[Writerpreneur0101] The Author Becomes What They Expect
Our first lesson in building your core writing-publishing business: how you expect to achieve and attain.
When you're writing a book (and course) about writing, it gets a bit thick at times.
"Lost in the brush" is that phrase.
But when you realize that it's all your mind and only a story at work, then things become simpler.
Because a story has expectations...
And that is where you need to start when you're teaching writers how to become authors.
Goal Achievement is a high-sounding phrase. And it's become packed with emotion all on it's own. Failure is one. Elation is another. Or both at the same time - give you angst/anxiety.
The simpler way to look at it - expectations.
What you expect to happen is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And the world is like that.
OK - back up there. Get back out of the brush.
There are some four books you should study about goal achievement or expectations:
- Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich
- Claude M. Bristol's Magic of Believing
- J. B. Jones' If You Can Count to Four...
- Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret
- Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich
There are a few others, but those will keep you more than busy.
Again, it's the classics, to my mind, which give the simple basics.
These books all say the same thing, really.
What you expect to get pretty much winds up that way.
It's the same with writing. And publishing. And marketing. And business.
All the world gets what they expect, only as they expect.
If they have low expectations, the will achieve low. The alpha's who are the headliners with all those millions made - those have much higher expectations for themselves than people around them.
That's where you start with writing.
When you doubt your ability to write - then you won't write.
When you are certain that it's going to be a big hit - then you'll take the pains to make sure that it ends up that way.
There are other elements, like persistence and faith in yourself (which are actually the same things, according to Nightingale.)
All I'm saying is that as you set your expectations high or low, the universe around you will start to become that idea. You'll see opportunities to make that goal become actuality. Or you'll get flummoxed by the resistance you find.
Let's say you want to learn how to write and then publish a book.
So you collect the books and materials that can help you with that. And this process will make you stumble onto things like this post. You test everything. And discard the stuff that's just fluff and won't work. The rest turns out to be gold.
And in your tests, you start writing. Which then ends you up with a book you can publish.
See - that wasn't so hard? Or maybe it turned out to be a lot of work. But either way, you got what you expected.
Just the way the universe is set up.
And so I had to take this up at the beginning of this course.
Which means telling you up front.
This is the first lesson of 28. We’re starting out with basics almost no writer course ever mentions - but this area builds the world you’ve always wanted, and any success you want.
Tomorrow: the 3 Natural Rules (older than recorded history) which enable you to get everything you need and/or want out of life…