7 Habits of the Successfully Published, Part 2: Discipline

Discipline puts focus to work by Roger Parker

Discipline is “focus in action.” Discipline transforms dreams and intentions into daily habits that result in consistent, sacrifice-free progress toward your goal of writing a brand-building book.

Discipline involves breaking the habits of “busy work,” and replacing it with the habits of daily progress on your book based on short, scheduled, working sessions.

Brand-building books are the result of research, organization, writing, re-writing, and on-going marketing. Discipline comes from:

• · Market and reader research, so you can write a book that your intended market wants, rather than a book that simply profiles your knowledge.
• · Building your days around your book, rather than trying to “fit your book time” in wherever there’s left-over time.
• · Realistic expectations, like being by satisfied when you write 2 pages during a 30-minute, daily writing session, rather than trying to “spend the weekend” writing your book–sacrificing valuable family time (and setting yourself up for disappointment if it doesn’t work out).