There is always some guilt
around knowing you should write a book and then not taking any action in that
direction - “I know I should, I know I should...” This feeling of guilt,
combined with the fear of not being able to accomplish the goal, has a
tendency to freeze most of us - freeze us in inactivity. It is a vicious circle
as we know in our head that we need to do something but we hold ourselves back
and then the pressure to move ahead creates even more fear and guilt. Yuck!
Let’s go past that today and leave it all behind. We cannot fix the past but we
can make a new choice. That is what you are doing right now - making a
choice. Choose to write the book that resides within you and know that you will
write it well and that you will express that creative side of yourself to help
make a difference in the world. In other words, “start at start.”
You may be full of ideas but do not know how to
arrange and organize them so that they become a clear and powerful manuscript
but until you get started, why should you know how to do it? Let’s look at it
this way, you would not still be reading this if you did not feel, at a deep
level, that you have something important to share with the world and you are
now ready to take the risk of sharing yourself with that world, so let’s get at
it.
“The purpose of life is to . . . matter; to feel
it has made some difference that we have lived at all.” – Leo Rosten
excerpted from, THE ONE HOUR AUTHOR: non-fiction book writing for busy people
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