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    The Prosperous Author-How to Make a Living With Your Writing: Developing A Millionaire Mindset (Prosperity for Authors Series Book 1)
    The Prosperous Author-How to Make a Living With Your Writing: Developing A Millionaire Mindset (Prosperity for Authors Series Book 1)
    The Prosperous Author-How to Make a Living With Your Writing: Developing A Millionaire Mindset (Prosperity for Authors Series Book 1)
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    The Prosperous Author-How to Make a Living With Your Writing: Developing A Millionaire Mindset (Prosperity for Authors Series Book 1)

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    Create the ultimate mindset: The 5-Step Blueprint to True Success
    Do you want to make a living from your writing?
    Do you believe it's possible to thrive as a writer?

    Developing a prosperous mindset is the foundation skill from which all else follows.

    Bestselling author, award-winning artist, holistic psychologist creativity expert Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip Psych) challenges the myth of the starving artist. In The Prosperous Author: Developing A Millionaire Mindset Gaisford reveals dozens of insights based on survey research, her professional achievements and the success secrets of extraordinary artists, authors and creative entrepreneurs like James Patterson, Paulo Coelho, Nora Roberts, Arianna Huffington, Oprah, Isabel Allende, and many more.

    So many famous stories are about having belief in yourself and achieving your potential. But in many of us there is a hesitant skeptical part of ourselves that knows, “I probably should believe in myself more, but what if I am deluding myself? What if I’m not good enough?”

    Perhaps you’ve bought into the myth that you can’t make money from your writing. For years, the fallacy of the starving artist has pervaded our culture, leaching into the minds of creative people and stifling their dreams. But the evidence-based truth is that the world’s most successful authors and artists do not starve. In fact, they thrive by leveraging off the power of their millionaire mindset and capitalizing on their creative strengths.

    The Prosperous Author: Developing A Millionaire Mindset is a blueprint for mastering five principles of success. By fuelling your desire, empowering your vision, slaying obstacles, mastering your subconscious mind, maintaining optimum health, empowering your relationships, making a commitment to turn pro, you’ll elevate your attitude to success itself and create the ultimate mindset.

    In The Prosperous Author: Developing A Millionaire Mindset Cassandra Gaisford answers the question: How can you thrive as an artist, entrepreneur or business person, create success on your own terms, and live a happier life? Gaisford shows us that being prosperous is not just about money. It’s also about health, happiness, close relationships, living a meaningful life, and enjoying life’s journey.

    If you’d love to find a way to create a living from your writing, if you suffer from self-doubt or fear of failure, if you constantly need approval from others, if you lack confidence or self-esteem, if you’re a perfectionist or find the challenges of creative life overwhelming...then The Prosperous Author: Developing A Millionaire Mindset is exactly the right book for you—because it will show you that these challenges are a critical part of your success. The secret is knowing how to use them to your advantage, to turn your world around and achieve your goals.

    In The Prosperous Author: Developing A Millionaire Mindset Gaisford reveals:

    ✓The secrets to developing a prosperous mindset
    ✓How to master simple strategies to unlock your potential
    ✓How to overcome the fears that stop you from reaching your fullest potential
    ✓How to fight through your blocks and win your inner creative battles
    ✓How to steal from your heroes (rather than waiting for inspiration)
    ✓How to take strategic risks (rather than reckless ones)
    ✓How to overcome your fear of failure, criticism, and change...
    ✓How to whip anxiety, despondency, and depression into shape
    ✓How to overcome inertia, block and the resistance of a blank page
    ✓How to identify real priorities that are central to your life and work’s true meaning
    ✓How to turn pro, tap your inner power and create your life's work

    Real artists don't starve. Gaisford shows that by following the 5-Step blueprint to true success making a living from your writing is not only doable but it’s also a fulfilling way to live.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMollie Mathews
    Release dateJun 16, 2017
    ISBN9780994148407
    The Prosperous Author-How to Make a Living With Your Writing: Developing A Millionaire Mindset (Prosperity for Authors Series Book 1)
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    Cassandra Gaisford

    Cassandra Gaisford, is a holistic psychologist, award-winning artist, and #1 bestselling author. A corporate escapee, she now lives and works from her idyllic lifestyle property overlooking the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. Cassandra is best known for the passionate call to redefine what it means to be successful in today’s world. She is a well-known expert in the area of success, passion, purpose and transformational business, career and life change, and is regularly sought after as a keynote speaker, and by media seeking an expert opinion on career and personal development issues.  Cassandra has also contributed to international publications and been interviewed on national radio and television in New Zealand and America.  She has a proven-track record of success helping people find savvy ways to boost their finances, change careers, build a business or become a solopreneur—on a shoestring. Cassandra’s unique blend of business experience and qualifications (BCA, Dip Pych.), creative skills, and well-ness and holistic training (Dip Counselling, Reiki Master Teacher) blends pragmatism and commercial savvy with rare and unique insight and out-of-the-box-thinking for anyone wanting to achieve an extraordinary life. ​

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      The Prosperous Author-How to Make a Living With Your Writing - Cassandra Gaisford

      The Prosperous Author: How to Make a Living With Your Writing

      The Prosperous Author: How to Make a Living With Your Writing

      Developing A Millionaire Mindset

      Cassandra Gaisford

      Blue Giraffe

      Contents

      THE PROSPEROUS AUTHOR:

      Praise for The Prosperous Author

      Also by the Author

      Free Gift

      Epilogue

      Author’s Note

      Introduction

      YOUR MILLIONAIRE MIND

      1. What Is Prosperity?

      2. What Do You Believe?

      3. Your Money Blueprint

      4. Cultivate A Success Mindset

      5. Elevate Your Energy

      6. Boost Your Self-Awareness

      7. Create A New Life Story

      8. Take Your Chance

      9. Blossom

      CULTIVATE A BURNING DESIRE

      10. The Power Of Passion

      11. Find Your Purpose

      12. A Vision Of Victory

      13. Dream Big

      14. What Makes You Happy?

      15. Imagine Better

      16. Protect Your Dream

      17. Find Your Vibe Tribe

      18. Create A New Destiny

      19. Make Space For Prosperity

      TURNING PRO

      20. Reality Check

      21. Understand The Rules

      22. Daily Habits

      23. Fill A Need

      24. Finish What You Start

      25. Knock The Bugger Off

      26. Show Your Work

      27. Write With Confidence

      28. Plan For Success

      29. Maintain Your Faith

      YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR WEALTH

      30. Protect Your Mental Health

      31. Stress Less

      32. Be Mindful

      33. Sleep Your Way To The Top

      34. Move Inside Out

      35. Mindfood

      36. You Booze, You Lose

      37. Just Add Water

      38. Maintain Some Balance

      39. Real Resilience

      SLAYING OBSTACLES

      40. Allow No Doubt

      41. Finance Your Writing Career

      42. Fight For Your Dreams

      43. Shifting Self-Limiting Beliefs

      44. Hypnotize Your Millionaire Mind

      45. Just Do It

      46. Take The Procrastination Challenge

      47. Keep Your Deadlines Sacred

      48. Focus

      49. Consult The Oracles

      50. Journal Your Way To Success

      51. Make Mistakes

      52. Accent The Positive

      53. Change Your Brain With Music

      54. Patient Perseverance

      55. Cultivate Hope

      56. Chase The Light

      57. Good Enough

      CONCLUSION

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      Also by Cassandra Gaisford

      Additional Help from Cassandra

      Coaching Offer

      Further Resources

      Stay In Touch

      Acknowledgments

      THE PROSPEROUS AUTHOR:

      How to Make a Living with Your Writing

      Book One: Developing A Millionaire Mindset

      Cassandra Gaisford, BCA, Dip Psych

      Praise for The Prosperous Author

      "What I really like about The Prosperous Author is that it is a great book to read before you even put pen to paper. There are a zillion books on the market which tell us how to market and publish our books. This book stands apart from the rest in that it gets your head in the right mindset to create the best possible book.

      The Prosperous Author is overflowing with wonderful, motivating and thought-provoking quotes from bestselling and award-winning authors as samples and inspiration. This may be Cassandra’s finest book yet."

      ~ Mimi Emmanuel, author of The Holy Grail of Book Publishing

      "Cassandra Gaisford has molded a helpful resource in her latest publication The Prosperous Author. Together with helpful ideas encouraging readers to believe in their writing, or in my case in my project, she also presents challenges to motivate the reader, well-chosen examples of successful writers, and honest offerings of her own journey.

      This book provides well-researched ideas to support anyone who has a dream to believe in themselves and go for gold and develop that dream into reality. It is not just for writers, it is for all of us who have a golden nugget of a dream and want to bring it to full creation."

      ~ Catherine Sloan, counselor

      A lot of great insights on how to become a more positive, passionate and prosperous writer. I loved the second part of the book, ‘Cultivate a Burning Desire.’ It really motivates me and inspires me to see how successful writers think and act. I like the resources and ideas Cassandra Gaisford gave throughout. There were also some great quotes that I liked a lot. I’ll definitely refer back to this book in the future to assist me on my personal journey to become a prosperous writer!

      ~ Thibaut Meurisse, blogger

      "Author Cassandra Gaisford has brought a much needed book to the self-publishing market. The author of the popular Mid-Life Career Rescue series has published multiple books on Amazon and is now sharing her secrets as a successful author in this latest book, The Prosperous Author: How to Make a Living With Your Writing.

      The Prosperous Author is a great read that really dives into the mindset of what it means to not just prosper financially but to live a successful and well-balanced life based on health, happiness and close relationships. This book is definitely for the reader who lacks self-esteem and wants more of it, wants to overcome perfectionism, or has doubt and uncertainty and needs to break beyond these barriers. The Prosperous Author can show you how to do all of that.

      This book really has a positive impact on one’s mindset. As the author points out in her key message throughout the book, mindset is at the core of all our success. It creates emotion and motivation. It brings us up or keeps us down.

      The book wastes no time and jumps right into ‘the millionaire mindset.’ We can learn how to think like a millionaire and how to develop the strategies and apply them to our life for attracting more influence and money. By programming your subconscious beliefs, you are rewiring your own brain for success. The author teaches us to nurture our thoughts and cast out the negative seeds that are growing there. We can see that attitude is everything.

      Energy is another great topic discussed. We can boost our energy by cutting away the relationships and negative influences holding us back. This is one of my favorite chapters in the book. We can ‘relive our life story’ too, by imagining the life that we could have instead of the life that we wished we had had. Then, in the chapter ‘Blossom,’ we learn to pay attention to divine creativity, intuition, and signs of manifestation.

      Cassandra gets into the topic of passion and we can see how cultivating a passionate lifestyle frees us up to pursue life’s gifts; and to craft our writing into a solid piece of reading material. Write with your purpose and the words will flow much easier.

      This book really hits home for me as an author and someone who is dedicated to carving out purpose, passion and a life of more wealth and health. Every chapter ends with a positive wrap-up [‘Mining for Gold’] of the important lessons learned.

      The other great chapters will teach you how to:

      Dream big, create a new destiny and turn a profit as a successful author. My favorite chapters here are:

      Keeping deadlines. Without deadlines, how can we get our work finished? There are solid strategies here for doing just that. As Cassandra points out as well, we can become prosperous authors by journaling our way to success, staying focused on the task, keeping doubt out, sticking with perseverance, and believing in yourself to get the job done.

      This book is well-written, structured and serves as an excellent resource for authors and people looking to fill up their lives with positivity for achieving their goals and objectives.

      A definite ‘Good Read’ recommendation."

      ~ Scott Allan, author of Do It Scared

      Also by the Author

      The Prosperous Author:

      Developing a Millionaire Mindset

      Productivity Hacks: Do Less & Make More

      Mid-Life Career Rescue:

      The Call for Change

      What Makes You Happy

      Employ Yourself

      3 Book Box Set: The Call for Change, What Makes You Happy, Employ Yourself

      The Art of Living:

      How to Find Your Passion and Purpose

      Career Rescue: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life

      Boost Your Self-Esteem and Confidence

      The Art of Success:

      Leonardo Da Vinci

      Coco Chanel

      Journalling Prompts Series:

      The Passion-Driven Business Planning Journal

      Health & Happiness:

      The Happy, Healthy Artist

      Stress Less. Love Life More

      Bounce: Overcoming Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy

      Money Manifestation

      Financial Rescue: The Total Money Makeover: Create Wealth, Reduce Debt & Gain Freedom

      More of Cassandra’s practical and inspiring workbooks on a range of career and life enhancing topics can be found on her website (www.cassandragaisford.com) and here—Author.to/CassandraGaisford

      Copyright © 2017 Cassandra Gaisford

      The right of Cassandra Gaisford to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988 (and under any comparable provision of any jurisdiction whatsoever).

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author or publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      If you would like to share this eBook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please respect the author’s hard work and purchase your own copy.

      Cover by Cassandra Gaisford

      Stock Photo: Shutterstock

      Published by Blue Giraffe Publishing 2017

      Blue Giraffe Publishing is a division of Worklife Solutions Ltd.

      www.worklifesolutions.nz

      ISBN 978-0-9941484-0-7

      First Edition

      Created with Vellum Created with Vellum

      For Lorenzo

      whose mantra

      Show me the money!

      inspires me to succeed.

      Free Gift

      As a thank you for reading The Prosperous Author I’m excited to give you another book for FREE!

      Find Your Passion Workbook

      Click below and let me know where to send your free guide from my #1 Amazon bestselling book, How to Find Your Passion and Purpose: Four Easy Steps to Discover a Job You Want and Live the Life You Love.

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      I hope you enjoy it—it's dedicated to helping you live and work with passion and purpose, and find joy, happiness, and fulfilment. I hope you gain some ideas to help you follow your passion to prosperity.

      Epilogue

      There Will Come a Moment …

      When your life begins to unfold with new and wonderful events, there will come a moment that you will be in awe, wonder, and utter wakefulness when you realize it was your mind that created them. In your rapture, you will look back from this vantage point at your entire life, and you will not want to change anything. You will not regret any action or feel bad about whatever has happened to you, because in that moment of your manifestation, it will all make sense to you. You will see how your past got you to this great state.

      ~ Dr. Joe Dispenza, author

      Author’s Note

      I’ve been a published non-fiction writer for over ten years, penning articles for newspapers and magazines. Most of the time I wrote for free. My motivation? I wanted to provide helpful tips and strategies for people who couldn’t afford my coaching and psychology fees.

      I also started writing inspirational workbooks for career and life coaching clients who were sent to me for help by their workplaces—but only given two or three paid hours of support. Early on, before Kindle became the phenomenon that it is now, I began thinking of ways I could help more people with my words of self-help

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