Writing tips Consistent work If writing is your gift, then write. Consider it your job. This project you’re working on is the bit of world that you’re holding in place for the rest of…
Marketing tips What’s the difference between thought leaders and a personal brand? by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/10/25/thought-leaders/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips We tend to forget the luck that is the wind at our backs Chilean sociologists Mario Molina and Mauricio Bucca noticed that when their friends played a card game that was totally based on chance, they insisted that their winning streak was based…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The consequences of language abuse Warnings about the consequences of language abuse have been issued before. George Orwell in 1946 and George Steiner in 1959 lamented the way that language, co-opted and twisted to serve…
Marketing tips Five ways to build your audience through Twitter-related tactics Here are five ways to build your audience through Twitter-related tactics: Mine Twitter Lists. Once you’re on Twitter for a while, you’ll notice that people place you on public lists.…
Writing tips The story itself has the final say Because memoir by its very nature, is only a small window into the author’s life, one of the delights of writing memoir is discovering the best frame for that window.…
Uncategorized The kingdom of heaven is like the Brooklyn Public Library "The kingdom of heaven is like a library. Its power has nothing to do with coercion or control. It strives toward order but does not make an idol of its…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips By the time I’m 15 or 16 years old, I knew the entire mechanics of a record company Kristian Bush is one of Nashville’s most prolific singer-songwriters and is best known for being one half of the Grammy-winning, multi-platinum band Sugarland. Kristian told me that a mashup of…
Marketing tips How do you build a personal brand when your life is in chaos? by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/10/18/life-is-in-chaos/
Writing tips Caring for words is a moral issue Caring for language is a moral issue. Caring for one another is not entirely separable from caring for words. Words are entrusted to us as equipment for our life together,…
Writing tips Divine multiplicity Once I started reading up on the third Person of the Trinity, I discovered how many theologians were ahead of me. The feminine pronoun is not as important to all…
Uncategorized How to Think Outside Your Brain https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/brain-mind-cognition.html?referringSource=articleShare
Writing tips Honest self-reflection Human beings are untidy collections of motives, hurts, memories, goals, fears, and so on. Much of the learning curve in any spiritual practice involves seeing ourselves honestly. Also, we must…
Uncategorized The life-changing power of a spiky point of view by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/10/06/spiky-point-of-view/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Success is a collection of events Researcher Frans Johansson codified this mysterious idea that every success starts with a “click moment” - a collision of people and ideas and circumstances that creates your one small advantage.…
Writing tips Caring for Words In A Culture of Lies I was talking recently about stewardship of resources with a young man who is hoping to make a career in environmental law. We considered the fate of water, soil, animal…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Look it up If the commonplace book tradition tells us that the best way to nurture hunches is to write everything down, the serendipity engine of the Web suggests a parallel directive: look…
Writing tips Attentiveness and awareness Paying attention is mostly what happens in good prayer and in good art. Noticing what’s right in front of you; being mindful of this moment and place rather than allowing…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips The formula The formula from the (Tim) Ferriss case study and my research is the recipe we’ll follow for the rest of the book. If we aren’t born into Cumulative Advantage, we…
Marketing tips Five significant trends that point to marketing’s future by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/09/20/marketings-future/
