I would get each chapter done as if it was a project.Įven the book cover was a project. In the case of the book, I wrote it, I read it, I updated it, I ran it by a second set of eyes, and then I tweaked it again. You can always tweak it and make it better. I need to have the cover done and then the outline finished, along with everything else.” Perfectionism says, “I need to tweak everything. What about a cover? Do I know the title of the book? If I don’t have a title of the book, I really can’t write it.” Procrastination says, “Oh, I’m not sure what to do first. When you look at it from a project standpoint… You need to figure out all the moving parts of the job and lay those out in order so that you know when you have to get to the next step. You can’t write chapter two until you write chapter one.
Block out each part of the project that you need to do.
You just need to figure out the basic part. Perfectionism says, “I need to create a Gantt chart and learn to use some project management software so I can get all of this stuff organized.” If I would have procrastinated, it probably wouldn’t be done right now. Well, it took me five months to get the book done. I want to break it down from procrastination vs. And then we have tasks to get each one of those projects done. We have the big overall picture, the job, and then we have projects inside of that job. When we’re looking at projects or when we’re looking at anything that we do, we have three core aspects. When working on any project one of the key questions you have to ask yourself is, “When is it done?” I want to talk to you about the difference between procrastination vs. All the final tweaking took a lot of work. The book had already been laid out, but it was not 100% complete. Then, this weekend I spent over eight hours just fixing typos, formatting errors, and adding the reviews and forward. It took me until the book was almost done before I figured out who I wanted to write the forward. I had a cover designer, editor, proofreader, and reviewers. Not only is it a lot of work, but I had a lot of people working on it with me. I can see why people will pay upwards of $20,000 to have a book created and published for them. It was exactly five months ago today that I started writing my book, Toilet Paper Math.
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