Blog Category: Writing

“I have to make a confession to you,” I said. “At first, I was a little reluctant – and this is when I first started the podcast. Someone suggested I should have you on. I was a little reluctant because someone told me you say yes to everything.” “And at the time, I was writing a […]

Episode 72: The Conversation In Your Head Before becoming an idea machine, I was boring. I was trapped in my head. I thought about the same problems over and over again: divorce, losing my job, going broke, losing my kids, being alone, drunken homelessness. I had no ideas. “We never get bored of our thoughts,” […]

Ask yourself, “Am I feeling stressed?” Don’t think about your answer. Don’t judge it. Just recognize it. Recognize your stress. Say, “I notice I am feeling stressed.” Scan your body. Think about your feet. Can you feel them? Can you feel the souls of your feet? Breathe. You feel what you think. If you’re mentally stressed, […]

I’m ordinary.Any ordinary person can create extraordinary change.I qualify. You qualify, too. I learned this reading The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change by Adam Braun. It’s a story about purpose. I don’t believe in having a life’s purpose. I said this before.But that doesn’t mean you can’t have […]

“I’m on track to make about $40,000 just from this month,” says Steven Scott, a self-publishing tycoon. I am blown away by Steven’s success and so excited to share with you his secrets. His advice made a huge impact on my self-publishing career. You need two things: habit and authority. First: habit. Writing is a habit. […]

It’s a question many of us are too afraid to answer… “Is this as good as it gets?” Perhaps you feel that way from time to time. You get stuck in an unfulfilling job. You get stuck with a mortgage you can barely pay, in a house that didn’t make you any happier than your […]