Hey Reader, Longtime readers might remember when I used to do the 3@3. New readers, welcome to the explanation: a few years back, I used to go live once a week at 3pm and answer 3 questions that had been pre-submitted. It was all live, no editing, just raw talk. Turns out, I've got a pile of those clips sitting around, and honestly, most of the advice hasn't aged a day. Would I add some information or say it a bit different? Maybe. But these are still so solid, I decided to resurrect them and...
3 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Longtime readers might remember when I used to do the 3@3. New readers, welcome to the explanation: a few years back, I used to go live once a week at 3pm and answer 3 questions that had been pre-submitted. It was all live, no editing, just raw talk. Turns out, I've got a pile of those clips sitting around, and honestly, most of the advice hasn't aged a day. Would I add some information or say it a bit different? Maybe. But these are still so solid, I decided to resurrect them and...
7 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Longtime readers might remember when I used to do the 3@3. New readers, welcome to the explanation: a few years back, I used to go live once a week at 3pm and answer 3 questions that had been pre-submitted. It was all live, no editing, just raw talk. Turns out, I've got a pile of those clips sitting around, and honestly, most of the advice hasn't aged a day. Would I add some information or say it a bit different? Maybe. But these are still so solid, I decided to resurrect them and...
10 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Have you ever noticed that we tend to save our reflection and reset for the end or beginning of the year? Like December or January are the magical months to pay attention to what's happening in our business/productivity. I understand why, a lot of people see the calendar year as an easy time for a reset, but what about the rest of the year? Instead of waiting for the traditional reset, here are three questions I like to ask myself every quarter, and I encourage the members of The...
13 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, The original subject line I wrote for this email was "The 8 things that work when my brain hates me" but that felt a little aggressive (though true, lol). I don't know about you, but sometimes I get stuck, or my brain wants to go in 10 different directions. And that can make getting done what I need to get done...challenging, to say the least. Especially for someone who is *always* on deadline (always). So here's a list of things that work for me and my ADHD, and maybe they'll...
20 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, A few weeks ago I was chatting with a friend who's in a band and he was saying that sometimes they get frustrated by how hard it is to build a music career, get *good* paying gigs, and a following of listeners, even though they've been doing this for years. The hustle is hard and sometimes exhausting, but they do it because they love it. If you're an author, I'll bet that sounds familiar! So when I was scrolling Facebook yesterday and saw this video, I sent it to him (he said it...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Hey y'all, Several years ago (literal years) I asked my readers what ideas they had for quick fuel, for what they eat when they're heads-down on a deadline and don't want to lose 20 minutes to actually cooking something, and today I was digging through my "ideas" folder (I highly recommend keeping folders like this) and found an old list of all the recommendations I got. So here's the crowd-sourced list (along with some of my own commentary or suggestions) of what you might eat when you're...
27 days ago • 6 min read
Hey Reader, I love plants and one side of my office is filled with them (I'm including a picture so you can see!) but what you might spot in that picture is the one dead plant that I accidentally killed (a Christmas cactus in the lower left behind the snake plant). Or maybe more specifically, I accidentally let it die. It wasn't a dramatic thing. It wasn't sudden, didn't happen overnight. It just sat on that shelf, slowly giving up while it waited for me to remember to water it, while I kept...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, Please do me a huge, massive, ginormous favor that won't cost you anything??I need you to help get me to third place. Liz Wilcox is in the last 48 hours of her Christmas in July promo and there's a leaderboard for referrals. But the top 3 affiliates get interviewed on the Smart Passive Income podcast and I think it would be so cool to get publishing represented on that podcast. To help get me to third place, I just need a bunch of you (at least 20!) to please join her waitlist. It...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read