Tag: writing success

Tough Choices: The Professional Writer’s Daily Grind

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Tough choices are the beating heart of anything remarkable. From being an excellent parent, to getting (then remaining fit) to being a professional writer, every day is a forked path. One road is usually easier, and a lot more fun. The other? Hard work, sacrifice, tough choices, and more hard work. You guys have NO …

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In It to WIN It: How Committed Are You to Being a Successful Author?

When it comes to being successful in anything, one personal quality decimates everything else. The truly committed are who dominate the highest levels in…well, everything. Writing included.

5 Areas We Need Permission for Success

Permission. This might seem an odd word to discuss when it comes to success, but we need to hash out some dos and don’ts before January 1st. New Year’s resolutions are often more about taking freedoms away instead of permitting new ones. In my opinion, this is why a lot of well-intended changes fail to …

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Never Tell Me the Odds—Getting Your Head Right for Success

We need to have a different kind of self-awareness when we decide to go pro at anything. We can’t afford the mindlessness of mediocrity. We can’t afford day after day of being reactive and permitting life to happen TO us.

Psychology of the Hater—Using our Naysayers to Fuel Greatness

If everybody loves us we are doing something wrong. We are blasé. We are the mediocre middle and nobody cares or even notices the mediocre middle.