I was reflecting on how I got to where I am today, in this place where I feel so centered and so right about what I’m doing and where I’m headed, and as a Connectedness, I’m always so struck by the encounters that mold our futures. When we talk about people that changed our lives,…
If you’ve ever been in transition, or if you’ve ever had something change on you where you didn’t have control over the change, you’ll know the uncentered feeling of getting used to new phases of life. And as someone who resisted change in my life for almost a decade, I have a few thoughts. Rachael…
Having a convo about auto-calculating ROI recently, when I pointed out that not everyone automatically thinks of everything they do as an investment, or of actions and time having automatic worth that we’re getting a return on. The three of them all stared at me like I’d sprouted another head. “How can people not calculate…
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…
I 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…
Listening 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…