Years ago, Marda Stoliar began telling Sheila Rittenberg about her students and their special reasons for learning to bake – from wanting to be free from society’s expectations (willing to start a cultural change in their community) to desiring a way to help others, family members sometimes, become more than even they thought they could.
by Yvonne DiVita, author, writer, reader, serial entrepreneur Blah! Blah! Blah! I’m seeing a lot of lip-service being paid to the idea of writing a […]
I’m working on The HOW TO WRITE A BOOK Book, Part II. To be completed, probably in the Fall, also. This is the second in a series of books planned for our How To Write A Book series of educational books on writing. Our focus is on non-fiction as those are the authors we work with.
I wanted Kayla on Smart Conversations to talk a bit about book trailers. I met Kayla via Melanie Hicks, another Smart Conversation guest, after watching Melanie’s fantastic book trailer.
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.
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.
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)
I wasn’t thinking of dollars and cents, while I wrote. I was thinking of dollars and sense. The dollars I would invest by self-publishing and the sense of pride and accomplishment I would have once the book was completed. And, the sense to know the book was not going to make me rich and famous.
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