8 Ways To Get People To Pay Attention To Your Work
Attention isn’t free. To get attention for our creations, products, or messages, we have to give our time, effort, and resources. I’ve kept this in mind as I’ve...
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How Do I Know If My Writing Is Good?
When somebody asks for advice, their first question is never the one they REALLY want to ask. This theory proved true in a conversation I had with someone who l...
9 Habits That Make It Easy To Come Up With Great Ideas
It’s not hard to come up with a great idea. What’s hard is to develop the habits that enable us to come up with great ideas. The extent to which we incorporate ...
How To Stop Waiting And Start Figuring It Out
It’s time to stop waiting. Waiting for somebody to give you an opportunity. For the right moment. Waiting doesn’t get you closer to success. Starting does.
The One Thing Nobody Ever Says About Success
This isn’t going to be like most blog posts about success. Most posts promise our path to success will be easy if we follow their systems and strategies. But th...
Love TED Talks? Here Are Five Sites With Talks That Are Just As Good.
Three Things You Should Know Before You Read This Post 1. I paid for YOU to see this. You probably came here from Facebook where this post appeared in your feed...
Why You Need To Stalk Your Audience On Facebook
The better we know our audience, the better we can serve our audience. And the better we serve our audience, the more likely they are to recommend our work to o...
How To Make The Right Choices In Your Career
Careers are not defined by jobs. Our career success is determined by our ability to develop assets and use them to acquire the value we seek. Jobs are simply tr...
How I Stopped Checking My Phone And Started Using It With Intention
I knew I was doing it too much. It was easy to justify checking my phone constantly — especially since I write a weekly newsletter that features a collection of...
7 Ways To Better Connect With Your Audience
We can learn a lot from the Piano Man. I went to my first Billy Joel concert last weekend and in addition to a great show, it was a master class on how to conne...