Will you do what it takes to fix it? It’s July 1st today. The start of the second half of 2025. It’s a mini New Year, kind of like a half birthday. As good a time as any to declare what’s going to happen for the rest of the year. The past six months on … Read more
Now I’m sleeping far better at night knowing that I’m facing them head-on! When you go to bed, do you have this inner dialog of all the things you could have done today, but didn’t? That used to be me pretty much every night. I still stay up pretty late — later than I should … Read more
Start even smaller with nano-actions. I’ll often come up with something catchy, only to find out that it’s been said before and, more importantly, I’ve read it before. That was what happened when I arrived at the term “micro-action” to describe a small thing that we can do to: I heard Carl Richards, the mind … Read more
Do this daily to sleep better at night. There’s little worse than feeling trapped in your life. Maybe the job that you’ve been working at for a while has stalled, or it’s a chore to get up in the morning to go there, for whatever reason. Feeling trapped grinds you down a slow spiral. Feeling … Read more
Learn even more as part of a community Some people have no problem promoting themselves. I’m not one of them. I’ve opted for the soft sell for most of the time I’ve created content on the Internet, and it’s ended up being too soft. Chalk it up to lack of any number of desirable qualities. … Read more
My wife is a master seamstress, but she wouldn’t say that. She’ll tell you she doesn’t always know how to make something work when she accepts a job. Yet she always — always — has gotten it to work. She figures it out and it looks great. Is it safety, or is it fear? Sometimes … Read more
Passion to profit is a transition from “Who are you?” to credibility Joe Forrest centers his writing around three passions. Doing this acts as a tailwind for content generation because you’re bursting at the seams to write about these topics. One topic I can’t shut up about This past weekend I was chatting with my … Read more
These two actions were a short masterclass in generosity. Ken Blanchard, author and motivational speaker, teaches leaders to catch their people doing things right. What we can do for people we supervise we can also do for each other, whether they’re peers or otherwise. In today’s episode of catching people doing things right, I’d like … Read more
I’ve mentioned in passing that I’m part of a mastermind group. We’re a small but surly bunch (!) that hops on a Zoom meeting together in the evening once a month to check up, and check in, on our creative endeavors online. I’ve been part of the group for nearly three years now. I had … Read more