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The Freedom Project – Getting Started on Writing Your Book
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The Freedom Project – Getting Started on Writing Your Book

How do we stay productive each day and each week while still feeling spacious with presence, delight, purpose? This comes up a lot when we discuss the process of writing your book. “Productive” here references the quality that you’re moving forward on the projects and ideas that matter. And by “that matter” I mean the…

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From Writer to Published: Craft & Creative Mastery

You want to publish your book. Whether you’re writing your first or fifth book, you fantasize about finishing that book, getting it into the hands and hearts of people who need it, and what might happen to your life and sense of fulfillment as a writer once that book is “out there.” But you feel a tension. This…

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Brand & Innovation Digest – February 2017

During the past month, Tracking Wonder’s research assistant Gianna Kaloyeros has curated some of what we deem the most relevant studies, stories, and news that will help you and your team excel at having the most impact and influence via brand building, storytelling, and innovation. – Jeffrey, Chief Tracker at Tracking Wonder Four Reasons Every Startup’s…

Why we fear standing out – and why we need to stop
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Why we fear standing out – and why we need to stop

I work and speak with accomplished professionals who fear standing out with their own ideas and who fear their own influence. In these times especially, we need intelligent, dedicated, creative people – business artists of all stripes – to name and claim their influential ideas and contribute lasting value through their businesses and the conversations…

To Envision Your Best New Year, First Focus on the Inner You
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To Envision Your Best New Year, First Focus on the Inner You

Alison had published three books, delivered a talk at a renowned conference, and advanced her distinct brand enough to garner gigs around the world. So, what was the problem? “I’ve kind of run this thing to its end.  I’m ready for what’s next, but I don’t know what that is. And whenever I get an inkling,…

The endless quest to remember who you are
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The endless quest to remember who you are

“Know thyself.” It’s a high classic Greek ideal. It’s also impossible. It’s impossible if that adage means that we should know completely, consciously who we are and how we think and what we feel and what our motives are at any given time. Consider these questions: Why do you act the way you do? Why…

Who Do You Take Your Biz Story-telling Cues From?
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Who Do You Take Your Biz Story-telling Cues From?

Let’s assume that one thing you do for your business is you tell stories about your business. You or someone on your team tell stories about how your business originated and why, why it matters to your customers, and why it matters in the early-21st century. You tell stories about your customers and other related…

How Art Disrupts Your Life Like Nothing Else
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How Art Disrupts Your Life Like Nothing Else

Sometimes something about your life is off. You’ve played by the rules and followed the laws. You can master a week of meetings. Your team achieves its goals. Your writing gets published. Your art gets exhibited. Your kids make the grade. And, yet, when you have time to gaze out the windshield or the train window…

Warning: You Cannot Plug in Your Potential
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Warning: You Cannot Plug in Your Potential

Every writer has dormant potential to be realized. Potential is not static, and pre-programmed It’s not an, “Either you have writing potential or you don’t” proposition.

Your potential is like dynamic water.

When harnessed, your potential rises and rushes forward in full power.

And it serves entities far greater than your little self.

You have a book running through you. If you can find the methods, habits, and support to harness it, you can step out of the Amateur Bubble and step into the Apprentice-Artist Arena and ultimately flourish in the Artist-Maestro Stadium.

Anyone can do this.

What Value Publishers Add to Your Book’s Publishing Cycle
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What Value Publishers Add to Your Book’s Publishing Cycle

How Long to Publish? A lot of people ask me how long it takes to publish a book – to let it fly into the hands and hearts of readers. I wish I had the definitive answer. Let’s get perspective on the realities and why you might or might not need a traditional publisher.