8 Ways Your Book Coach Gets Results Like Your Fitness Trainer

He’s been dreaming about his book for years.?

“Your story is too good to keep to yourself!” his friends say, demanding that he entertain them once again with his vivid storytelling. “You need a book!”

But how could he write a book when his time and energy went toward a demanding career and busy family?

He knew he would never get it done on his own.

So he contacted me.?

And immediately compared a book coach to a personal trainer.

“Wow, Elizabeth, I just realized,” he said with an awed tone, “working with a book coach is just like the investment I make every month in my health, by paying my personal trainer. When I was going to the cheap gym, I wasn’t motivated. Couldn’t put down the donuts or get off the sofa. I actually gained weight! But when I paid my fitness trainer, I got excited! I show up and do the work. Lost 20 pounds. Gave up crappy food. Feel great. Maybe this is why I haven’t written my book yet. I need somebody to keep me accountable to achieve this huge goal that clearly I’m incapable of getting done by myself.”

It was thrilling to hear this highly accomplished person organically connect the concepts that I’ve been using for years when explaining how and why a book coach can help you write that book you’ve been talking about but never writing.

Book Coaching Works Like Fitness Training

“When you work with a personal trainer, you make a financial investment,” I tell writers. “You set an appointment on your calendar. You commit to showing up. You get there, and they guide you through a tailor-made workout, eating plan, and mindset shift to help you lose weight, feel better, and improve your health. You stay accountable because you’re invested, committed, and monitored. And you get results!”

Then I explain, “Working with a book coach is the same concept. You make a financial investment in your goal. You commit to showing up at the appointments. You get the expert guidance that you lacked alone, and this guidance enables you to create a strategy to write your book, with the mindset shift and methodology you need to achieve this huge goal.”

As someone whose healthy eating and exercise are a nonnegotiable part of my daily routine, and as someone who spends her days writing as CEO of Two Sisters Writing & Publishing, this is a really fun way to emphasize the similarities between your commitment to writing and wellness.?

8 Ways a Book Coach Helps You Succeed

So, here are eight reasons you should consider teaming up with a book coach the same way you’d work with a personal trainer.

1.? ? You’re invested. When you make the financial investment to work with a book coach, you want to earn the greatest ROI, by actually doing the work and accomplishing the dream of writing your book.

2.? ? You’re accountable. A book coach keeps you accountable to your writing goals via live coaching sessions, as well as communications to check on your progress. Now you’re a team, and you’re inspired to perform at your best, by writing those chapters on time to complete your book.

3.? ? ?You make time. Countless unwritten books will never get published by people who declare, “I don’t have time!” Likewise, many overweight, unhealthy people will never look or feel better because they didn’t hire a personal trainer. So, your book coach will help you carve out time in your 24 hours to sit still and write.

4.? ? You commit. It’s easy to break promises to yourself to write (or work out). It’s easy to procrastinate and make everything else a priority above writing, or eating healthier food. It’s easy to never write your book—or change your health habits. But when you work with a book coach, like a personal trainer, you’re officially committing, and that powerful act will inspire you to do what you said you’d do.

5.? ? You get customized guidance. Your book coach does a SWOT analysis to determine your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats—then tailors a strategy to your specific needs. This includes helping you blast past writer’s block, and teaching you writing techniques to really engage your readers with your storytelling. This is just like your personal trainer helping you tame your weakness for donuts while enabling you to avoid the threat that your comfy sofa poses to getting to the gym!

6.? ? You get results! Just like a personal trainer helps you trim and tone, your book coach helps you get results. Your coach will help you see the big picture of your publishing vision, so you can craft a plan for publishing and promotions that are most beneficial for your message and your target audience.

7.? ? You make incremental progress. You don’t get fit in a day, nor do you write a book in a day. It takes time, and repetition. You incrementally burn fat, tone muscles, improve cardiovascular fitness. Likewise, you incrementally write one word at a time, and they all build into scenes, chapters, and ultimately your book. Working with a book coach helps you pace yourself, have patience, and take a “slow and steady wins the race” approach to writing the best book possible.

8.? ? ?You succeed! For many, fitness failure persists without expert help. The same happens with books. So, with the expert guidance of your book coach, you leave the overwhelm, anxiety, and confusion in the past, and relax into your coach’s step by step instruction to help you write, publish, and promote your book with speed, quality, and influence.?

So, get ready to flex your writing muscles! It’s time to pump up the volume on your commitment to writing your book.?

Take the Ready, Set, Write Your Book Challenge!

Take the Ready, Set, Write Your Book Challenge with America’s Book Coach, September 13-16, 2021, to rev you up to write your fiction or nonfiction book. It’s free, it’s fun, and it may be everything you need to blast past whatever’s been holding you back.

All you need is some expert guidance—with a ton of excitement, energy, and enthusiasm—to provide the mindset shift and methodology to help you finally make your book dream come true.?

Learn more about the Ready, Set, Write Your Book Challenge!