I don’t know how it is with your family, but when my family gets together we start telling stories. It might be the story of that uncle’s time with...
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5 Ways to Make Your Ideas Work Harder for You
Getting ideas is the easy part. Human beings have idea after idea without making any special effort. The challenge is how to improve the quality of...
Jimmy Breslin is Dead. Damn it!
I’m a little drunk right now. I’ve had a couple of beers. I poured them in my kitchen, but I really should be drinking at Pep McGuire’s. Jimmy...
Advice from the Masters: Lacy Boggs
Lacy Boggs is a professional blogger. The following advice is taken from her post “How I Write 8 to 10 Blog Posts a Week.” “I believe you should...
Advice from the Masters: Jared Diamond
For the first twelve years of my life I was sure I was really, really smart. Teachers, parents, and other adults all told me it was so. I was sure I...
Advice from the Masters: Steve Pavlina
Steve Pavlina ran a computer game development business before he switched to personal development and wrote Personal Development for Smart People....
My Mother Wrote a Story
Sometime in the early 1940s, well before I was born, my mother wrote a story and placed it in a denominational magazine. The title was “My Life with...
Book Reviews for Business Leaders: 10/4/16
“Leaders are readers.” Yep, if you want to do that leading thing well, you need to read. One challenge is sorting through all the “leadership” and...
The Writing Edge for Business Writers: 6/10/16
You're a businessperson. You may not think of yourself as a writer, but you know that writing well can boost your results and your career....
How to tell if you’re a real writer
There are “writers” and then there are “real writers.” Evidently the second group is a superior subset of the first. I hadn’t thought much about the...