In 2018, I wrote a book called Dear Writer, You Need to Quit, which was the result of my having coached a couple thousand writers and seeing some patterns coming. The patterns I saw coming are the patterns we’re now in. Where we’re all doing too much, we’re all scared we’re not gonna sell (now…
With burnout in peak form lately, the phrase “no is a complete sentence” has been getting tossed around a lot, and I just want to add the perspective, as someone who coaches success outcomes obsessively, that for many of us, it is not. There are too many skills before the “no” that we don’t have…
I ran across a comment by a very successful author about how hard it was for them to write each book, successively. It was part of a larger conversation, but I wanted to pause for a minute and answer this question I see a lot from writers who thought it should get easier with each…
In every situation, there is an optimal response–a “best” option, one might say. Like a lock and a key. One click, and it is… ahhhh… right. Some of us (might be Strategic, might be Achiever, might be… trauma…) are hard-wired to keep seeking until we find that best. That click. When it is working for…
Every morning, I used to start my day with a song from the Superman (Man of Steel) soundtrack. It’s called “If You Love These People” and it has this “time to go to work now” feel. But it also encourages me to think of myself as the lone Superman fighting evil on my own. Subconsciously,…
Y’know the scene in the Office when Michael Scott walks out and yells, “I declare Bankruptcy!” Remember that? So many of us attack our New Year’s resolutions, and our annual goals like that. We invest a *lot* of our expectations in our decisions and our will to make change. And then we hold ourselves accountable…