Let Your Voice Be Heard

Let Your Voice Be Heard!

It is amazing that each and every one of us has a unique voice.  No two voices are truly alike.  We all have a distinct speech pattern.  A voice can remind us of another voice or even sound like someone else’s but our voices are unique.

Daily I teach and encourage students to speak up and let their voice be heard.  Sure we have to have order so they need to raise their hand but when I see a hand go up, I call on them because it is important for their voice to be heard.  There are other students who try to speak for and answer for another student but I stop them and make sure that the other student’s voice is heard.  I also remind them, don’t let someone else speak for you, speak for yourself.

One of the beautiful things about a book is that it introduces your voice to the world.  Your distinct vocabulary, phrasing, ideas and take on a familiar subject or new concept.

No matter the format of the book, your voice should be heard.  You have something to say.  You have information to share.  You have an answer to someone’s question.  Even though someone else may have the answer, don’t let someone speak for you.  Speak up for your expertise, ideas, creativity and gift.  Speak up and let your voice be heard.

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7 Things to Consider when Writing a Book

It’s 2017 and you wanted to write a book in 2016.  Let’s get started so here are 7 things to consider before beginning to write your book.

7 Things to Consider When Writing a Book

Writing a book is satisfying and there is always reason to celebrate when the book is available for sale in person or online.  If you have always dreamed of publishing a book, the sooner you get started the better.  There is an audience waiting, problems remain unsolved, questions unanswered and most importantly, you are missing out on a stream of income.  To help you write your book even faster, here are 7 tips to get you started:

1. Your Expertise/Knowledge – Your book should be something that you know a lot about and others would consider you an expert.
2. Passion – There is nothing like having an author who is passionate about the topic of their book.  Imagine a new grandmother with a new grandbaby and you ask her about the grandchild.  Do you think that she will be excited to show you pictures in her phone?
3. Business – If you have a business, you should have a book.  Your book should be related to your book.  You’re an expert in your business and should be able to easily come up with a book related to your business.  Hint:  It’s another product or service to bring you another stream of income.
4. Audience – Who is the audience for your book?  Think about the age, gender, cultural background or habits of the people that would be interested in your book.
5. Social Media Active – Are you active on social media?  Do you hang out where your audience hangs out?  Do you communicate with this audience?  If not, find out where they hang out and start engaging them.
6. Be Social – This is different from Social Media because your audience may not be online so you should be making connections with people in person as well as online.
7. Vision for Your Book – Do some research and look for other books that are already published on your topic so that you can get a vision for your book.

Write. Publish. Promote Your Life!

Write. Publish. Promote. Your Abundant Life!

When you see the title of this post, I know that the first thing that you think of from me is books.  You are partly correct because my life is now consumed with helping others and helping myself to write, publish and promote books.  As I thought more and looked closer at these three words, I realized that it doesn’t have to be a book that you are writing but your life.  It doesn’t have to be an eBook that you are publishing but your purpose.  It doesn’t have to be a class, course, book or conference that you are promoting but you.  You are the author of your life.  You are the publisher, creative director and publicist of your purpose.  You control what activities you participate in, people you participate with and allow to enter into your personal space to either help or hinder you from fulfilling your purpose.  You are your own best promoter.  Ultimately, whether you’re an author, artist, teacher, preacher or homemaker, people still want to connect with you.  So what do you want to promote about you?  Your social media friends want to know, your largest search engines want to find out, retain and display the information every time someone puts your name in the search field.  What will they find?  What will you allow them to see?  What will you write about today and publish tomorrow and promote for the next year? 

The world is your library.  Your Life and Your book can be on any shelf.  You are holding the pen.  Use it wisely.  Write, Publish and Promote your story, your life, your way. 

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