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

ByJeffrey Davis

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.

Books That Matter to Jenny Milchman

Books That Matter to Jenny Milchman

ByJeffrey Davis


In a sentence or two, what’s your forecast for the future of
 publishing?

In a—French—word or phrase: La plus ca change. I think that the speed, convenience, and ease of use posed by Amazon, as well as the democratizing factor of today’s self-publishing, are valuable things, and readers and writers may well be better off for them. But I also think that these changes serve only to highlight the necessity of gatekeepers and the immense wisdom, passion, and skill amassed by publishers, booksellers, and reviewers. We are lucky to live in a world that has both.

“The Eureka Factor” and Your Creative Brain
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“The Eureka Factor” and Your Creative Brain

ByJeffrey Davis

A creative insight can be as small as landing on an angle for a blog post or as big as discovering a fresh angle for a new book or business launch.

The moment you gain such an insight flashes like lightning – and vanishes like lightning. If you are not prone to pay attention to such moments, you likely will lose the insight and certainly not be able to replicate the conditions to have such insights again.

But can you become aware of such moments? And can you replicate them?

Why entrepreneurs & creatives succumb to bedtime procrastination

Why entrepreneurs & creatives succumb to bedtime procrastination

ByJeffrey Davis

Let’s root bedtime procrastination within another conversation, the one about how we work and how we spend our time and attention outside of work in nourishing ways. Let’s call “how we spend our time and attention outside of work in nourishing ways as ends unto themselves” as “self-care.”

The question I’m hearing in several circles is this: Are we spending too much time working? Let’s be more specific: Are you spending too much time working?