Years ago,
I was approached to contribute
to a multi-author series.
The series was certain to increase my sales
but it was to be written
in first person,
something I’d never done.
My first instinct was to say ‘no’.
What if I couldn’t do this?
I suppressed that reaction,
said ‘yes’ to the opp,
and
THEN figured out how to write
in first person.
The two stories I hit
the USA Today Bestseller lists with
were written in first person.
“I met her and I said
—I didn’t have a TV show—
but I said, ‘Look, I have this TV show.’
Two months later she said,
‘Yeah, we want to start airing
this next month.’
I was like, ‘Great!
I don’t have a TV show!'”
As entrepreneurs,
we’ll be approached with projects
and opportunities
that we might not know
how to complete.
Consider saying ‘yes’ first
and THEN you can figure out
how to do it.