Taking Your Time While Creating an Ebook

Your system is the most important part of using your time correctly. Your system is everything to do with your book: discovering what your customers want, what you're going to write about, even marketing. If you spend too much time on one small section it will slow up the entire process. For this reason make certain you give enough time to each section that you can do what you need to do in it, while not wasting time.

However, if you take more time than is necessary, several things can, and probably will, happen:

1. You won't finish your book

It's as simple as that. If you spend too much time on one small part of the book you won't finish the whole. You need to look at completing the book in its entirety, not making a small part perfect. You may know exactly what your customers want, and you may have read every piece of writing on your subject out there; nothing matters much if your book is incomplete.

2. You'll waste time re-thinking your book

While it may not seem obvious, if you spend a lot of time writing your book you will end up re-thinking it. Once you re-think your book, you'll want to re-write sections. This will go on and on until you realize you've gone too far, you give up, or you finally decide that this is the final copy, except for editing.

3. You'll spin your wheels

If you allow too much time for writing your book, you'll end up not getting anywhere. You'll keep writing and it won't be of any use to what you're writing about. It'll be pointless. It'll be redundant. You'll be repeating things multiple times. You'll be thinking of every different way to say the same thing. Snap yourself out of it, and keep moving, rather than staying in a single spot.

4. Analysis Paralysis and Research Paralysis

Analysis paralysis is when you become so focused on the determining the problem you never solve it. All you do is describe the problem. You can keep talking and explaining the problem but you'll never do anything with that. Solve the problem now, give them a solution. Do not keep explaining the problem. Research Paralysis is similar, except instead you keep researching and learning but never do anything with it. Research is fun, writing is hard. Once you know enough about the subject, start writing. You don't have to be a walking encyclopedia on the subject.

5. You will avoid writing

Quite obvious, and quite simple. You just will not get to writing. If you keep researching, you won't write your EBook. If you keep learning about your customers you'll never write your book. Unfortunately, writing is hard. Most of the other tasks are fun. Give yourself enough time and you'll focus on the fun tasks and ignore writing. Find out what you need to know, enough to make you knowledgeable on the subject and about your customers, then start writing.

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Glen Ford is an accomplished consultant, trainer and writer. He has far too many years experience as a trainer and facilitator to willingly admit.