This is likely the largest lie that keeps more books off the bookshelves than any other. I like to play a game I call “Reason or Excuse”. Often we will use time constraints as a reason for not writing a book when in actuality it is simply an excuse. Now don’t get me wrong there may be legitimate periods of our life where timing simply is not right to start such a project.

For most however, we tend to think we need to set aside large blocks of time to get our manuscript out of our head and onto a page. The reality for me was that I wrote my book 20 minutes at a time. Some days I was able to string together multiple blocks in a row, other days I was left to narrowly manage to fit in one session. So let me ask you this… could you find 20 minutes a day to do something important?

Perhaps it is 20 minutes less Netflix, 20 minutes less social media. What if you decided to get up 20 minutes earlier each day? Night Owl? How about going to bed 20 minutes later each night?