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Sometimes You Just Need to Start
A few days after I signed my Big 5 book deal, I sat staring at my MacBook, wondering, "do I just start a new Google doc?"
As a naive first-time-author, I imagined a book stork dropping down from the sky to hand me an official, beautifully decorated document where I'd write my first book.
In reality, I clicked a few buttons on my MacBook and unceremoniously created a blank Google doc titled MY BOOK.
No one clapped. Angels didn't start singing. I just drooled some of my water onto my hoodie.
Staring at the blank page before me, I froze.
Unsure what to write, I did what any reasonable person would do:
🧹 I cleaned my closets. Reorganized junk drawers. Transferred all my dried goods into glass containers and neatly alphabetized and labeled my pantry.
I did everything but write my book... because I was waiting to figure out how to write it perfectly.
I spent time researching "how to write a book" and "how to structure a chapter," all things I probably should have done before getting the deal.
Every tip I found conflicted with the last.
I decided I had nothing to lose:
I wrote 56 pages of Chapters 1-3.
I waited for Nana, my editor, to send her feedback. My stomach was in knots waiting for her edits to come back. I braced for a whole lot of red ink, but what I really got was:
An education.
She taught me how to write a chapter and how the book should flow... and it was basically the opposite of what I'd written.
It was hard to hear.
I felt like an idiot who got a book deal, but didn't know how to write one.
With all of this (humbling) feedback in hand, each chapter got smoother and easier to write. And each one came with a little less feedback :)
Turns out, I didn't need to wait to learn how to write a book perfectly...
I needed to throw my first pancake chapter on the griddle, let it suck a little, and be open to learning so I could make the next ones better.
I know you might feel like you need to learn x, y, and z before you start the business/podcast/course/product launch...
But perfection doesn't come before you start. It comes because you started.
🥞 Stop planning. Start doing. Listen to episode 255 to hear why waiting for perfection keeps you stuck—and how your “first pancake” move might be the best start your business needs.
🎧 LISTEN HERE→
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