We looked at the benefits of age diversity running to the organization: increased productivity, innovation, workforce stability, and the bottom line. And the evidence continues to pile up.
In fact, if you don’t prove you have an established platform, with thousands of possible readers, traditional publishers won’t even talk to you. No matter how great your proposal is. Oh, yeah, I forgot – before you do or prove any of the above to a traditional publisher, you have to prove you can sell the book and earn back your royalty for the advance. At which time, they will are likely to wave bye-bye.
He’s the first. Here. On this show. Paul Chaney, a BFF from my early blogging days, is the first man invited to be a guest […]
わ び さ び (wabi-sabi) The Japanese phrase wabi-sabi means to celebrate imperfection. It’s connected to the art form called kintsugi, or “golden repair” – in which broken […]
As I turn 70, in this post I’m sharing on three of the topics occupying my attention in this moment of transition: time, transition, and success. And how much those three concepts overlap — especially when recast into verb form, as I believe nouns often should be.
Who is behind the “you” that shows up at networking events. You need to tell a story, not give a report. Too many first authors give a report – they act as outside eyeballs giving a word by word description of what happened here or there, and when.
I would love it if we could rely on the advice and insight of family and friends, but the truth is so different. These are not the people to trust when it comes to deciding to write a book. Their opinions will be suspect. Yes, share and discuss and take their thoughts to heart. But don’t believe them when they say, “Yes, that’s a great idea! It’s going to be a best-seller!”
Ladies, look carefully at your success and be proud of what you’ve accomplished. Now, share it. Because that’s what you’re doing when you write a book. You’re sharing. Everyone knows sharing is caring. By writing your success story down, you inspire so many other women who are struggling, maybe just the way you struggled, way back when. You inspire these women to keep going, because you become an example, a mentor, a vision of the success they could achieve, if they keep moving forward the way you did.
In the past two decades, Janine has completed her M.A. in Education, she home-schools the herd, she started another entrepreneurial venture (The8Gates, LLC., a firm dedicated to teaching fundamental principles of lifestyle independence), has written 10 books and teaches math and metaphysics in her spare time.
I mean, in her spare time. That’s all. (alien)
Confession: I’m a fan of sports metaphors as life lessons. So when I saw the title of Chip Conley’s Wisdom Well blog post a few […]
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