So Start Your Book Already, And Write Like The Wind

People love to buy books that show them how to live a better life. Your experiences are unique. You have been tested and have gone through the trial by fire. You are now prepared to write your book and teach others how to find security and satisfaction, just as you were able to. And, as you help others, you create a new income stream for yourself.
Share Your Unique Experience With Others
You have something to say that no one else can say because your experience is unique. Your experience, and your book, can be a valuable example for others, something that they can learn from and perhaps copy and build on to improve their own lives.
You may think, “There are already a lot of books written on my topic, so there’s not much more to say.” The same could be said of love songs, but people keep writing them, and hopefully always will.
Yes, there are many books written, but I think the world would benefit from one by you. You can bring your authentic experience to the table, an experience that is unique and that connects with other people.
Your Book Meets a Need in Your Own Life
When you write a book, you not help others by sharing the lessons that life has taught you, but you also fill a need in your own life.
Writing your experiences and opinions on paper forces you to focus on what you have accomplished and learned. To put ideas into words on a page requires a thoughtful analysis of what you have done. This analysis deepens the experience for you and when written down, immortalizes the experience. Now it is forever etched in your mind and on the published page.
Writing a book is not for the faint of heart, but you will regret the time that you spend doing it. Writing a book requires such a great effort, to organize your thoughts, to edit & re-write, and to go through periods of doubt and mental stress. But by the time you finally finish, you feel a wave of relief and accomplishment wash over you. You have created something remarkable. And that feeling never really goes away.
Meet Your Two New Best Friends
I encourage you to buy two things to get started:
1.) a new spiral bound notebook, and
2.) a new pen.
These are your new “special” friends. Use them only for recording information about your book. Take them with you everywhere you go. I take my notebook to doctor’s appointments, to lunch, to kids sporting events, to church, and it sits close to me when I am sleeping. Write down everything that comes to mind about your book.
Before you know it, ideas will start popping into your mind like popcorn in a microwave oven. You’ll read something in a magazine, or hear someone say something in conversation, or see something in a movie, that will spark ideas or quotes for you to note in your special notebook.
Let the Journey Begin
There are few things more rewarding than writing and publishing a book.
Mark Twain said, “Really great people make you feel that you can be great too.”
When you write a book, you tell your readers, “I was successful in doing this, and you can do it too.”
Don’t keep that book simmering inside of you. Let it out, where it belongs. Many people will have their lives enriched by the experiences that you share. You may change their world, and your own.