Yes, I find it hard to believe too
How did a dude who barely scraped past his GCSE's become a writer?
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…. Cue iconic Star Wars music
Ok cut cut, wrong galaxy, let's come back to earth.
In my first blog, I mentioned that I dealt with a lot of imposter syndrome. “I can't do this”, “I'm not good enough” and so on. While I still dance with these thoughts every day, one thing I always remind myself is, they are just thoughts.
Thoughts have no power until you empower them
So back to the question, how did a guy like me end up writing a book?
The honest answer? My bank account.
If you know me then I'm sure you expected that answer but if not well, I hope it didn't disappoint haha. It's interesting what the mind can do when rent is on the line. I thought I should write this blog at the end of the Month though, maybe as some encouragement or hopefully to inspire someone to just go for it in life regardless of their situation.
So here we go!
Earlier this year I wanted to make some guitar courses and material (I still plan to), I had it all planned, I would be a millionaire by the end of the year, right? RIGHT?
Unfortunately, discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Life will not listen to you if you do not have this. Now as I've said before, I barely passed my school exams, I had more discipline playing video games with my best friend at 5 am rather than revising. It was only the fear of my mother's wrath that pushed me to pass my exams. That or the Examiners couldn't read my handwriting and thought “This guy might have said the right answer in a different language so we'll pass him”.
Although I may suck at writing, I've come to learn that I am an awesome teacher. When I came to this realization, I didn't have to think like a writer. All I had to do was think like a teacher and I've been teaching guitar for over a year now so it's easy for me.
“Thoughts have no power until you empower them”
Just by changing my mindset to teaching mode, it made my task of writing a book 100000000x more easier. I encourage you to do the same with anything else you might have to do. A lot of the time we sabotage ourselves by not knowing how to control our minds without even being aware.
I'm starting to sound like Yoda…
Mindset was down so how do we get started? Well I remember finishing work and being on call with my brother Antony who owns an awesome seamoss business.
https://www.iamdivergent.org/products/seamoss-gel
I said “Bro, how do you start all of this, what do I do”
He said “Just start and figure it out along the way, don't think too much”
And really, it is that simple.
I thought, “Will I make back the money to pay rent if I buy this website then pay for a Visme subscription as well as pay for this then that blah blah”, - and that's how you end up not doing anything. So I bit the bullet and got the tools I needed having faith it would work out and I'd make more than what I invested in.
Now after mindset and faith, the most important ingredient was discipline. Something I am either awesome with or terribly bad at. Knowing yourself is important. I can work for hours on end but when I eat I know I will want to fall asleep and not work for the rest of the day. When I started writing the book I did a dry fast for around 41 hours. (I ate when I realized I would have a student who would test my patience later that next day haha). I noticed though that while my body was dying for food, it went into survival mode, “Must make book asap to make money to get food” and thus I saw the dormant genius inside of me that decided to show up when it wasn't being fed.
During that time I developed a deeper sense of clarity, the mind goes from thinking about food to “How can I better myself” and while I had my Visme tabs open my mind thought “Okay how can we make this book the best thing ever”.
In 4 days I wrote 78 pages of guitar stuff.
What does this mean?
It means I must train my body and mind to think like a millionaire who lives abroad and is living his best life next year. Even if I don't hit that, I'm sure I'll hit something close enough!
This will be a short blog, I just wanted to share my two cents and show how I went about this. I don't want to seem like a life coach or self-help guru who's on a pedestal telling everyone how awesome he is. I want to share what has worked for me so far, whether that be in life or music.
Anyway, it would be weird for me to not share my book after all of that.
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I have bigger things planned towards the end of this year so stay tuned.
Thank you all dearly who have supported me so far, I have much more to share with you guys.
Peace