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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.

The Long View of Marketing (for your book, business, & brand)

The Long View of Marketing (for your book, business, & brand)

No less than three people within the past week have asked me about best methods to market their book. They usually understand but don’t like my response. I’m thinking personally about this matter of book marketing, too. My recent poetry collection Coat Thief was released by Saint Julian Press on May 23rd, 2016. I don’t see book…

The Psychology of Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception
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The Psychology of Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception

There are thought leaders, and there are Thought Leaders.(1) And Seth Godin is the latter. Why? Godin is a Thought Leader not only because he’s smart. Not only because he’s prolific and creative. Godin is an archetypal Thought Leader because he understands the nature of Thought itself. He gets what drives human beings. He understands story and…

13 Books for Thought(ful) Leaders
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13 Books for Thought(ful) Leaders

The most effective, influential leaders of their pack read. They read a lot. But in my own experience and in reviewing the reading habits of key leaders in different fields, something surprising surfaced: Maybe it matters less how much you read and matters more how diversely you read. If you’re a business owner or a thought leader or…

Your Book, Business, or Brand- Which one first?
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Your Book, Business, or Brand- Which one first?

Which do you develop first? Your book, business, or brand? This question comes up at least once a week among clients, organizational leaders, or prospects: Can I write the book without building a brand? Do I have to build a business around a book? How do I do both? Which one first? You can do…

5 Stages of Confidence in Writing a Book
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5 Stages of Confidence in Writing a Book

Catch only what you’ve thrown yourself,  all is mere skill and little gain… –Rainier Maria Rilke A funny thing happens with a writer’s confidence level when writing a book. Confidence shoots up and down seemingly as erratically as weather. Part of what makes confidence so unreliable is what we base confidence on. We try to…

Writer’s Block as Your Teacher
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Writer’s Block as Your Teacher

Note: I am honored that multi-author and longtime teacher Laraine Herring is part of the Tracking Wonder Consultancy Team as a Premium Consultant. She is a master at helping writers and professionals unravel the knots that block them. In this guest piece, she shares with us how to leverage writer’s block as a learning opportunity. Ain’t no such…