Seven Ways To Make Sure Your Booklet Gets Written

Are you tired of sitting around waiting for your booklet to write itself ?  Here are seven ways to make sure the writing gets done!

1) Don’t wait until you feel that surge of inspiration. Inspiration will come to you as you write. Sit down and write it now!

2) Turn off the tv. This is valuable time you can use!  No more excuses about not having enough time!

3) Unplug your phone. The last thing you need right now is a ringing phone to interrupt your thoughts!

4) Plan your writing time just as you would any other appointment and take it seriously.

5) Plan to reward yourself when your manuscript is finished.  This gives you some immediate gratification to look forward to!

6) Don’t start with a blank page. Do your research or throw a few ideas on paper before you start writing your manuscript.  This will make your writing flow much easier.

7) Make a commitment to yourself to get it done and be determined to keep that commitment.

To your riches!

Kim

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This Mistake Will Cost You Time And Money – Are You Guilty Of Making It?

Your work time is important.  You need time to think about what to write, and time to actually write.  You need time to come up with production ideas, and time to talk with prospective buyers.  In essence, You need time to run your booklet business, and you can’t do it when you’re constantly interrupted – either by your own doing or by those around you.

Plan Your Work Time

From the very start of your booklet adventure, you must decide when you will work. It’s ok to start part time.  You might choose to only work an hour each day, five days a week in the beginning.  Or, you might choose to work eight hours a day five days a week, working full time.  Either way is fine, and so is anything in between.

Choosing the days and hours you will work helps you to define how your day will look.  When you know that you will be working Monday through Friday from 9am to noon, you know that you won’t be available for anything else during that time.  This allows you to plan your time so that you can get your work done.  It also allows you to plan your fun, or other things outside of work that you want or need to do.

As the sole owner of your booklet business you probably work from home, and one of the main problems with that is that most people who attempt self employment from home don’t know how to structure or plan their day so that it is productive. This is why so many businesses fail and so many business owners go back to their old job working for someone else.

Stick To Your Plan

Once you know what days and hours you will work, you must stick to your plan and actually work.  Work time doesn’t mean that you talk to your friends on the phone, surf the internet or get in touch with your Facebook friends.  These kinds of activities suck the productive time out of you like a vampire sucking blood.  Spending your time on these activities instead of working shifts your focus, making it more difficult for you to get your work done even if you want to get back to it.

Save all your non-work activities for your off hours.  Use your working hours for building your business and your future.  Whenever you’re tempted to do something during your work hours that is not a work related activity, just imagine that activity costing you money – because it is! You just don’t realize it.

How To Curtail Outside Interruptions

Sometimes, in spite of your best efforts, you will be interrupted by others when you’re working.  Interruptions cost you time and make it difficult to get back on track.  One study showed that it takes the average person 20 minutes to pick up where they left off after an interruption occurred.  That’s 20 minutes lost forever, plus the time the actual interruption took! If you’re working part time, that really cuts into your day and sucks up your productivity!

People who interrupt your productivity need to know exactly when your working hours are, and when it’s ok to talk with you or call you.  Your friends and family don’t mean to interrupt.  They just don’t know what your working parameters are.  They may think that because you’re at home, you’re available.  They don’t realize that you need time simply to concentrate on what you’re doing. After all, you’re at home.  You can do as you please.  This means they think they can talk to you now and you can work later.  It’s up to you to tell them that you can’t, and why.

Being constantly interrupted is not only frustrating, it’s non-productive and costs you time and money.  Don’t make the mistake of allowing yourself or others to interrupt your work time except in the case of a true emergency.  Choose your working hours and then guard them carefully.  Your riches depend on it!

To your riches,

Kim

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How The Interent Can Steal Your Riches And What You Can Do About It

I’ve done it and so have you.  It’s hard not to.  The temptation is just too great.  I’m talking about using your computer to procrastinate instead of getting your writing or other work done.

We live in a technological world today.  Distractions are everywhere.  First, there was the TV, the radio and the telephone.  But now, we’re completely “wired.”  We’ve got blackberries, cell phones, and the internet.  And, even if you unplug the phone, and turn off the tv, radio, cell phone and blackberry, as an author you very likely won’t escape the clutches of the  internet.

Where Did That Hour And A Half Go?

It begins innocently enough.  You sit down at your scheduled writing time (you are scheduling your writing time – aren’t you?) and decide that before you start writing you’ll take a quick look at your email.  Next thing you know you’re answering email instead of writing.  Then, you click on a link that you received in an email and now you’re on the internet.  One link leads to another and then another.  Now you’re reading articles that interest you, or browsing websites.  And then, suddenly, you remember that you’re supposed to be writing.  You look at the clock.  How could an hour and half go by so quickly?  It seems you just sat down to write, and now your writing time is nearly over and you haven’t written a single word!

When this scenario repeats itself day after day, your plans and ideas for your booklet stop cold.  You’re not moving forward toward your goals.

But Wait!  It Gets Worse!

It’s bad enough when your time is sucked away by the internet at the start of your booklet’s creation, before you’ve written anything.  This keeps your project from ever getting started.  But, it’s almost worse when it happens and you’re in the middle of your booklet’s creation.  You’ve got your manuscript partially done.  And up until now the momentum on your project, and your excitement for completing it, has been absolutely stellar.  You’ve been feeling good about your booklet and happy with the progress you’ve been making.  And then, all of a sudden, it happens.  You get sucked into the internet and start losing time, and your work on your booklet stalls.

Why is this worse than not starting your booklet in the first place?  Because the momentum you’ve had up until this point has been interrupted, and once that happens it’s difficult to get it back.  It’s like being in a deep conversation with someone and having someone else interrupt you.  It’s difficult to get back on track in the conversation once you’ve been interrupted.  Writing your booklet is the same way.

As you create your booklet, you build momentum.  You begin to see your dream unfolding before your eyes, and your imagination suddenly brings all kinds of good things to your mind – things that will happen for you as a result of having your booklet finished and on the market.  The things that come to your imagination excite you and they become your goals.  But, all of this is wiped away when your writing time is interrupted.  When you do get back on track, you will have to begin building up the momentum all over again.  And, if you haven’t written anything in over a week, you’ll be hard pressed to get your momentum back at all.

How To Control The Beast

As an author, you need your computer.  There’s really no getting around it.  You need a good word processor for writing, and you need the internet for research and marketing purposes.  So, how can you control your time so that you don’t squander it away?  Set a goal and stick to it.  Determine that you will write a specific number of words or pages before you even look at anything else, and allow what you write to be imperfect.

Writing perfectly isn’t the goal.  Writing is the goal.  You can go back over what you’ve written after it’s done and make changes, but if you don’t get the writing done you’ll have nothing to change.

You must make your writing your first priority.  If you do, you’ll always get it done.  This means that under no circumstances will you put anything else, other than a dire emergency, above your writing.  You will get your writing done first.

The only way to control the beast of the internet is simply not to give into it.  If you need to, disconnect your internet connection so that you won’t even be tempted to get online until your writing is done.  Or, if that won’t work for you, write your manuscript with a pencil and paper offline.  It may seem archaic, but it’s better to do that than not to finish your manuscript at all.

If you truly want the riches, you’ve got to get the writing done.  Make it your first priority, and you’ll soon have money coming in from your booklet’s sales!

To your riches!

Kim

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Wise Words On A Coffee Cup – You Have More Time Than You Think You Do

Yesterday a rare thing happened.  I had a little time to kill.  I had my 13 year old daughter with me, and I decided it would be nice to chat over coffee at Starbucks (hot chocolate in her case).   I enjoy sitting with my daughter in such a relaxed atmosphere.  It gives us a chance to connect – something many parents find difficult to do with their teenage children.

As I sat at the little round table listening to my daughter chat away, I noticed something was written on the back side of my coffee cup.  Upon reading these wise and revealing words, I decided to post them here for you because they tie in perfectly with a point I often try to make – that we have more time than we think we do.  Here, then, for your consideration, is what I read:

Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television – which means in a typical life span we devote 13 uninterrupted years to our TV sets!  The biggest problem with mass media isn’t low quality – it’s high quality.  Cutting down just an hour a day would provide extra years of life – for music and family, exercise and reading, conversation and coffee (and writing! -me).

-Michael Medved, author of Right Turns and radio talk show host

To your riches!

Kim

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How To Be A Have Instead Of A Have Not

Of all the things an author needs for success, there is one that stands far above the rest.  Without it you can accomplish nothing.  It’s something we all possess, but most of us misuse it or ignore it, or even throw it away.  I’m talking about your most treasured resource and asset, which slips away moment by moment.  I’m talking about time.

Time Waits For No One

How often have you said you wanted to write a booklet (or a book), but you never found the time to start?  You’ve dreamed of living a richer life, yet you’ve done nothing to make it happen because you were too busy with other things.  It’s time to get serious.

Time waits for no one.  It goes on whether you’re watching tv, writing emails, surfing the net, talking on your cell phone, doing laundry or making dinner.   And, at the end of a long, tedious day, you may find yourself saying you just didn’t have time to get to your writing, but you’ll be sure to get to it tomorrow.  There will come a day, however, when you’ve run out of tomorrows, and all you have left is today.

Why You’ll Never Find The Time To Write And What You Can Do About It

Creating any written piece, whether it’s a manuscript, an article or blog post, is something you must make the time to do.  If you try to find the time to fit it in, you never will.  There will always be something else more important needing to be done, and the writing will have to wait.  But is it really fair to yourself to let your dreams of living a better life and doing what you love take a backseat to television?  Or the laundry?  Or dinner?  Of course not.  These things are really just excuses to keep you from accomplishing your goals.  The laundry can wait an hour or two.  Dinner can be eaten while you write.  Television can be skipped altogether.

If you’re having trouble finding the time you need to get your booklet started or finished, look at all the things you do in your day and ask yourself what you can cut out.  Then, replace those things with the things you need to do to reach your goals.  There are some things which will always be important, such as time spent with your children.  But, when you are looking for the time wasters in your day, you will suddenly become aware of several menial and unimportant things you do that can either wait or be removed from your day altogether.

The biggest difference between the haves and the have nots in society is how they use their time.  Make the most of yours.

To your riches!

Kim

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The Mother Of All Excuses Laid To Rest Once And For All

You’re itching to write a booklet.  You know you’ve got some good information to offer.  But, you’re concerned about the amount of time and money it will cost you to do it.  This, my friend, is the mother of all excuses and I’m about to lay it to rest for you.

First, let me say that if you were writing a book, I’d be inclined to agree with you.  Self publishing a book is an expensive proposition (yes, even with all the POD technology we have today), and it does take quite some time to put a book manuscript together.  But, no so with a booklet.

Because a booklet has so much less volume than a book (mine range from 16 – 20 inside pages), it won’t take you much time to write.  I created my first manuscript in two weeks, and I wrote my third one in just three days!  How’s that for taking a bite out of the time factor?

And the production of your booklet really won’t cost you a cent when you consider the return on your investment.  First, you’ll be using much less paper and ink, which are the main expenses in book production, so you’ll invest very little money in getting your actual product created from your manuscript.  Second, your booklet will be on the market much faster than if it were a book, which means you’ll reap a return on your investment very quickly.  And third, there are times when you don’t need to print hard copies at all and if that’s the case for you, then you won’t need to invest in printing which will save you money.

So how about it?  Now that we’ve got all the excuses out of the way, are you ready to get your career as a booklet author off the ground?  If you’re done with the excuses but you need a little help, I’m available for consultation but you’d better hurry because my rates are going up after January 1st.  Right now you can schedule a 30 minute consult with me for the measly sum of $149.00.  That’s a pathetically low price considering how much information you’ll receive – and I offer a money back guarantee.  If at the end of our time together you don’t feel you received your money’s worth, then I don’t deserve to keep your money so I’ll refund every cent you paid right back to you.  Have you ever heard of any other consultant who makes you this kind of offer?  Nope.  Nobody does it because they consider the time spent, not the information given.  I don’t think that’s fair, do you?

So, if you’ve been reading the blog and you really want to get started on your booklet, but you’ve got some questions or you need some direction, just contact me through the blog and I’ll be glad to set up a time for us to talk!

To your riches!

Kim

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How To Get Rid Of The Evil Time Sucking Vampires That Are Robbing You Of Your Writing Time

Today’s world is a fast paced one.  We’ve got only 24 hours in a day, and about a third of it we spend asleep.  The rest of the time is spent frantically rushing from one activity to the next, trying to fit everything in.  And somewhere, in the midst of it all, you would like to write a booklet – if you only had the time.  If this sounds like you then listen up, my friend, because you’re about to lose the no time excuse.

The reason you rush around and live such a hectic pace is because you aren’t planning your time.  What you need is a simple plan for some organization.  What I’m about to reveal to you can work for anything in your life as well as your writing, so pay attention!

An easy way to solve the time crunch is to block out a certain amount of time each day for your writing.  If you’re working a nine to five job and you’ve got children, you might want to block out an hour before work in the morning or an hour after the kids are asleep at night.  Or, you can use your lunch hour if you have a quiet place to work uninterrupted.  If you’re not working a nine to five job, you’ve probably got more time than you think you do.

Every day there are evil, time sucking vampires that literally rob you of precious minutes which add up to hours.  Once you are aware of them, you can deal with them quickly and efficiently and get more time out of your day.  Let me give you the most common ones.

The first one is the telephone.  This evil time sucking machine can interrupt you at any time without warning.  It rings and you feel compelled to answer.  Stop that right now!  Unless you’re expecting an urgently important call, you do not have to answer that phone during your writing time!  Unplug it if you need to, because chances are it’s your best friend Gladys or your Aunt Mary just calling to catch up.  Let her leave you a message (you DO have an answering machine or service, right?  If not, get one!).  You can get back to her after your writing time is finished.

The next one is your cell phone.  Like the telephone, it can ring at any time.  But this one’s even worse because you can also receive text messages, and while they may seem benign, they’ll rob you of even more time than a conversation by voice.  Why?  Because it takes longer to text than it does to speak.  Your best bet here is to turn off your cell phone during your writing time.  My own cell phone is turned off nearly all the time, unless I’m expecting a call or I need to make one.

The third is your email.  How much time do you spend reading and answering email?  If you’re like most people, you probably spend an hour a day or more.  It’s time to do a little email clean-up.  First, you need to get rid of your email notifier if you can or if you have one.  This is the little widget that pops up on your screen each time you get a letter in your in box.  I used to have one of these and sure enough, every time it would pop up I’d be curious to see what came into my in box, so I would have to go look.  Then, I was hooked.  I just had to deal with that mail right now.  This is bad!  I got rid of the notifier and now I deal with email just once a day.

After getting rid of your notifier, you need to start looking at the mail that comes to you and unsubscribe from anything that isn’t vital (No, that does NOT include this blog!!! .  I’m talking about advertisements from department stores and certain bookstores that like to inundate you with email.  Get rid of it.  You don’t need to spend your time reading their ads.  The only email you should be getting should be personal or business related, or it should be truly useful to you in some way.  The rest needs to go.

Getting your telephone, cell phone and email under control should easily allow you to block out at least an hour a day for your writing.  Maybe you’ll even be able to block out two hours a day.  So, no more excuses!  You do have time to write.  You just need to write instead of doing some of the other things you’re doing – things which won’t be nearly as profitable for you as getting your booklet on the market!

In my next post, we’ll hit another excuse right outta the ball park!

To your riches!

Kim

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You’ve Got To Do This If You’re Serious About Making Big Money With Booklets

Have you been thinking about writing a booklet for a while but just haven’t been able to find the time to sit down and do it?  If so, you’re like alot of people who have great ideas but never find the time.

Let me ask you this.  Did you find time to talk on your cell phone today?  Did you find time to watch your favorite TV shows?  How about going out to lunch?  And did you find the time to catch up with all your favorite social networks?

Here’s a revelation for you.  We live in a techno-society that, if we allow it to, literally sucks the time away from us.  It’s easy to get caught up in the web of technology that we have at our disposal today.  My own mother is a classic example.  Her cell phone is always with her, and when she’s not talking on it she’s texting someone.  She’s got some great ideas for booklets that will never see the light of day because she can’t prioritize her time to get things done.

By contrast, my cell phone is rarely ever even turned on.  I use it when I’m out if there is an emergency, or if I need to contact someone to let them know I’m on the way to meet them.  I do not have conversations on it and rarely can I ever be reached on it, even by my own children.

I do admit to having a few network pages – but I don’t allow them to get in the way of my accomplishing my goals each day.  I monitor my time on them carefully.

Some would argue that there are some very successful people on those networks.  That’s true.  But, they were already successful when they started networking, and they usually don’t belong to more than one or two networks.

If you are serious about writing booklets and making the big money, you’ve got to cut out all the little time wasters and just get it done.  Start making yourself aware of just how much time you waste on things that don’t push you further toward your goal.  Once you recognize these things as the time sucking vampires they are, cut them out or schedule them into a small block of time so you have more time to put toward the things that really matter to you, and more time for accomplishing your goals.

To your riches!

Kim

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