Writing a Book Will Teach You About Your Fears and Your Habits

How Writing a Book Will Teach You About Yourself

Connie Ragen Green — Writing a Book Will Teach You About Your Fears and Your Habits

I’d like to share with you some ways in which writing a book will teach you about who you are, and what you can do to look objectively at how knowing yourself in this intimate way will lead to change, growth, and prosperity.

Which of these scenarios best describes you?

Scene A: You wake up refreshed to start your day and can’t wait to sit down to write another chapter (or four!) of your latest book. You adore the writing process and can easily enter your “zone” where time just stands still and your fingers move like the wind across the keyboard.

Scene B: You wake up refreshed to start your day but you do everything else on your to-do list first instead of writing a chapter of the book that you know will boost your business. Procrastination is your friend and the “reasons” you give yourself for not writing are simply excuses.

Writing a book is certainly a great way to boost your credibility, increase your name recognition, and massively increase your profits but it is also a mirror we can use to deeply examine our greatest fears and work habits. If writing a book were easy, everyone would be published. Acknowledging and understanding these fears and habits…