Yesterday I was at an awesome conference. Today I should be pumped, right? Actually, today I feel overwhelmed. Can you relate?
8 Ways to Make a Difference to an Author
So many books, so little time. You’ve seen the saying. You know it’s true. Something like 300,000 new books are published each year in the United States. Amazon.com lists millions of titles. (One online source said 32 million.) However, only a small percentage of those millions of titles will sell more than a few thousand copies. Only a small percentage…
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4 Things I Learned from Saying Yes Instead of No
Sometimes we seek opportunity Sometimes it seeks us. The other day I received a call from my youth pastor, asking me to chaperone an upcoming high school youth retreat. It was not a request I had been expecting. When I mentioned it to my friends—who like me are in the empty nest stage of life—some of them chuckled and others…
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Finding the Words
When I was young, my dreams and career goals did not include becoming a writer. So how did I become a blogger and creator of scripts and novels? How did writing grow from a hobby to a vocation? And what was my purpose for doing so? To learn more, head over to Ink from and Earthen Vessel, where I am…
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What lies are you listening to? Maybe it’s time to doubt your doubts.
What if, instead of listening to our doubts, we took a good hard look at them? What if, when we do, it turns out we don’t believe them? What if believing our doubts is the worst thing we can do?
Permission to say NO
Most of us are overcommitted. We juggle work, kids, household chores, hobbies, volunteer positions, etc. and maybe we’d be better off if we cut out some of those activities. But which ones do we cut? And which ones do we avoid in future? That is the question, isn’t it?