You should write a book.
Filed under: Getting to New Zealand, Property & General Investing, The Book and Website
I had to pop the car into the garage today – to get the tyres replaced. The staff in there all know we are property investors, and like to keep up to date with our “exploits” and see how we are doing.
Well we haven’t seen them for a while (which is unusual the rate at which our car demands attention), so they were really interested to know how excited we were at the prospect of falling interest rates. So after five minutes of general chit chat about the state of the economy and how its all going to hell in a handbasket (or not) – one of them said “You should write a book”.
And I said: “I have!”
The look on their face was wonderful. They are very used to the “Odd Brit Family” and our sometimes weird ways – and they think it’s wonderful that we chose to come here and make a new life. We usually end up chatting about the differences in where we come from, and they are just chuffed that we have chosen their little corner of the world to make our own.
You know – I’ve never known anyone who actually wrote a book, not until I came here and got to know a bunch of property investors and work with a Mentor. Now, I know 3 other people – two of them Kiwis and the other a Migrant from Zimbabwe. I think that there is something about New Zealand that just makes people get up and go after what they want. They don’t wait for someone to give them permission to have a dream – they just go for it. All four of us have Self – Published – using the same local company here in New Zealand.
So – why write a book? Well, for me it came down to: why not? Time and again on the Forums, people have suggested I do it, and when I started working with a Mentor, he told me to buck up my ideas and get on with it. It’s not been an easy road, and often quite scary, but there you go. It’s almost ready, just getting those last little bits sorted out so that hopefully you won’t see any spelling mistakes.
So if there is something you think you can do – I also encourage you to go for it. There may be the odd person who doesn’t want you to. Especially with your dream to emigrate. It is such a big step, and it is often the case that someone in your life will struggle with the whole idea of you leaving them behind. But sometimes you just have to do what you have to do despite that.
If you need help – ask for it. If you have doubts – find someone who has been there, done it, and got the T-shirt. And if you have something you think other people need to know – well – you could always write a book 
One of the books mentioned above is Adam Baird’s Take The Plunge Now.
You can download a free copy of Chapter 2 to try it out.
[Edited 22/12/2009, Adam's website is now down and doesn't talk about the 'Take the plunge now' book]
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