Writing a Book a Week: How to Write Quick Books Under the Self-Publishing Model. Write Free Book Series by Alex Foster

Author:Alex Foster [Foster, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

Actions > (greater than) Results

The trick to making a living self-publishing is to focus on your actions and not your results. Everyone wants to write a book. It takes an insane amount of effort to do so, which means most won’t. It also takes an insane amount of first-hand experience to be successful at it, which also means most won’t.

Everything has a learning curve, especially in the beginning. You won’t become a bodybuilder the first day at the gym, you won’t be able to run five miles the first time you take up running and you won’t be great at public speaking the first twenty times you do it. Don’t expect to write your first five books and see them be hits.

The results will come as a by-product of your actions. Actions are seeds and the results are the fruit they bear. Some seeds take years to grow while others are much faster. Plant enough seeds and you will eventually have enough plants that produce.

Bruce Lee once said, “Be worthy, not respectable.” People want the end goal and focus on it. Do you want to make a ton of money selling books? That’s a want for the respect. To be worthy of selling lots of books is to write lots of books. Don’t focus on the result, focus on what it takes: writing.

Confucius said the same about someone wanting to achieve, “He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.” It’s common in society to think that people are gifted or lucky and become overnight successes. The media focuses on respect and not worth. The worth was a long hard journey to get to the success. So, you write a few books and they don’t do well? You didn’t get the results you wanted so you quit? Change your focus to the actions involved and you will shine.

Make your goal in writing about getting better and not about being great. If you focus on growth instead of validation you will improve faster. You want to make progress and learn, instead of trying to prove yourself with every book you write. Writing a book a week is hard work and slow progress. If you see things as action > (greater than) results, you won’t see setbacks and failures as reflecting your self-worth, which could send you into a spiral and set you up to quit your dream of writing for a living. If the book you just published flops, it was a lesson in getting better. It’s not whether you are good or bad.

This isn't just some random motivational talk. These ideas and concepts are repeats from the most brilliant people of all time. Psychologist Dr. Carol Dweck has dedicated her life to the proven science of human motivational behavior. Her studies and research have been the starting point for many branches of psychology. Having the mindset that actions are greater than results is what all successful driven people share.

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