Have You Hugged An Organized Person Lately?

Flying Delta, at 35k feet, reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin in 2010, snapped this note, never knowing it’d come in handy today.

While there can be dozens of reasons to not finish writing a book, there really is only one. Organization. Or maybe it’s passion. Or, um, decisiveness. I’m not sure.

Bottom line (for real this time) why a book doesn’t get finished: The writer quits.

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Top 10 Reasons It’s Hard To Finish Writing A Book

Top 10 reasons it’s hard to finish writing a book:

  1. Life gets busy
  2. Timeline too aggressive
  3. Business partner leaves
  4. New plan takes time to develop
  5. New timeline is too aggressive
  6. Publishing options keep changing
  7. Travel
  8. Exercise
  9. Meditation
  10. Writing 5 daily blogs

Be easier to walk away from these poor odds, wouldn’t it?

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You Know Who’s Books Get Placed On the Bottom Shelves?

Iowa Hotel library again. By the way, my answer below is pure speculation…

The authors who’s books are placed at the bottom, are the ones who don’t sell much.

Writing is a very different skill than marketing. Readers don’t flock to a book just because it’s published.

Great marketers aren’t lucky, they’re organized.

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Would You Wish For This On Your Birthday? And I Mean For The Whole Day

World Peace is 1st on the list. This one is also up there – the smell of…

Fresh cut grass reminds me of God.

And God reminds me that I am very blessed to have had the privilege to reach a 52nd birthday today. Thanks Mom and Dad (RIP)!

And being organized with the paperwork of life, helps us create more than grocery lists or to-do lists. It helps us create the most important lists of all.

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