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/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips The One Thing That Changes Everything There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the world - one thing which, if removed, will destroy the…
Uncategorized Mental anguish We live in an age of unprecedented mental anguish. Depression, anxiety, and substance abuse have reached epidemic proportions globally. In 2017, 66.6 million Americans - more than half of the…
Writing tips “We are never more in touch with life than when life is painful” These words of strength are echoed in Fred’s writings over and over. He says, in another letter in May of 1981. “In the midst of all the darkness, I was…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Spirituality is a vast untapped resource Spirituality is a vast untapped resource in our understanding of human development, illness, health, and healing. Specifically, research in medicine and psychology has found that people with a developed spirituality…
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…
