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Thoreau & Why You Should (or not) Care About Branding

When the World of Buzz grows loud with exclamations telling you to try out the latest marketing gizmo (Periscope, anyone?) so you can get big and famous, I take a MindWanderness Break in my WEN Pond canoe. I wanted a way to bring you with me. So, come along. Let’s get perspective on: the brand you…

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…

How Standing In Love Works for Authors and Business Artists
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How Standing In Love Works for Authors and Business Artists

It’s one thing to fall in love with a fantasy. It’s another thing to stand in love with a dream.
Here is what I cannot stop asking myself: How do people get through inevitable challenge and create their best work? What drives them?

Buzzing stories versus your Brave Story
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Buzzing stories versus your Brave Story

And I wrote every day. Because I had to. Because it burned in me. Because we just don’t have much time. Because the Waiting Room is not a place to live. Because the Waiting Room is a place where something true and brave in us can die.