One of the biggest challenges my book writing clients face is carving out time to write. Writing time is precious when you’ve already got a jampacked life. My clients don’t want to waste a minute of the writing time they have. Neither should you. Great books take a year or more to write and maintaining productivity » Read More
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The Memorable Story of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs
Ulysses Grant’s personal memoirs are a classic. Historian Ron Chernow described them as “The foremost military memoir in the English language.” I read the memoirs several years ago and I’ve dipped into them from time to time since. But it was only recently that I learned the story of how they came to be » Read More
Writing to Accelerate Your Development
There are many shiny new personal development tools these days. We’ve got e-books and webinars. There’s AI-assisted learning and all manner of Zoom-connected tools. They’re all great, but one of the most powerful development tools has been around for centuries. Writing is one of the most powerful learning and » Read More
How Keeping a Journal Can Help You Do Better
A Haitian proverb says, “Beyond the mountains there are more mountains.” That may sum up the journey of life. The journey that has no clear endpoint. Beyond the mountains there are more mountains. Your life will be full of ups and downs, of successes and failures, of joy and pain. The one place you can bring it » Read More
Sell Your Proposal with a Great Executive Summary
In 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote the following to his First Lord of the Admiralty: “Pray state this day, on one side of a sheet of paper, how the Royal Navy is being adapted to meet the conditions of modern warfare.” Some call it the “Executive Summary.” Less formal people might call » Read More