If You Don’t Believe It, Why Would Anybody Else?

Last August was when I finally took action on my dream and self-published my first eBook. I thought all I had to do was write it and put it out to the world and people would buy it, whoops!

As the days went on without a single sale I got more and more crushed, I felt like a totally failure. During this time I would go to my day job and people would ask about the book and I would just put my head down.

As I would go to new places and talk to people they would ask me what I did, I wanted to say I was an author but I had no sales, right? So I would tell them about my bread business, I was accepting defeat.

It wasn’t until I went to the Brendon Burchard conference and I had an experience on the subway in New York that it finally became clear. I had heard Jeff Goins say it several times but I guess I didn’t believe it:

When are you a writer? When you say you’re a writer.

I did start to eventually see a few sales but the sales didn’t determine if I was a writer or not, I had to believe it!

Do you believe it?

I don’t know what your dreams are and I don’t know where you are in the process but if you’re going to successful in chasing your dreams, then you have to believe it. Even your family and friends won’t believe in you the way they should, you have to believe it first.

When you don’t believe it you’ll have a lack of self-confidence and it will show in everything you do, that moment you hit that first hurdle, you’ll be done and start making excuses as to why it can never work.

I’ve talked about my friend Will and his BBQ business, he had researched it and talked about it but a couple of months ago was when he really started to believe it. You could hear the difference in how he talked and how he tell’s everyone who will listen about his BBQ business. He believe’s it and now nothing will stop him.

Have you believed in your dreams?

Maybe you haven’t even started because you just don’t believe it’s possible, I have to call you out and tell you that you’re wrong. I was crushed when no one bought my book and I lost hope but now I’m sitting here eight months later with a publishing contract.

It wasn’t easy and I fell and will fall many times but what separates those that are successful from everyone else is that they get back up, I want to be one of those people who always gets back up. I pray that you’ll also be one of those people who always gets back up!

Do you believe your dreams?