Clear Steps & Structure To Write Your Story & Touch The Hearts Of Your Readers

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Are you ready, ready to release internal pain to find confidence, clarity and direction for your future, to live a life of meaning, fulfillment and contribution to trust your intuition again, but something's been holding you back, you've come to the right place. Welcome. I'm a Ian Hawkins, the host and founder of The Grief Code podcast. Together, let's heal your unresolved or unknown grief by unlocking your grief code. As you tune into each episode, you will receive insight into your own grief, how to eliminate it and what to do next. Before we start by one request, if any new insights or awareness land with you during this episode, please send me an email at info at the Ian Hawkins coaching.com. And let me know what you found. I know the power of this word, I love to hear the impact these conversations have. Okay, let's get into it.

One of the challenges with taking on any project is when we don't know what it is we're supposed to be doing. We can end up procrastinating getting stuck. Not taking action is nothing like having a clear structure in place to create certainty, that allows you to move through the project quickly, effortlessly and with certainty. So when you're writing your book, there are certain things that if they're in place will allow you to create a story that connects to your ideal client. Of course, within an embodied Foundation. And so, if you think about your story, you're writing your story. Think back of your life, there are so many different stories you could tell. But knowing which is the right story that's going to connect with people that's going to have them telling other people about it is so important. So you have to have that foundational piece. What is the key part of my story? And then you need to unlock what are the elements of that story? What is the journey, there was a golden thread that runs through our story that runs through our life. And we know the golden thread. Because it's very much related to the challenges that we've had and overcome. You see, we never want anyone else to go through what we went through. And tapping into those elements that you did go through and you find yourself just naturally helping other people go through those same things. Just in your day to day life. Sometimes you don't even realize you're doing it, you got so good at it. That golden thread. That's where the magic is. Because someone reading your story will then be like, Oh, it's like, it's like they know me. I can relate because they've been on a similar journey, or the same journey. We also need to be able to connect to the heart of our readers. And so, there are plenty of systems out there for writing a book from a very logical perspective. But when we can tune in intuitively, we can actually connect to a whole new depth connect to the heart and soul of not just our story, but connect to the heart and soul of our readers. In those books that you've read, where you just you just feel it was written for you. And the lessons just seem so obvious. It's not magic. Now imagine what it's like to have your book that's having the same impact for other people. And of course, we need to be able to align to our clients journey. If you become the hero of the story, then many will find that too big. To be a bridge to cross to be a mountain to climb where we looking at your story on Yeah, but but look at look at this person, but they can do that. I can't do that. Instead, when you aligned to their journey where they can see themselves in the story where they can feel themselves be in the story, then then they're engaged. Then they actually want to take action because they feel like they can, they can see the steps. I know what to do. Now we'll walk with anything, we need a blueprint. And the blueprint for your story. Once you have that clarity around the, the key parts of the story, you need to have a structure for the actual writing, need a strategy and a blueprint. And taking those elements that you've pulled out of your story to know what's going to touch their heart, then it's about putting it in order so that people will understand. You may also think as you listen to this go, this is true of a story that goes for one page, or goes for 1000 pages. And it's true. So whether you're ready to write a book, or you just want to be able to write more in a way that connects to people, then it's the same process. And of course, so important, if you're going to take the time to write something that you want people to read, you need to know how to reach them. You need to know how to have your story in front of the right people in front of the eyeballs. Who are meant to read your story, who the story was written for, that your book was written for. And when these things are in place, that's when you start getting that feedback. You might hear from someone and they'd be like, I've been reading your stuff for five years. And it's got me out of so many dark places. Or registery. And I could totally connected with it. And it inspired me to take a new path, these kind of messages. Because ultimately, when we create anything, anything, we do it for us. But there's nothing while the validation and satisfaction and fulfillment when we know that it's reached the right people, and they've been impacted by that. There's nothing like that. So if you're at that point where you are ready to write, and you know that you need to make time for it. Consider these elements that I've spoken about today. And you'll be well on the way to writing story, a story or stories allow you to feel that level of fulfillment.

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