The one question that changed everything for me

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What is the one thing you can accomplish in the next twelve months to leap forward in your career by 10 years and change your life forever?

That sounds crazy right?

I mean doing 10 years of work in one year seems impossible. I know I thought it was impossible. I heard that question on a podcast in December of 2017, and I chuckled to myself. I've done a lot of work in a single year before. One year I ran four Kickstarter campaigns. In another, I finished production on two graphic novels. In a third, I did 40 conventions in a year.

Those all shot me forward dramatically, but accomplishing 10 years of work in one year seemed impossible to me.

When I heard that question, I was trying to figure out what my 2018 would look like, how many books I would write, and where I wanted to be in the future. I knew I wanted to make a full-time living on ebook sales alone, but I wasn't in a position to make it work. For many years I had made my living with physical boo…