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…
DetailsImagine 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsWhen 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…
DetailsSHOW 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…
DetailsI went through my ScribeCount this morning and did my “all time” book sales. It was fascinating to look at which books earned out their investment, which books 2x’d or 10x’d their investment, and which books didn’t. I have entire pen names that haven’t even earned out their initial investment. And then pen names that…
DetailsListening To Advice… Especially Those Who Are Very Certain and/or Successful Anytime you hear someone speak with certainty, be aware of the inverse relationship between correctness and certainty. Our brains want to believe certain = correct. (Biologically, it’s safer for us if that’s true. Every time someone says, “there’s a lion,” it’s safest for us…
DetailsWhen you’re a smart person, and you have a particular type of personality (which I’ll talk about in a second), you care about being and looking smart. This is not a flaw or a fault. But it does create a pretty deep connection to “smart/stupid” insinuations. (Especially if you were also a gifted kid.) In…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsWith 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…
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