Thinking deep. I know a lot of us resist thinking too deep about things, so I’m going to encourage you, if you have high Intellection (Strengths), please don’t resist taking the time to be in static places and let your brain go all the way to the core. Personally, I resist this because of distractibility…
DetailsWhat’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…
DetailsWhat 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…
DetailsIf 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…
DetailsWe 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,…
DetailsAs someone who would have said I “grew up poor” because of my earliest memories, I usually identify with people who struggle with finances. But when I made a comment about Snapple, a friend mentioned that they never drank it. Assuming it was generational (they’re 8 years older than me), I chalked it up to…
DetailsProbably the most common frustration I hear from authors who are highly driven is the “it’s not enough for me” or “I need it to happen faster” attitude, and I want to acknowledge how frustrating it is to want something to move more quickly than it does. Especially for those of us cursed with the…
DetailsI’ve learned some hard lessons recently about what it means to have people-pleasing wiring, and one of them is just how much I have conformed to the expectations of other people in order to have an easier time in the world. It might be not-saying the thing you want to say. It might be going…
DetailsDo you want to be unstuck, or do you want to get unstuck? There’s a world of difference between the two. I think a lot of us, in our writing, get frustrated with the act of stuckness. It’s one of the reasons I do the work I do, trying to help authors understand how to…
DetailsAt this year’s digital con, one of the most common comments I got on the “Phases of the Author Business” discussion surrounded the actual running of a business. And the organizational growth curve. So I wanted to spend a second talking about the difference between “investing” and “speculating” when it comes to author businesses. When…
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