10 essential mindsets of successful authors

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Essential Mindsets

of Successful

Authors

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“Mindset is everything.”

Why everything?

It dictates the actions and the results that you get.


“If you don’t work with the right mindset,

from a self-publisher

it will be hard to find success because your own thought process may be holding you back, guiding

in the wrong direction.”


Some help you become more productive and get greater results.

Mindset is an established set of

attitudes and beliefs that you’re holding.

Some might be stealing your time and ruining your business.


If you want to succeed, you need to learn the mindsets to

hold on to.

Here are 10 essential mindsets of successful authors…


1

FOCUS ON A FEW IMPORTANT

ACTIVITIES

I believe in the 80/20 rule:

These could be writing a book, building an author platform and finding partners.

20% of your efforts produces

80% of the results


Focusing on the wrong activities will take you nowhere and just waste

your time.


2

FIRST THINGS FIRST

and make a

DAILYTO-DO

LIST

Once you know which activities are important for your business,


What should be done first? What should be done later?


Your Daily To-Do List?

“Writing takes a lot of my willpower, so I do it first thing in the morning. After I’m done, I

move on to other activities.”


This mindset will insure that you get the most important things done first.

MORNING: Tasks that are the most important

and require a lot of energy

AFTERNOON/EVENING: Tasks that require less energy


3

DON’T BE A LONE WOLF

Doing it by yourself because you think you are the only candidate or you want to save

the cost of hiring someone else,

SELF-PUBLISHING = HARD WORK

WILL ONLY SLOW YOUR MOVEMENT IN THE MARKET.


You get greater results and even more quality work done.

OUTSOURCE and DELEGATE!

You have more time to focus on important activities to help you grow and build your bottom line.


The task is repetitive. This does not require creative ideas and wastes a lot of time to do. Better hire a virtual assistant (VA).

Delegate when…

The task requires a skill you don’t have. If it’s not your expertise, outsource the job to an expert. The task is something you hate to do.


You can find virtual assistants and freelancers at:


4

USE CRITICISM AS A LEARNING

OPPORTUNITY

“I had a friend who was very inspired to write a book. He put a lot of time in doing research, writing and polishing it. After a

few days of posting it on Amazon, he got a one-star negative review and it made him

mad. He became discouraged and stopped promoting his book.”


No matter how great you think your book is,

you will always get some negative reviews.

This happens to every author - getting bad reviews is part of the

game and you shouldn’t become reactive to it.


Use it as a learning opportunity to grow yourself.

Find out why readers give you negative reviews.

Learn from them, improve your book, send out the revised version and

DON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN!


5

FOCUS ON ONE NICHE

Writing books: one or multiple niches?


PROS OF FOCUSING ON ONE NICHE (CONS OF MULTIPLE NICHES)

Get repeat sales from existing customers (or they won’t buy if it’s not a related subject).

Help establish your expertise and authority in your field, indicating your knowledge and passion for it (or they’d think you’re just in it for the money).

Build one author platform at a time for e-mail campaigns, blogs and other media channels (or you’d waste the time you could have used to write books).


6

HAVE MULTIPLE REVENUE

STREAMS

If you’re relying solely on income from selling books, you might leave real money on the table.

Build an AUTHOR PLATFORM so you can earn money from it.

Other sources of income: Video courses and affiliate products Sponsor ads


7

DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN

ONE BASKET

In this digital world, everything changes all the time.

You should create a safety net by building and growing your own audience early on.

Capture readers’ email addresses through your books so that you have a list of your readers you can develop the relationship and do business with in the future.


8

STRATEGIES BEFORE TACTICS

Too many authors focus on finding and using tactics to sell more books

on the Amazon platform.

They focus on buying and using keyword tools in the hope the right keyword would mean a hit.

With so many products and content promising you the benefits of their tactics and techniques, you might be

swayed from doing things more important.


What really matters is STRATEGY.

plan of action designed to achieve a major or overall aim

blueprint that you develop early on

framework that acts as a guide to make sure what you’re doing is right

The right strategy paints the big picture, with tactics paving the way to support it.


9

OVERCOME PERFECTIONISM

It’s hard to get things done when you want every detail to be perfect.

A first draft entails writing continuously, letting ideas flow. Forget editing sentences in between,

you’ll have time to do it later.

Being a perfectionist can affect every area, not only in writing. What’s important is you get to see the results quickly and learn what works and what doesn’t and move on.


10

TREAT PUBLISHING AS A

BUSINESS

If you want to be a hit in self-publishing, don’t treat this game as a hobby but a real business.

Changing your perspective can change the results you get:

Treat the publishing game as a business and you think of growth and success.

Learn every aspect of your business so that you know how to

maximise your return.


Five Important Questions to help gain insight and grow

your publishing business:

1. Who are your readers and what are their problems?

2. What are your topics and how many books are you planning to write?

3. How much time do you need to finish writing one book?

4. What type of author platform are you going to build?

5. How can you earn money from your author platform?


There you have it…

10 mindsets of successful authors

that beliefs and attitudes dictate the

actions and the results that you get.

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