Writing tips Getting Started WRITE A LITTLE EVERY DAY. Often the biggest hurdle for beginning writers is getting the butt in the chair. That sounds callous, but it’s true-discipline is terrifically hard. And yet…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips How to measure momentum The sustainability of your momentum is LOW and it’s time for a shift if Others can replicate, improve upon, or offer a viable substitute for what you do.Customers view you…
Uncategorized An Advent Wreath for Advent – 2022 Many, this time of year, put a Christmas wreath on their door, The Advent wreath is similar, yet, it is so much more. Holding five candles, each has a meaning…
Uncategorized The use of the term cost It is hard to think clearly about process in an environment where most of us are surrounded with products we did not participate in planting, harvesting, designing, manufacturing, transporting, or…
Uncategorized Many are at a loss about how to help their children develop spiritually In my nearly two decades of conversations with parents about spirituality development - their children’s or their own - I have found that whether parents identify as religious, spiritual but…
Uncategorized ‘America’s Next Great Author’ Competition Films Pilot Seventy-five emerging authors from around the country gathered on October 30 and 31 in Newark, N.J., to tape the pilot for a reality show called America’s Next Great Author. Read more here.
Uncategorized “The greatest heresy in the history of monotheism” We saw with heart-breaking clarity how Christian Zionism hurts Palestinians, whether they’re Christians or Muslim. We also saw how Christian Zionism has become a fundraising tool for extreme right-wing political…
Uncategorized Pay attention to that inner task It is when we begin to pay attention, and seek integrity precisely in the task within the task that we begin to move from the first to the second half…
Uncategorized Why Twitter is stuck (and will remain that way) Wow! A very important article from Mark Schaefer: https://businessesgrow.com/2022/11/03/twitter-is-stuck/
Uncategorized Trust, confidence, and suspicion Simply put, trust means confidence. The opposite of trust - distrust - is suspicion. When you trust people, you have confidence in them, in their integrity and in their abilities.…
Uncategorized No one had yet looked Contemporary psychotherapy tended to characterize spirituality and religion as a crutch or defense, a set of comforting beliefs to lean on in hard times. In our field, spirituality was a…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The relevance of your momentum is LOW and it’s time for a shift if Your core audience wants more for less.Their purchase frequency or attention is declining.Customers are seeking new capabilities well outside your core competency.You’ll require more resources just to maintain the status…
Writing tips Precision Precision begins with defining terms. Recently I asked a group of students to write down their working definitions of five terms whose imprecise usage in recent public discourse poses a…
Uncategorized You are given back your life again In The Eyes of the Heart, Fred Buechner’s elderly mother asked him whether he believed anything happened after death. I think Fred’s mother asked out of the deep-down-ness of what…
Marketing tips Ways to 10X Your Book Investment. Of course, it depends on your goals and your business, but the right book positioned well can easily lead to big returns, including: Paid speaking gigsNew clientsThe ability to charge…
Uncategorized Where Are All the Children’s Books Featuring Kids With Down Syndrome? by Amy Julia Becker https://amyjuliabecker.com/time-where-are-all-the-childrens-books-featuring-kids-with-down-syndrome/
Uncategorized Over two hundred pogroms Historian Frank Snowden, author of Epidemics and Society, recounted how as the bubonic plague spread from body to body in the fourteenth century, a social plague of violence spread from…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The Two Halves There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. The first task is to build a strong “container” or identity, the…
Marketing tips A better way to build a brand: The community flywheel https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/a-better-way-to-build-a-brand-the-community-flywheel
Uncategorized “When is the best time to begin reading to children?” A podcast episode from Ann Cavera https://ccavera.podbean.com/e/speeding-past-80-ep-36/