Why Other People Get Ahead Faster Than You Do

This is the best advice I received before my book was published last year.

Be careful of people that put prerequisites in your way.

You see, I’d been dreaming of writing a book for years and years. However, I had been listening to the experts.

According to the experts, I needed a massive online following in order to write a book that would sell well.

I needed tens of thousands of Twitter followers.

Copious YouTube subcribers

And oh, let’s not forget the holy grail – an email list.

Without these prerequisites, they said, writing a book would be hard.

I shared these concerns with my sister and that’s when she said those magic words to me.

Be careful of people that put prerequisites in your way.

I immediately saw that it was possible to write, publish, and sell my book even without these things in place.

And that’s exactly what I went on to do.

Till this day, I can look at my book and be proud because I did it my way. I enjoyed the process. It was not hard.

So if there’s something you’ve been meaning to do, I’m just passing along her advice.

Be careful of people that put prerequisites in your way because while you’re busy following “the rules”, other people are doing what makes sense and moving on up in life.