According to the gurus, the first step in creating the world you want, where you achieve success, wisdom and meaningful happiness, is finding that perfect book. It explains every detail about how to set up your day, identify struggles, provide solutions and how to complete the ultimate reward cycle. Best of all, it makes it sound so easy to have your perfect life.
Good luck with that.
Trying to find answers about your life written by someone you will never meet is like trying to win the lottery. Popular books based on ‘science’ are peer reviewed for a reason. Write ups about participants who got paid to sit through manufactured experiments by people being paid to publish or perish should be questioned before absorbing. And the tear-jerking stories about someone who has never had to deal with all the things you are dealing with, means that, although it pulls at your heart-strings, it will not be a perfect fit. Stop confusing other people’s marketable results with what you are supposed to be doing.
Reading a hundred books in a hundred days will not answer your dreamy desires because the real answer is this…
You need to write it yourself.
We are all unique. We want and can do a combination of things which cannot be duplicated. We are not clones. We are not NPCs. Existing ideas from the past might help give guidance, but you need to work out specific solutions by trying, evaluating, rejecting and adapting for yourself.
Your book does not need to look like anything else on the shelf. You only need to create what works for you. A day planner which details every minute with trackers and colour coding that shows everything you feel. Or a daily diary for describing everything that happens –> just start with a simple notebook, or write a sticky note for each day or go buy the most beautiful hardcover and start creating your masterpiece. You can also start a blog with photos, videos and little notes that are all very unique to you. Or you could make your own PROOF.
You can read for knowledge, perspective and escapism.
But you need to write for clarity.
Whatever method you use to get those ideas out of your head, take the time to re-read your words and learn from yourself.
When you explain what you want to do and why, then try it and see what is working or not… you create a unique blueprint for your success. You will see patterns and begin to understand what you need to do in order to get things done.
No one else can do this for you.
Take ideas from everywhere, but make the best storybook ever by creating your own.
Kelea Quinn 