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Get past the resistance to write for impact
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Get past the resistance to write for impact

Many clients – leaders, startup founders, business owners, authors – express what I would call a Wise Rise. Maybe you can relate. You’re deeply committed to meeting the challenges necessary to grow people’s awareness of your unique point of view, services, or products so you can elevate them (rise) but with a more mindful expenditure of time, energy, resources, and pacing (wise).

Three (3) Productivity Books for Advancing Big Ideas
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Three (3) Productivity Books for Advancing Big Ideas

To build your business with your ideas requires more than inspiration. It also requires less thrilling things such as systems, habits, and boundaries.

In my ongoing work with leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives, I’m always on the look out for resources to help them leverage their ideas into lasting influence.

These three books I’ve found illuminating and complementary to what we do at Tracking Wonder:

How To Begin by Michael Bungay Stanier (Page Two) MBS.works

Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done by Charlie Gilkey (Sounds True) Charlie Gilkey

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (Grand Central Publishing)

The Dark Side of Curiosity for the Creative Mind (and How Wonder Can Help)

The Dark Side of Curiosity for the Creative Mind (and How Wonder Can Help)

The other day I was onboarding a new client. Her client load is full, her team is growing, but she has ambitions to grow and expand her platform and ultimately scale her intellectual property. She has boundless ideas for new projects and strategies to do so, but none of them are gaining traction. This impasse…

Content Creation: Get Out of the Blog Bog
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Content Creation: Get Out of the Blog Bog

A lot of people these days are blog-averse. If you’ve blogged haphazardly for a while, you likely feel as if you’re getting zero return emotionally or financially on your efforts in content creation. Pretty quickly you can find yourself stuck in the blog bog. So why bother to blog at all? Truth is, the benefits…

Use Writing to Discover Your Brand and Business
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Use Writing to Discover Your Brand and Business

Whether you tag yourself “writer” or not, writing can feed the ideas you’re obsessed with and the questions you’re living and that your brand and business is delivering on. Writing can inform your brand’s integrity. And if you’re in transition – in life, business, brand – oh, yeah. Writing is an ally there, too. Someone…

How to Use Writing to Track Your Big Ideas
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How to Use Writing to Track Your Big Ideas

People often ask me what I do as Chief Tracker at Tracking Wonder. I help people think. It’s that simple. Except it’s not. Thinking means that we don’t only come up with new and useful big ideas. It also means my idea-collaborators and I think through how to translate the most viable of those ideas into…

Books That Matter to Author & Consultant John Jantsch
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Books That Matter to Author & Consultant John Jantsch

Books That Matter is Tracking Wonder’s interview series that showcases influential thinkers’ and authors’ relationships with books that matter to them. John Jantch offers consistently useful, grounded marketing advice for business owners and thought leaders who want to attract and engage their customers with real value. His blog is among my go-to for practical know-how. John’s influence…

Why Are You Writing Your First Book?

Why Are You Writing Your First Book?

There are some generally held misconceptions about writing your first book, specifically the first novel. There are two schools of thought on first novels. Some people believe your first novel is essentially practice. First novels are sometimes referred to as “Juvenalia.” Consider William Faulkner’s first two novels, Soldiers’ Pay and Mosquitos, both almost forgotten. Critics generally…

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

A funny thing happens to a writer’s level of confidence in writing a book. It 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 base confidence on nebulous emotions such as passion and a blind belief in our own abilities & authenticity and…