The Minimum Effective Post

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I spent the weekend cleaning up old profiles, and working on some new time management material. As I considered the time I spend blogging, I realized how inefficient I have become. My life can easily become filled with distractions, which can fill minutes, hours, and even days. Sitting down and focusing on a post takes [...]

Overcoming The Resistance

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You sit down to work on your next project. It’s rather simple. All you need to do is open your word processor on your laptop and start writing. Yet something keeps you from proceeding. Something stops you from opening the lid. You look at the laptop. Nothing seems wrong. You reach out your hand, put [...]

Three Things Every Writer Needs

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While I have been putting the initial outlines together for my new book, I’ve been trying some new things to organize my thoughts and put together the pieces to start writing. I’ve had a great experience with Evernote, to capture all my ideas in one place, accessible from the cloud on most almost all of [...]

Are You Putting In The Time?

I read a great guest post today by Mary DeMuth about Finding Your Passion in Three Steps. In it she talks about a simple exercise to help you find your passion… Just list your top three movies of all time. Then find a common thread that runs through them. This thread will closely resemble (if [...]

Free Download: A Simple Checklist

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When starting any project or planning out our goals it’s great to have a list of needed items and supplies. While there are all sorts of project planners available, I usually like to start with a basic checklist. I created one in MS Word that has two columns, each with 25 rows of check boxes. [...]