hey this is stefan from
projectlifemastery.com and in this video
i want to talk to you about how to write
a book because i get this question a lot
now I've written a few of my own books
I'm also a blogger and a writer at
project life master comm and I've also
helped a lot of writers and authors to
be able to write their books publish
them and do very very well with it and
somebody out come with this video is
able to help you get started to write
your own book but not just get started
but to also finish it because that's the
ultimate goal the ultimate goal is for
you to complete your book so that you
can publish it you can get it out there
you can start making money from it you
can have an impact and you can have your
message be heard you don't want your
message to diet your lips and
unfortunately I see that happen time and
aspiring authors out there so I want to
make sure that that doesn't happen to
you I see a lot of authors they get
started on writing the book and sure
enough they don't finish it
they make writing a book to be this
ginormous task in their mind and they
procrastinate they're a perfectionist
and it never gets done so I'm going to
share some tips and strategies with you
in this video that can help you to
actually write your book and actually
finish it now I think one of the biggest
hurdles that a lot of authors and
writers have is that they make writing a
book to be this big task it's just this
ginormous thing in their head
that's just so overwhelming for them
that they don't even know how to get
started with it you know it's almost
like this mountain that they have to
climb and it's unachievable it's
unattainable and any time you look at
anything in that big of a perspective
that big of a way then the chances of
you actually doing it getting started
and actually finishing it are slim to
none so I want to invite you to look at
things in a bit of a different way to
have a different perspective a different
mindset on this because from my
experience 80% of success is psychology
and only 20% are the mechanics I heard
that from Tony Robbins and when you
change the way that you look at things
the things that you look at change so I
want to invite you to look at it in a
different way I want to invite you to
take this big task of reading a book and
instead chunking it down into smaller
more achievable pieces because when you
look at a book
all a book really is is a series of
chapters and when you start to look at
it that way it's just a series of
chapters and all of a sudden becomes a
lot more achievable doesn't it it
becomes a lot easier for your mind to
wrap your head around and to get started
on it you know writing a chapter is a
lot easier than writing a book and you
know one thing that has really helped me
because I do a lot of blogging and
writing is I look at a chapter as just a
blog post an article and when I look at
it that way you know maybe a blog post
for me it might be a couple hundred
words for a couple thousand words when I
look at it that way I think hey you know
what I blog all the time I can write an
article I can write a blog post that's
not that hard and that could be a
chapter and so that's just another
perspective another way of looking at
this big thing and making a smaller if
you were to chunk it down even further
though you can look at a chapter as just
a series of paragraphs you know how hard
is it to write a paragraph you know that
all of a sudden it becomes a lot easier
for you to actually stomach and actually
get yourself to do a series of
paragraphs is just a series of sentences
and a series of sentences is just a
bunch of words and a bunch of words or
just a bunch of letters and so when you
break it down into smaller bite-sized
steps it becomes a lot easier for you to
actually do this and I think that's a
very important thing now a lot of
authors and writers they also
procrastinate and I think that's most of
the process most of the delay that a lot
of authors have and actually completing
their book you know they have this goal
of writing a book maybe you get started
you write a little bit of it but you
procrastinate to finish it because again
you're making it so big another strategy
that's really helped me to get myself to
take action and do it is beginning to
link pain to not doing it so first let's
look at what what procrastination is
procrastination is when you know you
should do something but you don't do it
and the reason that you don't do it is
because you link and associate pain to
doing it you know maybe in your mind you
make it too big too overwhelming too
much work too much effort too much time
that's all pain you when the more you
link pain is something the chances of
you doing it are very slim and not
because human beings will do almost
anything to avoid pain
you know we don't like pain it's not
until you know if you have a project
that's due or this book that's do you
always get it done in the last minute
because all of a sudden the pain of not
doing it far exceeds the pain of
actually doing it and so that's when it
kind of reverses itself procrastination
so what you need to do in order to get
yourself to you know be motivated and
overcome that procrastination and start
to link and associate pain to not doing
it to not completing the book and taking
action on it and so I have a few
questions for you that are designed to
help elicit some pain pain is a good
thing if you can use it and channel it
to take action you know we all
experience pain in their lives you know
it's not a bad thing the point here is
is to get yourself a little bit
disturbed a little bit unsatisfied so
that you get up leverage on yourself so
that you get that threshold to actually
do something and write the book so let
me ask you and I want you to be honest
why is it a must for you to write this
book why is it a must for you to write
this book why is it important for you to
write this book why is it important for
your potential readers your audience out
there to write this book what is it
going to cost you in your life if you
don't write this book if you don't get
your message out there if you're not
heard what does it already cost you in
your life was it going to cost you just
your overall happiness how you feel
about yourself how you feel about your
life your relationships with others your
pride your self-esteem what is it going
to cost you in the future it's going to
cost you in five years ten years from
now if you're still stuck in this
position that you are right now of
either not getting started or not even
finishing it what is that going to cost
you and again the more honest you can be
the better because you want to feel some
pain you want to get a little bit pissed
off you want to get a little bit
disturbed because that's creating
leverage on yourself the problem is most
people they don't have enough of reasons
to actually follow through to actually
take action you know 80% of success is
psychology but
the way of saying that is 80% is why to
do something and only 20% is the hell if
you have a strong enough why enough
reasons to do it and it'll you know it's
actually real for you then that will
pull you towards writing your book every
day and getting it done you know so
having those reasons having that
motivation and associating pain to not
doing it is what's going to allow you to
take action another question that I have
for you is what's going to be the
benefit in the gain of writing this book
what's the pleasure that you're going to
get from it as well how's this going to
change your life
how's this going to change other
people's lives if you can start to
associate pain to do our pain to not
doing it and pleasure to actually doing
it writing your book then that's what's
going to again pull you to do it so I
want you to be honest with those
questions and that's just kind of
another tip another strategy to help you
overcome that procrastination I'm not
going to talk too much more about that
but that's just a tip that has helped me
and it can work for anything in your
life not just writing a book okay now
another tip that I have for you and you
know I'm sure you've already experienced
this that holds a lot of people back is
they get writer's block they start
writing or they can't even get
themselves they start writing because
they're not in the right state and what
happens when you write I found that you
almost get you know when you're
successful at writing something you get
immersed in it and you get this flow
state you get into this state where
everything just kind of flows through
you and you get these insights these
ideas and it's almost effortless and
when you can get yourself in that state
when you're writing you have a lot of
power and you get momentum as well where
time disappears or five or ten hours
might go by and you're like oh my god
and written so much being able to access
that state on a consistent basis is your
power to be able to write your book and
there's a few strategies that I have to
get yourself into that state one thing
that I have I can't give them all to you
in this video but one thing is just
having a ritual before you write having
a ritual you know I have a morning
ritual that I'm passionate about you
know share this on my youtube channel
and everything as well but I have a
ritual before I coach someone before I
create a video before I
right and I put myself into a peak State
or whatever state that I need to be in
to be able to have the best impact
possible and there's a few things that
you can do to get yourself in that state
before you write you know one thing that
has worked for me is just going for a
walk engaging your body in some way
exercising maybe it's meditating doing
something to get yourself out of your
head so that you can eliminate all those
thoughts all those distractions that you
have in your head and you can free up
your mental RAM to be able to focus at
the task at hand and focus is very
important and also when you're writing
to you I'll mention that you don't want
to have any distractions you want to
eliminate your cell phone the you know
Facebook email other people that are
around you you want to be in a place
where you can focus and get that
momentum going you know studies show
that if you get into that peak state
into that flow state and then you get
interrupted you get knocked out of it it
takes at least 20 minutes for someone to
get to get back to that peak of that
state so that's why it's very important
to not be interrupted in any way so that
you can allow yourself to remain in that
flow state okay very very important
thing so being into that flow state is
very important having a ritual that you
do one thing that I also do as well is I
ask myself questions you know I ask
myself why is this important why is this
a must for me you know you know why is
why do I care about the person that's
going to read this
what's my outcome what's that what's the
difference what's the impact that I
really want to make and I just answered
out loud that's right answering it I get
excited I get into even better state and
you know sure enough it allows me to get
motivated and actually write a lot
better as well
so using your body using your focus
having a ritual being proactive before
you write not just being a reactive if
you just if you're staying there for
hours you can't get a sentence out then
you need to stop what you're doing you
need to go outside go for a walk you
need to change your state because when
you get into different state you can
come back and you could do that writing
effortlessly easily so changing your
state is very very important getting
into that flow state and learning your
triggers and how to get yourself there
another thing that can help you with
writer's block as well as something that
I heard from an author which is that you
want to write
the waste bin meaning that when you
write you want to almost write with the
intention that this is just going to go
into the trash and what that does is
that just kind of releases all that
pressure that you put on yourself
because you know if you're a
perfectionist and you're writing and you
know all that sentence wasn't good
enough you're going to rewrite it again
and again and again
that's inhibited inhibiting you from
actually completing this task that's the
whole perfectionist mentality of that
word isn't writer that sentence or that
structure isn't perfect and sure enough
that prevents you from actually getting
into that flow state and getting
momentum so right for the waste bin
right with an attitude that this is not
going to be perfect because nothing is
you know another tip that I have from
Dan Kennedy who's a successful author
and a speaker a coach and entrepreneur
and marketer as he says he has something
called the 80% approach and he actually
has a book called the 80% approach any
viscous as that you know you can never
do anything 100% hundred-percent is
perfect and last time I checked no one's
perfect so when you strive for a hundred
percent you're basically you know doing
something that is just unattainable for
anybody out there it's going to drive
you insane
so the 80% approach means that really
that the the value and the meet in
anything is in the first 80% and so he
says you want to strive just to do 80%
80% is good enough and yes you could
always make things better and prove it
over time but just aim to do 80% that's
a very important thing so oftentimes
when I write I'm making spelling errors
my sentences don't make sense whatever
but I'm just trying to get into that
flow I'm just trying to express my ideas
my thoughts onto paper onto a computer
screen and I'm just trying to get it out
of me and I don't care how it looks how
it sounds but I'm just kind of doing a
mental mind dump and you know just kind
of trying to capture all the thoughts
and ideas that I have in this writing it
out the best that I can and one thing
that's helped me with that as well
another tip is using a timer I like to
use a timer a stopwatch and I'll be like
hey I have an hour and I have to write
as much as I can on this chapter in an
hour
and sure enough they'll get a chapter
done but it might sound horrible but
then you can just go back and improve it
make it
you can you know that's just a draft you
can have other people look at it make it
better as well but at least just when I
have that sense of urgency I get a lot
done and so that's another really
powerful tip that I have as well for
that so I've given you a bunch of things
and this might be a little bit scattered
for you but a lot of strategies and tips
that have really worked for me in
writing a book and I should covered a
lot of psychology because again I think
the mindset the psychology is the most
important thing in terms of the actual
structure of writing a book one thing
that's worked well for me is having an
outline and so I map out ahead of time
what this book is going to look like you
know what are the chapters going to be
how many chapters are there going to be
what's my oakum what do I want to
accomplish by writing this book and when
you break it down and kind of again you
chunk it down into all the different
chapters chapter one is going to be on
this chapter two is going to be on this
chapter three is going to be on this I
have a map doh and then I write down in
each chapter what are all the most
important things that I want to cover in
this chapter what do I have to say about
this what are examples that I want to
use what are stories I don't want to
share what are all the points the
distinction is that I want to make and
I'll just kind of put them there in
bullet point and when you have that
outline that's a lot easier for you to
now start writing with because now you
can just look at the outline of chapter
one and you can just get started writing
it and so having an outline ahead of
time is very very important because if
you're just trying to go from scratch
and you don't have everything mapped out
in that way then it's going to be very
challenging for you also so make sure
that you have an outline in place and a
great thing with that as well is that
you know maybe you have certain bullet
points in each chapter well you can now
go and research when it comes to writing
that chapter all the things that you
want to say about it you can look online
you can get different quotes and
different ideas and you know all this
other stuff out there by researching and
then include that in the chapter as well
so hopefully that makes sense for you
now I've shared a lot with you on how to
write a book hopefully this has been
useful for you I also want to share with
you I have a great online course a video
course called how to write a book in
less than 24 hours and you can learn
more about that at 24 our book calm okay
WW 24 hour book calm I'll have a link
below but if you want to actually get
over that procrastination be able to
write a book and a fast period of time
doesn't have to be in 24 hours I've done
it in 24 hours but other people can take
a little bit longer than that it's
totally fine but the point of the
program is to help people get started to
actually write their book and actually
finish it and I have a lot of cool tips
and strategies like this that can help
you actually complete your book so I
want to invite you to check that out as
well but hopefully you enjoyed this
video and hopefully it will help you be
able to write your book take action and
actually get it done so I'm going to
thank you again for watching this I want
to invite you to subscribe for more
videos like this as well and I'll talk
to you soon bye
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