Naima B. Robert – Write Your Book in Lockdown

Hey there greetings and salaam My name is Nyima B Robert and I'm an

award winning author, editor and book coach for women who have an

idea and want to take that idea all the way to publishing and

launching their book. And I'm here with a wake up call for all of you

who decided that 2020 would be the year that you would finally write

and publish your book. But before I go into my wake up call, I want

to ask you a question.

How much progress have you made? In the past few weeks?

Have you created your outline?

Have you started writing? Are you halfway through?

Or have you shelved it?

Have you allowed the current uncertainty in our world? To blow

you off course? Have you shelved your book? Have you given up on

your idea? Or have you decided that it's not for now, now's not

the right time.

If that's you, I'm really here to give a public service

announcement, okay.

There is never a good time,

where there is always is an opportunity. And that's what I

would like to share with you. In this video series that I've

created, especially for those of you who have been wanting to write

a book and have not made the progress that you could have.

We all know that our current situation is one where everybody

is in a state of flux, our lifestyles have changed, our

routines have changed, a lot of things are up in the air, and

there is uncertainty all around. But I want to bring you back to

focus on a few key points. Because what I believe, and I'm going to

just be open about this, I believe that if we have our health, and

our family, and we are safe in our homes, we have everything we need

to thrive.

I'm gonna say that again. If we have our health, we have our

family, and we have our safe in our homes, and we have enough to

eat and enough toilet roll, then we have everything we need to

thrive. So if that is the case, and let's just accept for now that

it is that you have everything you need to thrive. And I'm going to

challenge you.

Why should your book Beyond the backburner? Why should your book

be put on the shelf?

Why

do you feel that your story is no longer worth telling? Or that your

message is no longer worth sharing? Who told you that?

We're making choices all the time. And so I invite you now to go

through what I call what we call like, it is like a State of the

Union address. Okay? This is like, hey, hey, calling all of you who

ever said that I want to write and publish my book in 2020. This

message is for you. Because I'm calling everybody to order right

now. Okay. And so this is how it goes. We know the current

situation. So let's go into what that means for us, as women with a

message as people with a story to tell as people who have a book

inside us. What does this mean for us? Well, firstly, what we need to

be looking at is our mindset, what is going on in our heads that has

made us pause on our writing project that has made us reluctant

to move forward?

It's the fear is the fear. It's the lack of control. And so the

first thing that I'm going to invite every single one of you to

do is reframe your current situation as an opportunity. Ask

yourself the question, How could this be the best thing that ever

happened for my book, and for my mission, and for my message and my

legacy? Second, focus on what you can control, focus on what's going

on up here. Focus on how you're using your time, focus on what

you're listening to what you're taking in and what you are doing

on a daily basis. Third, reclaim, reclaim your legacy and recommit

to it. Get back in touch with your why. And so, as you implement

these mindset shifts that are needed. I want to go into very

briefly in this video, just a few of the things that some of the

problems that I'm seeing coming up with my clients and you know, my

potential clients, how we can deal with those some of the strategies

that you can use to not allow some of these issues that have arisen

to blow you off course and take you into the middle of 2020 even

further away from

On your dream of writing a book, we don't want you further away

from your dream, we want you achieving your dream in this time.

So the first thing that I'm seeing is that I'm seeing ladies who are

paralyzed with fear of the unknown and the uncertainty. And this

really this kind of this fear, and this contraction is leading them

to give up on their book project, shelve it considered that it's not

important. And, you know, when we do that, it leads to a loss of

motivation in general. Okay, so if you thought you were a

procrastinator before, boy, now, don't you have excuses to

procrastinate, right? You got excuses, plenty, the world

economy, Corona, the kids are all homemade. Now, those of us who are

making excuses before, we feel that we have a ton of legitimate

excuses, right for why we haven't written our book. But what I'm

going to invite you to do is put these strategies into play. double

down on your mindset.

Reframe the situation that you're in, and focus on your dream,

really kind of amplify it and recommit to it and revisit that,

why so important.

The other thing that I'm seeing happening is that there are new

demands on our time, okay, our usual routine, our daily routines

have shifted. And now maybe there are children at home, maybe spouse

is at home, maybe you don't have the space that you had before the

time that you had before. And what that means is that especially as

women, typically, we end up putting ourselves last, we put our

dreams and goals on the backburner, and we prioritize

everybody else. And that means that your book is going to be

shelved your book, if you haven't recommitted to your why and

reconnect it to it, your book is going to be a nice to have, it's

going to be a hobby. And as we all know, hobbies don't get priority,

okay? Passions get priority, passion gets priority, Mission

gets priority. And so, again, I invite you to recommit. But then

on a practical level, let's look at how you can leverage things

like writing sprints, okay, so if you can just find 1020 30 minutes

a day, to sprint right in that time. Another strategy I'm

teaching my clients is to leverage tech, okay, tools like Google,

talk to text, and also the recording as well recording the

pieces that they want to put into the book, and, you know, have an

opportunity to check in daily or weekly with a word count, so you

can stay accountable. Right, this is what we are doing with our

clients at the moment is to just keep the momentum going and keep

them on course, is that they do have a weekly check in with their

word counts, specifically, right, so they keep on course. And then

the third thing that I'm seeing with with my clients and potential

clients is feeling reluctant to invest the time and the resources

in the support that they need. Okay. And basically, what that

means is that if if you have decided, I'm not going to spend

anything, I'm not going to spend any time I'm not going to spend

any money, then what that means is that you can't get the help that

you need. And that just slows everything down. So all those

stories, the I'm not good enough that Who do I think I am to write

a book and all the chatter in your head, you don't have anybody to

help you through that. To put that into context, you know, you don't

have somebody kind of checking in with you to say, you know, how's

it going, where's the word count, you know, you don't have somebody

to look over your book idea and give you feedback, or read your

chapters and give you feedback. And so that means that again, more

excuses, more excuses to procrastinate more excuses to put

it on the shelf. And so really, what I would advise is at this

time, take up any offers of, you know, working with an expert,

where they are offering something, maybe something at a lower price

point, especially because of the current economic situation. Take

up those offers. Okay? If there are any offers of split payments,

or if you're able to do like a payment plan, do that. But most

importantly, focus on the value. Focus on the value of your project

of your project, focus on the value of your book, the long term

value, be one of those people that really does see the long term and

not just in the short term, because a lot of people at the

moment are in fear and contraction, and they may stay

there until this crisis is over. And they may feel that it's safer

for them to stay in fear and contraction because they protect

themselves in this time. However, all that means is that you will

either be simply treading water, or more likely, you will take

steps backwards.

So when the crisis is over, you are going to come out of the

crisis behind others. Not having made the progress you could have

made, not having achieved what you could have achieved, not having

built what you could have built, if you had simply refrained, let

go of the fear and take in a helping hand, you know, to see you

over the fear over the bridge of fear to the other side.

So I hope that that has given you some food for thought I have more

videos coming out that kind of break this down into smaller

chunks. But for now, just want to let you know that we do have a

case study group that we're working with, we're calling it the

lockdown experiment. But we are working with women just like you

over the next 90 days to get their book done. Basic from idea.

Getting the idea clarified, getting your audience clarified,

getting clear on your books message or your story, creating a

banging outline, a solid structure, and then holding their

hands as they write their book and get it finished so they can edit

it and get it ready for the world. And if you say that sounds like

something that would help you something that you would love to

be a part of, then just reply to this email with committed or

comment below with committed and let's have a chat to see if you're

a fit. Okay, see if we're a fit to work together to see if we can

help you to get your book out of all this crisis is over. Look out

for my next videos coming in the next couple of days. And I hope to

see you on the other side. Take care