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Top 10 tips are certainly commonplace in newsletters and blog posts today and I am more than happy to follow this trend. I love to be able to have a list of items that I use as a checklist to leverage my existing lifestyle choices and cultivate them into new and different habits and outcomes. […]

Knowing why you want to write a book gives you one of the best indicators of the pace you should set. Knowing when you want to release a published book will provide you with a framework for how you will need to set your schedule. Depending on how you like to work, that could be […]

Perhaps the better question is ‘why are you spending all this time thinking and reading about publishing a book?’ Understanding your ‘why’ will answer many of the questions first time (and long term) writers go through each time a book idea comes to mind. If you do not have any intention to publish your writing, […]

Why you may need to write fast: Set yourself a short deadline. Want it done and dusted so you can go on holidays. You were over this before you started. This is how you live your life, one speed – fast. What? You mean I can write slow? Why you may like to write slow: […]

This post is inspired by Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman whereby Kahneman hypothesises that our brains think in two Systems. System 1: fast and System 2: slow. While this is a high level generalisation of the book, it was these ideas that resonated highly with me. As I noted ‘inspired by’ in the […]

For me there are plenty of times that I feel unmotivated to do anything. To help create momentum I will make myself a five or seven point list of the things that I want to achieve in the day. As soon as I start to feel unmotivated I have a look at that list and […]

No, it is definitely not the end. It is a new beginning. This means you can start your New Year’s resolutions now. Start that New Year’s list by thinking about what products and collateral can you extract from your book. Then write out a list of potential products that can be leveraged from your book. […]

Many of you will be familiar with ‘fake it till you make it’ mantra (although I feel that is at that stage of being overused). Regardless, it does resonate well with getting in and getting things done, regardless of your mindset. Based on the theme of ‘faking it’, let us assume that you have written […]

One of the following seven tips may assist you with getting in touch with that inner wild beast that you need to channel to write your book: Have a conversation with yourself or a friend. Capture those unconscious musings that you have just before you go to sleep – have a Dictaphone beside your bed […]

You have thousands of brilliant ideas, and you are not sure how to make them a reality. For a start, choose only ONE brilliant idea to work on at a time. Otherwise, all your brilliant ideas will remain just that, ideas. In other words, get one idea finished before you move on to the next […]