Oct 16, 2018 | Audience, Author Tips, Recommendations
In keeping with this month’s focus on “getting things done,” let’s talk about how to handle email. Have you noticed that the inbox is reaching crisis proportions? The ease of email causes people to be careless about how they use it. It’s SO easy to dash off an...
Oct 3, 2018 | Author Tips, Recommendations, Writing
Are you having a hard time taking the first step of writing your chapter, article, or blog? Concrete skills can often give you confidence and motivation to help you take the first steps, so let’s look at some specific techniques for the starting point: your...
Aug 15, 2018 | Author Tips, Blog, Blogging
When I was a kid, my mom was on me all the time about keeping my room clean. You see, I was a complete and utter mess. More than once, my mom threatened to take a match to my room since that would be the easiest way of cleaning it up. So I cannot tell you what a...
Jun 27, 2018 | Author Tips, Communicator Academy, Recommendations
I could write the best book here. Bird calls break the sleepy silence as a golden sky heralds the rising sun. Right outside my window, trees burst with pink and white blossoms. Stirring chocolate creamer into my coffee, I smile with certainty. I could write the best...
Jun 16, 2018 | Author Tips, Creativity, Writing
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” (African Proverb). OK friends. We’ve got this. The 5×5 challenge. If you’ve read my blog post about how I write 500 words a day, you, like a bunch of you who have messaged me, might have been...
Jun 13, 2018 | Author Tips, Pursuing Your Dreams, Writing
TV has done us wrong… If you’ve watched any show featuring a writer in the last twenty years, all you have to do is put out a column once a week (I’m looking at you Carrie Bradshaw), and then hang out with your friends in bars or coffee shops talking about how the men...
