5 Priceless Rewards for Writing a Book

What are your priceless rewards for writing your book?

Although selling books isn’t a great strategy for wealth-building, few things are more rewarding and fulfilling than publishing a book. You may find that a few of these priceless rewards will motivate you to write (or finish writing) your own book.

1 – Improve lives

“Your book changed my life!”

The most rewarding aspect of publishing a book is when your readers tell you how they have benefitted personally from reading your book.

Through your book, you can improve your readers’ quality of life through inspiring them to take a particular action… teaching them something new… challenging them with a new point of view… or simply by entertaining them and enhancing their imaginations.

What would you like to hear people say about your book after they finish reading it?

2 – Master a topic

I am not aware of a better way to master a topic than to write a book about it. When you commit to writing a book about something, you will find yourself immersed into your topic. Ideas related to your book will come to you while you’re washing dishes. They will come to you while you’re taking a shower. You will become a magnet for ideas that will enhance your book. The world will become a laboratory for developing your book.

I have never learned more about a topic than when I had to teach about it. Assuming your book is well-planned, well-researched, and well-developed, you will become one of the world’s leading authorities on your topic by virtue of writing your book. Assuming you are offering a unique perspective, you probably will become the leading authority on that particular perspective.

3 – Build a brand

Publishing a book will build your personal credibility. If you represent an organization, your book will also build your organization’s credibility.

In other words, books build brands… both personally and corporately.

Let’s imagine that you want to donate $10,000 to one of two nearly-identical nonprofits. Both nonprofits are doing great work and with the utmost integrity.

The only difference between the two is that “Nonprofit #1” sends a book to you that was written by the organization’s founder/CEO. In the book, she teaches on a topic that is related to the type of work being done by her nonprofit. The book includes stories of the lives being changed by her organization as well as a few endorsements from highly-respected leaders.

“Nonprofit #2” has not published a book.

To which nonprofit would you feel more inclined to send your foundation’s $10,000? For most of us, “Nonprofit #1” would be the easy choice (based solely on the information above).

Authors are perceived as having extraordinary expertise and authority in their respective fields. (To be sure, not all authors have written books worthy of this perception. Nevertheless…) This expertise and authority also helps to enhance the brands of the organizations they represent.

4 – Promote other stuff

For most authors, the best use of their book is as a glorified business card. Books don’t usually generate large sums of money, but they are an excellent way to introduce people to other products, services, and ideas that you have to offer. Books are relatively inexpensive to print, but they generate tremendous amounts of trust. This trust is the foundation for gaining higher levels of commitment from people.

5 – Leave a legacy

Having a book to pass along to the next generation may be the only motivation you need to write your book. The books we write will live on long after we are gone.

What are your priceless rewards for writing your book?

Let these priceless rewards inspire you to devote the time and energy necessary for completing your book. The world is waiting.