What will your life look and feel like a year from now when you are an author?
What if you don’t become an author - what does that look and feel like a year from now?
I’m not gonna sugar coat it.
If you do not write a book your impact on this world will be less than it should and CAN be.
You’re here reading this because becoming an Author changed my life in more ways than I could have ever imagined. Doors opened. My confidence soared. Powerful mentors found me. My income grew. All because I wrote that damn first book! (In 2026 I wrote books #7 and #8!)
In 2014 I hired a business coach after hearing him speak at an event. I felt connected to him because I could relate to the stories he shared about his life on stage. His stories - not how smart he was or the letters behind his name - made me TAKE ACTION.
It wasn’t just his relatability. It was because he wrote a book…
Three books, actually. As soon as I knew he was an Author, he became a bigger deal in my mind. Then he described how becoming an Author impacted his career and I felt like he was talking directly to me - like there was no one else in the room.
I remember feeling like, “Lyndsie, this door that has opened for you. All you need to do is walk through it and you can enjoy all the success this man is describing.” It was like on the TV show Queen of The South when Teresita’s future self appears in a white suit, looking all successful and rich, to help her make sense of an opportunity or course correction.
Do you dream about working from tropical places around the world?
That was my dream while my son was growing up. For 10 years I worked my butt off to create a business I could run from anywhere. When he graduated from high school in Cochrane, Alberta in June 2024, I had my sights set on November when I would skip cold Canadian winter in tropical Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
There was no way I was spending my first empty nest winter without beaches and sunshine. Distractions from the fact that I no longer had a son in high school, playing hockey and football and stressing me out or making me laugh every day, were necessary.
I lived and worked in Playa del Carmen with my border collie steps from the beach for five whole months. Every time someone said to me, “Must be nice!” I would clarify:
I MADE THIS HAPPEN. I CHOSE THIS. I DID THE WORK.
The #1 reason for doing the work: my son.
What’s your reason?
Want to live and work near a beach every winter? Show your son that his mom makes awesome shit happen? Travel the world changing lives from stage, leaving behind copies of YOUR BOOK?
Don’t discount the power of your stories.
Do the work. Turn your stories into a book that lives on forever and makes you feel more proud than ever before.