 When I first started coaching people, I was actually incredibly surprised by how many people had wanted to write a book in their life But if you look at the stats for the number of people that want to write a book and the number of people that actually write a book It's like 88% or something want to write a book, but very very few actually do Now in this video, I want to share the process I've used at this point write five books two of which have been full-length books in print and audio and in Kindle online and I want to share the process I've used consistently write what I think are pretty good books in the marketplace that have all performed really really well and Helped a lot of people What's up guys Alex Hein author of the book master the day now one of the big things that has helped me put together my books Has been the process of journaling to not only get clear on what I'm doing in my life and with my goals But also to figure out how do I actually create a book that has a masterpiece in terms of The written quality and how it sells so if you want I've included in the first link in the description a free journaling worksheet As well as an email course. That's how to use journaling to figure out your life and become more successful So the first step for me in actually creating an amazing book is the inspired idea You know when I first wrote my first book master the day the idea came to me in the way that an intuition often does It was one of those things where I was like I really have to write this I've been coaching a lot of clients and I was answering the same questions over and over and over again And I was also trying to explain how the same habit advice we use to lose weight Is it the same thing you can use to improve your finances your relationships your happiness anything? And so my idea was oh, I should write a book that links them all together my goal-setting philosophy of life And so I think for you if you're looking to write the book, what is that inspired idea that is exciting you? You know instead of trying to figure out like what's the book that my business company YouTube channel needs? You just think like what is the exciting book? What's the book you want to read? What is the cool book? That's the first thing because of course it begins with the idea now The second thing here is write the table of contents before you write the book. This is humongous I meet so many people that I've actually coached through writing their own books and they get stuck with writer's block Structuring the book where do you start and the reality is that if you start? Facing your computer every day with the monumental task of writing a book It's going to be very difficult to start but if instead you're going through the table of contents and you're like, huh? What is my big? What's the big idea of my book? Huh? What's principle number one of my big idea? Huh? What's principle number two of my big idea principle number three four and five? So for example, you can look at the way that I structured my book where it's broken into two parts the first part is in general the prologue and What I call the four inner horsemen of the health apocalypse These are the things that hold people back from building their best life and from getting fit So I go into horsemen one two three and four and then part two is Really these nine success habits I learned from helping people lose weight and improve their life and turn it around So the first part is what holds you back the second part is what will set you free? You could apply that framework to basically any niche or any topic And then the second part is we go through habit one habit two habit three and so on and so forth And once you have that table of contents written all you do each day is break it down and you fill it in The third piece is the chapter headlines now the thing with each chapter is you don't want it to just be chapter one Chapter two chapter three unless you're writing a fiction book a story book if you're writing a book That's like how to improve your life or specific for your industry or your niche Then make them interesting, you know make the titles like look at the titles of my book It's like that for a reason what no one tells you about looking and feeling amazing The big secret what I learned interviewing people that lost over a hundred pounds The four inner horsemen of the health apocalypse the most priceless gift in the world Like these are you should be able to flip through the book, but whoa this sounds interesting I know that sounds kind of obvious, but there's a lot of books. I flipped you and it's just like The same old same old the fourth thing is to begin your chapters with a simple format Which is you tell a story and then you give an action step The most easy format you can apply is let's say your book is about how to get more website traffic You tell a story I started a knitting blog and it sucked and I hated my job And I wanted to quit but nothing was working and then I did the strategy and then look how awesome my life is now Cuz I quit my job and then you teach the strategy Now in this in Master of the day for example the first book I wrote every chapter is usually giving examples or being specific like this is what this person did like Lawrence old jeans or how this person stops being a perfectionist and then got results And then you teach the principle because that way you're not just like talking Stories are naturally engaging and they're definitely the way that really it makes the book easily flow And that's the thing when you're reading it you feel the flow now the fifth part of writing a great book is Having a timeless quality So there are a lot of books that are written that are great for the times today You know their books that will help you improve some specific aspect of life But they're very time-sensitive like books written about a certain modern celebrity Books written about a certain event in history or books written about like internet Tactics and tricks to grow your online business. We don't know where that'll be in 10 years But look at the books that stand the test of time look at old-school personal development books Spiritual books the Bible the Dao De Jing the Dhamma Pada All these books are timeless in their information So if you're writing a book unless it is related to a specific niche try to create a timeless quality No one remembers the things from a book on 51 ways to lose weight 51 ways to grow website traffic 51 ways to get her love People don't remember those things right they want the one thing They want the one unifying principle in your book and so if you can arrange it around almost like a thesis sentence Like you remember writing papers in high school. What's the big idea each book should have a big idea It's called master the day the big idea is you look at the habits you do every day and that was deliberate That was the whole point creating a title that served as the mnemonic device that you can reflect back on and be like Yes, that book gave me this very specific insight and this is how it's changed my life Cool. I hope that helps you guys now, of course Don't forget the first link in the description is how I used journaling So not only figure out what to do with my life But to become more successful to write all of my books and to do all of that really before the age of 30 So if you like you can check out the first link in the description Get that free journaling sheet and the email course and you can check out my last two videos right there and right there