I am amazed at the number of people who look for jobs online or off, who could instead be building momentum to create their own online small business. No great thing is accomplished overnight, and there’s no such thing as easy money online, unless you’re just looking for dribbles and tiny paystreams.
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Ethics in Business: Dealing With Conscienceless Sociopaths
Your reputation is valuable, but that isn’t the best reason for having ethics when you deal with others in your community. Your business prosperity is important too, but again, that’s not the most important thing.
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Tonight: Chamber of Commerce Board Meeting
Three more hours, and I’ll be in the midst of a meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors! Am I ready? I’d better be! I’m their secretary this year! Honestly I couldn’t believe they wanted me to be their secretary. I asked for (and got) an assistant who has been secretary in the past – she’s my awesome friend here in town, and owner-editor of Happy Camp News.
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Two Simple Productivity Tools For Content Writers
If you want to get your writing revised and website work organized enough to support you through the recession, put yourself in gear and make the work load manageable. One thing is certain – disorganization doesn’t help.
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Failure Is Not An Option
Don’t quit
Others have succeeded – and so can you. The key to success is to keep trying. Don’t quit. Quitting is the swift route to failure and you must not fail. You cannot fail. So regard quitting as the one thing you absolutely cannot do.
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Last Day of NaNo…
Thank goodness NaNoWriMo is over for 2009… for most of us. I know there are some out there still madly pounding away at their keyboards hoping to get to 50K before midnight. I know because I’ve done it myself, once or twice. But most of us have walked away already secure in the knowledge that if we can write 50,000 words on a novel in less than thirty days, we can do almost anything.
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One Hundred Words
Is it hard to write one hundred words? I think most of us wouldn’t have any trouble with that. One hundred words – that’s an easy task.
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Love Your Writing to Life
A lot has been written about how difficult and tedious writing can be. But what of love? If you sit in your chair thinking negative thoughts about how hard it is to get any words on the page, is that going to be better than actually enjoying your writing process?
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Reaching Toward Goals
If you don’t have a goal you can’t reach for it. I’m sure most of you have decided to write a certain number of words daily. If not, you might want to give that a try.
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Tearing Down the Illusions
So, did you think it was going to be easy? I expect by now you’ve had time to sit down at your keyboard and type out a few lines. Go-getters are already 10,000 words into this. Many others have made it to 2000 words. Others are self-flagellating and wondering why it is so hard to reach even 200 words!
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The Day Before NaNo . . .
I’m not going to take time to write one of those ‘Night Before Christmas’ parodies — no, I’m way too busy today wondering if I’m really ready to start writing that novel tonight. Do I know my character well enough? Do I have adequate plot points to inspire me throughout the month?
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Today’s Word is ‘Determination’
For those who would like to know how I made it through eight NaNoWriMos successfully, I have this bit of advice. What worked for me DETERMINATION. If you have the desire to write a novel in November, you have to be really, really sure you want it.
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My Top Ten Uses For Writing Time
Now that I have several hours daily for writing I’d like to clarify how these precious hours can best be used.
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