Today I’m submerging into a deep dive mastermind on pushlishing.
Publishing provides the ability to CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
It changes your opportunities.
It changes your outlook.
It presents you with (often hilarious and random!) opportunities.
It helps you reflect and consolidate what you know.
And simply from a therapeutic point of view, it gets your (millions of) thoughts out of your mind and into reality.
For many, they don’t publish because there is little room to hide, but I think once you’ve entered the minefield of motherhood and fuse that with the success you’ve had in life leading up to this point, you probably realise that hiding doesn’t really serve anyone. But whether you publish it for you, or for others, writing can be a fantastic tool to have in your tool kit, not to mention and AMAZING leverage tool.
So often people ask, when should you start publishing – NOW!
‘But I don’t have any experience’, I hear you say. Well I’d challenge that. Do you speak every day? Have you spend the last thirty years speaking? Have you ever recalled a story to someone? Have you ever heard a story?
I suspect you get my line of thinking, but perhaps you don’t think you’re any good at writing. Well I’d challenge that too. Have you ever tried? Have you ever persisted? And how do you think you might improve?
Exactly. Just start. Today.
Discomfort does always proceed victory, and there are some stats to back this up for writing. And there are some tactics to break through it as well.
They call the first 12-20 thousand words the jump out the window phase. ‘It hurts!’, says Andrew Griffiths, Australia’s leading small business writer and author of eleven books and counting. ‘But this is the point’, he continues. ‘There are ups and downs, but that is part of the point.
For those action taking kind of peeps, he provides two key tips to just getting on with it and getting started.
Just trust in the process.
Focus on just the task of writing.
And while 12-20 thousand words may seem like a lot, considering five hundred words is about one A4 page, if you were to set yourself a ‘page a day’ challenge or thirty days, a quick mathematical equation would have you breezing through 12 thousand and well and truly on your way to 20 after just one month. (and you’d have an amazing quantity of content in the likes of thoughts, blogs, letters, which may be repurposed at a number of times you’re not even aware of yet).
And from a business point of view, WHY publish? There is an absolute multitude of reasons to write and publish, but here’s Andrew’s top 6.
1. Credibility
2. Share ideas
3. Influence others in a positive way – connect with things you’re really passionate
4. Connect with your tribe
5. Allows you to connect with people you have dreamt of
6. LEVERAGE
Never write a word to use it once.
And if for no other reason, writing helps you to sleep better at night, knowing that you’ve got cycling things out of your head onto paper, and that you don’t need to remember it any more!
So, whether you want to write ‘to’ someone in a journal, you want to capture your thoughts via Evernote and its notebooks, or you want to start a ‘morning pages’ ritual, start writing today. Who knows what door it might open for you?
Rx
