In my last post I discussed creating a vision board or map to help you achieve your writing (or personal) goals in 2012. However, some people don’t like visual or artsy exercises involving cutting and pasting. They prefer words and lists–something that feels more concrete and doesn’t involve visualizing or getting in touch with their emotions. If you are one…
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Happy New Year! Each year I spend time either on New Year’s Eve or on January first visualizing my year. In this way I “create” it. I firmly believe that by getting clear about what I want to create in the coming 12 months, focusing attention on it regularly and then taking inspired and purposeful action related to bringing my…
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I’ve been thinking all day about what to write in this last post of 2011. I could have offered you some sort of things-t0-do-t0-get-published list or a best-of post. I could have told you to hurry up and finish your to-do list. I decided not to do that. Instead, I thought about what I wanted to encourage you to do…
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I read this recent post by Seth Godin, and it got me thinking about all the different possible things we authors can now do with our content. Then I thought of an ebook recently published by Julien Smith, The Flinch. It’s free and there’s not much to it but great content. There’s so much great content to be written. So…
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I do a lot of things to help make my writing dreams come true. I write. I promote. I propose. I don’t give up. I don’t accept rejection as failure. I build platform. But there are some other things I do, too. These have little to do with writing per se. They have more to do with using my focus…
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