Who is your book asking you to become?

I recently read a statistic that says only a small number of people who start writing their books finish them.

I also read, that an even smaller number actually go on to publish their finished manuscripts.

It got me curious. Nobody starts writing a book thinking they won’t finish it.

Especially if, they feel deeply called to do this work.

What’s the difference then that takes us from the space of doubtful dithering to done?

Here’s what I think: writing the book you’re being called to write is a journey of alignment.

As you take your right place within the greater scheme of things as THE person to share the message you’re being asked to share.

Now this may sound woo-woo. It’s not.

It’s an ongoing exercise of brutal honesty. And a willingness to get out of your own way.

Tough love towards oneself. That asks us to look in all the places we haven’t yet fully claimed the person writing our book is asking us to become. 

Because it’s in those places the distractions that keep our book as a ‘nice-to-have’ thrive, all while we secretly lose our enthusiasm and keep pushing our book to the side, promising ourselves that next year will be THE year we write it.

Who is your book asking you to become?