![]() It will help you get more disciplined, hone your craft, and finally become the writer you've dreamed of being. My 500 Words is a 31-day challenge designed to help you answer that question. Everyone says you ought to be writing every day, but how? Investing in sustainable solutions means doing the hard work of understanding what is not working today.You love writing but have never been good at the whole discipline thing. ![]() You are looking for shortcuts- someone to give you the solution because you are not so interested in the problem. If you are not going to expend energy in trying to understand what is wrong and broken, if you are not ready to feel uncomfortable, might as well just stop now. Invest time in finding the questions to ask before you go around fixing the problem. This book will raise more questions than provide answers.Īs an organization, or an individual leader, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of understanding the problem better. This book is not a practical how-to guide. It wont give you the formula to make it while staying true to who you are. What did they do, how did they feel and react? Someone who was hired because they were different, because they challenged the status quo but then were told that they don't really belong here. I would have loved to hear from someone who had gone through their career journey being different, and recount the struggles they faced driving change and hitting against a wall again and again. I help leaders better understand the challenges they are up against in leading in a different way, so that they can be prepared and start designing their own unique path to success. It’s people like me.Īnd so I rewrote the thesis statement 5 days in with this new perspective: What would I write for myself? What kind of book did I need that was not there? That is a powerful question, the audience is suddenly way more specific. Now, that is an important perspective for sure, but James Clear’s statement resonated with me more. So, I kept on doing that, jotting down the questions my audience would have. What are their challenges? Hesitations? Concerns?’ So when I sent him my thesis statement he wrote back and said ‘think about how your audience would ask for your help in their own words. His formula is about how to make a product that sells, so you write the book for the audience not for yourself. Now this was a different way of thinking than what Joshua was proposing. His publisher said ‘ We write the books we need.’ He told a story about his chat with the publisher about how he struggled with setting in place the right habits to write his book and he laughed because his book is about habits. A few days in I was listening to Brene Brown’s podcast in which she interviews James Clear the author of Atomic Habits. ![]() ![]() I help leaders become more agile, empathetic and inclusive so that they can lead teams that thrive in the rapidly changing digital age.īut I charged ahead, speed over quality, I picked one and moved forward. I help leaders apply human centric strategies to lead and manage teams so they can amplify impact. I am not a comedian or a fiction writer, so I jumped quickly towards finding what I was solving for the reader and came up with a few thesis statements. According to Joshau, readers choose to buy books based off of 1 of 2 things. But it seemed to have guided me towards a generic how-to framework. I am following Joshua Sprague 30 day challenge guidance, and overall its good. It is not impersonal and generic piece of literature.It is not a list of tested solutions and advice.I can say at least It is clearer to me what my book is NOT going to be. So I am at Day 9- which means almost a third of the way? Question mark. In fact, it is so tempting to be solution oriented that I myself am falling into this trap and am catching myself in the act. There is so much pressure to see quick results, that they don't linger on questions and end up solving the wrong problem, creating a solution no one needs. The main struggle for corporate innovation and startup teams is to fight the urge to jump too quickly to solutions.
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