What’s the happiest you have been in this publishing industry of ours? Tell me about the moment. Paint me a picture of that joy. And then tell me how you can live a little piece of that today. For me, the happiest I’ve ever been was when I was publishing between 2014 and 2017. And…
What purpose do emotions serve for you? (Don’t try to speak for everyone. Just speak for yourself. That way, no one gets to correct what anyone else feels about their emotions. I just want to know what purpose you feel they serve for you.) Are they actions? Are they tools? Are they states? Are they…
If I Can Do It, Anyone Can Do It… This phrase is typically used to downplay the talent of the person accomplishing the thing. And I get the reason it’s used. The person accomplishing the thing is trying to help the listener feel like “the accomplishment” is in their grasp. But we have to be…
We do a lot of “where are you on a scale of 1-10” rating questions with both Strengths and author career stuff and someone asked me yesterday why we do that. Often, we have a “general” sense of how we’re doing, but not a specific sense. So I might feel generally angsty or generally fine,…