There’s this brief moment, maybe sixty seconds in duration, where a sunrise is so brilliant, it takes your breath away. Fractals of a thousand different colors. And it’s not every sunrise either. Right? It’s only occasional sunrises and the moment is so beautiful you notice how amazing it is. And if you don’t stop and…
If you know your Strengths, take a quick minute to check in with them. We usually do a 1-10 scale (1 is low and 10 is high), but you could do emojis or thumbs-up/thumbs-down, or 1-5. Whatever works for you. Are they each getting fed in a beneficial way? Is there anything you could do…
Imagine you hear there’s a chest of gold buried somewhere in a vast and uninhabited land. You have it under good authority the land is orderly and peaceful, where the rules are so understood, there are entire degree programs devoted to finding this gold. Then you hear there are people who’ve claimed some of the…
The most common advice we give in our Write Better-Faster course (which thousands of writers have taken) that gets people the most writing improvement… Real quick is a lie. Stop using social media “real quick” in the morning. Don’t start your day with social media. In fact, wait as long as you can in the…
When a friend passed along a meme about collecting information (a tweet from someone who basically said, “you don’t have to know everything… hobbies shouldn’t stress you out”), my immediate response was sort of telling. One of the most easy things in the world for me is collecting information. I’m a #1 Input (CliftonStrengths) so…
SHOW NOTES Every decision you make is a hammered nail or placed board for the house you’re going to live in as an author. Are you making choices that will build you a house you can live in? In this episode, we discuss burnout, overwhelm, FOMO, and the sustainability archetypes (which I’ll have to do…