Marketing tips The six possible ways to deliver your keynote speech by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/09/19/keynote-speech-2/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Who are you and why are you the person to write this book? We started this work to uncover the hook of your book. Now we’re going to build on it. This will also lead beautifully into creating the outline for your book.…
Marketing tips, Writing tips An impenetrable sense of rightness Our religion can “hell-ify” us by inspiring in us an impenetrable sense of rightness or even superiority. That sense of rightness can inoculate us against humility, infusing in us an…
Uncategorized The Pain is a Mirror Rather than fixating on the way our adolescents dress and talk - not to mention their paradoxical willingness to use a phone for anything but its original purpose - in…
Marketing tips, Writing tips It takes both halves of our life Whether we find our True Self depends in large part on the moments of time we are each allotted, and the moments of freedom that we each receive and choose…
Uncategorized Kaitlin Curtice interviews Poet t.r.h. blue https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-poet-trh-blue?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Low trust is the greatest cost in life and in organizations Low trust causes friction, whether it is caused by unethical behavior or by ethical but incompetent behavior (because even good intentions can never take the place of bad judgment). Low…
Uncategorized Remembering Frederick Buechner, 1926-2022 by Martin Dotterweich https://vocationmatters.org/2022/08/29/remembering-frederick-buechner-1926-2022/
Uncategorized In Both Life and Books, Empower Yourself by David Morris https://lakedrivebooks.com/2022/08/25/in-both-life-and-books-empower-yourself/
Writing tips What You Can Learn from Other Spirituality Writers The first thing you learn from other spirituality writers is that there is no formula that works for everybody. Spirituality writers are effective at what they do when they tap…
Marketing tips Always make an outline before you start writing? Isn’t that what your fifth-grade teacher told you? Well, I’m sorry to break this to you, but Miss Whitebread was wrong. This is one of those “stupid things we were…
Uncategorized The business case for personal branding in one photograph by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/08/22/business-case-for-personal-branding/
Marketing tips Creating a sonic boom An idea catches on when a number of powerful social media accounts all post about it at the same time. This creates what I’ve called a “sonic boom” in my…
Uncategorized Dear Mr. Buechner Please enjoy this wonderful letter to Frederick Buechner from award-winning author Kathleen Long Bostrom https://pres-outlook.org/2022/08/dear-mr-buechner/
Writing tips Precision Precision is difficult to achieve. Imprecision is easier. Imprecision is available in a wide variety of attractive and user-friendly forms: cliches, abstractions and generalizations, jargon, passive construction, hyperbole, sentimentality, and…
Uncategorized “To lend to each other a hand when we’re falling…Perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end” During the writing of the novel Godric, the most beloved and acclaimed of Fred’s books, Fred’s own life was in that particularly dark place as his family helped his daughter…
Uncategorized The uniquely powerful spiritual potential of childhood and adolescence The growing body of literature in this emerging field at the intersection of science and spirit offers an unprecedented view into the uniquely powerful spiritual potential of childhood and adolescence.…
Uncategorized Is there a renaissance ahead for organic social media? by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/08/08/organic-social-media/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Your Elevator Pitch Once people know that you’ve written a book, you’ll get asked a million times, “Hey, what’s your book about?” Most who ask this are only half-heartedly interested so you have…
Uncategorized Kathleen Norris – Intro Reading Guide from the Englewood Review of Books https://englewoodreview.org/kathleen-norris-intro-reading-guide/