness and more changed the landscape of many businesses quarantine during the spring of 2020 quarantine, and it’s left many looking for outside the box ways to bring stability and work in new ways. The beautiful thing about having a book for your business is
Why Leaders Need to be Honest About their Story
The first book I wrote is in the fantasy genre, and the most fun thing about it was that I could make up everything! I created a world, characters, rules about magic, etc., and if I couldn’t figure out how something happened, magic was an all too convenient culprit. Obviously, the same isn’t true with fiction. Though it may look like other people rose to the top like magic, we know that it didn’t happen
Keep Your Writing Vibrant with This One Trick
We’ve all read books that were a serious drudgery to trudge through. Honestly, I think the fear of writing a book like that is what keeps many potential authors from ever publishing their book. They think that their book might secretly be awful (if this is you, please check out this post on how to take care of that problem), so they hide it on their hard drive. Worse yet, this fear can keep people
Staying Present During your Writing Sessions Keeps the Momentum Going
How often have you sat down at your computer to write and just stared at the screen? Yeah, me too. It doesn’t work, does it? But when you don’t know what to write, that often leads to staring, which often leads to playing on Facebook or checking your email, which leads to no writing getting done. If this keeps happening, it often compounds the problem, too. You get frustrated with yourself because you haven’t made
Transforming from Speaker to Author Could be as Simple as a Name Change
That’s all it takes, huh? I just change my name to Tony Robbins or Gabrielle Bernstein? Not exactly. Like many other things, there is a mindset shift required for you to actually reach success on that book. Remember back to when you had a dream of taking the stage, coaching, or otherwise developing your business. How hard was it to succeed if you thought of it as a hobby or a gig or your “little
Being Streamlined and Focused Helps you Reach the End of Your Book
Do you ever find yourself taking on too many tasks? None of them get finished (or finished well). In fact, most of the time, you end up regretting taking on some of them.This is a common problem for over-achievers, especially the people-pleasers among us. We don’t like to say “no.” We believe we can do all the things and be everywhere at once, and it just leads to displeasure, disconnect, and discontent.If you’ve said “yes”
Staying Adaptable Helps You Finish Your Business Book
In four years of book coaching, I’ve never had a client approach me with an idea that stayed exactly the same clear through the process. Whether I couldn’t give my blessing because something was off, life threw them some lemons, or something else, there have always been reasons to stay adaptable during the writing process. Why do I suggest staying adaptable? Because scrapping the whole thing sucks. No one wants to have their idea thrown
Turn “Waiting to be Inspired” to “Am Writing”
Waiting for Inspiration for your book? If you’re sitting around “waiting to be inspired” to work on your book, you might be waiting awhile. If you’re using this excuse for why you’re stuck on page one, it’s time to assess what’s really going on. Are you procrastinating? Are you afraid your book will suck? Do you think no one will read it? Are you using workload as an excuse? When we “wait for inspiration,” we
Inspiration is Nothing Without Substance
We all want to inspire people. We want to help them move to the next step of their life, their business, or whatever is challenging them. We want to see them soar. The thing is, we need to be more than just cheerleaders. It’s wonderful to tell someone, “You can do it! I believe in you!” but you can’t leave it at that. It’s also wonderful to tell your story and say, “I did it,
My Number One Tip for Saving Time Writing Your Book
It’s not hiring someone else to write it for you. It’s not talking the whole thing in one sitting and paying a fortune for an editor. The best thing you can do is hire a coach BEFORE you start writing. When I worked on my first book, Martina Mackenzie: The Diana’s Eye, I sat down one night and wrote the first three chapters without a plan. I needed to write. I usually laugh about people