With the advent of our latest for-pay offering “Write a Book in 45 Days | The Action Workgroup” we’re getting a few quizzical virtual looks and queries:

“Why all the mad rush, and emphasis on completing books quickly, Andrea?”

This is a good question, one worthy of a good answer. So here’s an attempt:

10 Reasons Not To Dilly-Dally and Complete Your Book Quickly

(1) Completing quickly increases the fun other things you get to do and try, exponentially.

Books are doorways to other possibilities. In my mind, when I conjure up a visual image of my business, I see a house constructed of various materials, most notably a book where they would ordinarily be a door. Opening the book is the equivalent of putting a key in the lock.

The sooner you hold yourself to the discipline of formulating, synthesizing and producing a book, the more clarity you’ll have as to how the rest of your business can flow. A book isn’t the only way to do this, however it is one of the best ways I know to give crystal clarity *AND* purpose to your helping business.

Want to make it easier to (1) get on the radio (2) receive yes answers from joint venture partners (3) make money when you speak (4) sign autographs in fun colors or (5) design programs to add to your streams of income? Complete quickly.

(2) Completing quickly clears your head so you can think your next round of cool thoughts and decide how you’ll contribute now.

How many thoughts do you have each day? How many thoughts will you have tomorrow? Will you have finished thinking today’s thoughts in time for you to have new ones tomorrow? In fact, getting your thoughts out speedily is a responsibility to the new thoughts you’re meant to have tomorrow.

Completing quickly is an essential de-constipating process for your brain and innovation muscle so both can keep going…

(3) Completing quickly means people understand you more readily and you can stop explaining what you do.

Instead, just say, I wrote this book called X. Think of all the saved explanations!

(4) By completing quickly you acknowledge a new world context: the rate of idea exchange and pace of innovation has increased dramatically.

The role books play in our society has changed. For the most part, they are no longer sacred repositories of facts or information. Think of how Benjamin Franklin must have treasured his physics texts. Books aren’t like that to us anymore - they are more about impact, process, or entertainment and emotion. They don’t have to be ‘right.’ Instead, ‘right now’ is more important.

Completing your (current) book quickly keeps you current in a world that is moving quickly. (Quickly as distinct from ‘in a panic’ mind you.) By learning to complete books/anything quickly and without struggle is a modern day skill or ‘way of being.’

(5) Completing your (current) book material quickly allows you to begin having an impact.

If a brilliant thought occurs in the forest of your own mind, but no one has heard or read it, does it exist? Enough said.

(6) Completing quickly increases (NOT decreases) your chances of capturing the purest most useful insights.

Too much writing suffers from overthinking, in my opinion. There is a purity of idea or thought whose energy is captured when you don’t overanalyze, question or poke and prod from every angle.

You don’t see painters painting over their brush strokes ad infinitum, do you? Changing the shade of a color that’s already painted on, or turning the canvas upside down, right?

(7) Completing quickly activates your right brain.

As if enrolling the right side of your brain to support the left, moving quickly engages your whole brain.

Contrary to what you might think, completing quickly doesn’t equal sloppy thinking or poor quality control.

(8) Completely quickly supports your personal evolution.

Something I’ve observed with first-time authors is it takes them longer to get psychologically ready to be an author, than is really needed to physically write the book. Put it another way: most of the delay in completing a book has to do with the person getting ready to be a ‘published author.’

In this case the inner personal development drives the outer physical goal - a completed book. But in this community of sophisicated and evolved meaning/money seekers, we can look for a greater balance. Allow yourself to physically finish the book (with the right support, of course) and you will find your personal evolution catches up fast…like a rubber band snapping into shape.

(9) Completing your book quickly can - with the right plan - accelerate your way to increased income.

Books usually fall into the ‘ice cream cone’ layer of the Multiple Streames funnel. As a first ‘thing’ folks often buy, books are ambassadors for your other higher-priced items.

(10) Completing your 10-year-old book idea quickly at this juncture in your life is a huge relief, AND it can be a lot of fun.

I liken the ‘complete your book quickly’ process as like dipping an empty cup into a spring of water that is your knowledge and experience. Your life. You are certainly not going to try to push all the springwater into the one cup. So effortlessly and swiftly, visualize yourself filling the cup and splooosh - your cup is full/your book is done.

Besides, there’s always another cup, right?