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Have you everwoke up and been staring at something you didn’t recognize, only to remember you weren’t sleeping in your bed?

Well, I did that once while working at 10x Marketing. I pulled a late night, probably to play video games, and then just slept underneath my desk. I dozed off about 3 or 4 and then woke at about 7 when a coworker came into our room.

He got us some blueberry tea and tried to revive me. I don’t know if there was something in the tea or if it was just the 3 hrs of sleep I w...

Just before I went out to Costa Mesa, CA to speak at Ann McIndoo’s 1st ever Author’s Business Mastermind I finished reading a report from one of my mentors, Rich Schefren. The report was all about procrastination.

Rich’spremise was that procrastination only happens when we don’t have clarity on what we want. When we’re not clear on what we resistmoving forward.

That really resonated with me. I can’t say how many times I have procrastinated. Looking back, it’s true. My vision was unclear, murk...

An email from a friend today triggered my thoughts on why I don’t do the things I set out to do…

He mentioned thathe had begun his writing, and now he just needed to go back and get himself to edit the whole thing. Here was my advice to him.

Don’t do it. Get used to blogging and not editing. Once you have consistency and confidence that blogging is a habit, go back and correct, but don’t ever let editing stop you from creating the content. Leave that to the editors that review your book.

Seri...

Do you ever struggle to keep commitments…especially ones you make to yourself?Great! I’m not alone then.

If you’re like me, you sometimes let things that seem important get in the way of the essential. Sometimes I even know that the things that are getting in the way aren’timportant, but Ido them anyway. What’s with that?

I sat at lunchMonday with a friend. We’ve known each othersince high school and it’s been fun to keep in touch. Not long afterI jumped into the author marketing arena he sha...