What happens when you write a book

At 11am today I rushed to the door as I heard the post land on the mat. In the pile of mail was a parcel for me containing the first copy of my new book.

You’d have thought that as this is my third book, I wouldn’t have had a thumping heart and butterflies as I tore open the paper. And there it was, a copy of my new bright and shiny book with my name on the front cover.

There really is something special about that moment.  Plus a little bit of apprehension when you peer inside and you wonder if it’s as good as you remembered. You worry that despite checking, checking and double checking, whether anything is wrong.  For the first person who spots the first typo, there’s a box of chocolates coming your way!

I was catching up with one of my clients this afternoon who can’t wait for her book to be done. Although it has taken a lot longer than she had anticipated (it hasn’t come on in leaps and bounds as she hoped), what she told me is that it’s already helped her to ‘step it up a level’. She’s realised that she’s becoming good at the research, and that the act of writing the book has helped her to increase her expert http://premier-pharmacy.com/product-category/sleeping-aids/ status.

It puts her on a different level when working with clients and giving advice, and it’s led to opportunities that may have passed her by if she hadn’t decided to write her book. Things like articles in national magazines, funding for workshops and events, plus it’s given her the confidence to specialise in an area that’s important to her – helping people to eat well to outsmart cancer.

When you make that decision to write a book, something does change inside.  You play a bigger game, you get very good at what you do, and it’s more than actually writing the book, even though that’s important.

That act of telling people you’re writing a book puts you in a different league and you can use this to your advantage. Plus it will help you to make money from your book even before it’s written, just by showing up in a different way.

Oh and of course, there are other strategies that you can implement, but you’ll have to buy the book to find out what these are!

What do you think?

I’d love to have your comments on this post, feel free to add them below.