Mindset Mastery

They don’t call it a “head game” for nothing…

How do you run the race? Do you start strong and fizzle out from there? Are you a strong finisher? Or are you someone who has a bunch of half-started/half-finished projects lying around?

I’m asking because writing a book is a lot like running a marathon…only with your brain.

In fact, I would chaulk up 50% of the effort that goes into writing a book, especially for new authors, to be about mastering the mind…

The self-doubt (“I’m not a good enough writer”)

The fear of rejection (particularly you memoir writers/life story tellers out there)

The scarcity (“I don’t have the time/money to invest in writing a book”)

Writing a book, I feel, takes more mental endurance than anything else—more than writing skill, proficiency with language, professional expertise, etc.

One of the ways I make writing a book manageable for my clients is breaking down the writing into regular, small increments. (“You mean, all I have to do is write 500 words/one hour a day? Five times a week? I can do that!”)

I tackle the easy/fun stuff first. (Hence writing the beginning, middle and end—or any of your favourite scenes/chapters—early on, if not first.)

So that I’ve got major momentum by the time I hit my first wall—which is much smaller now that I’ve already clocked in 25K-plus words and written the beginning, middle and end of my book. At this point, I’m so invested in my book I CAN’T NOT write it.

You feel me?