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Elizabeth H. Cottrell

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Elizabeth H. Cottrell believes a handwritten note can change someone's day—and occasionally, someone's life. She's spent years proving it.

As founder of the Heartspoken Movement and author of HEARTSPOKEN: How to Write Notes that Connect, Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire (originally published by Koehler Books in 2022, now published by Heartspoken Press), Elizabeth has helped thousands of readers find the right words for life's hardest and happiest moments—sympathy, gratitude, apology, encouragement, and celebration.

Her readers include grandmothers and CEOs, nonprofit leaders and new graduates, all discovering that a few sincere sentences on paper can accomplish what no text message ever will to build the personal and professional relationship
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September 2026: A Calendar of Great Reasons to Build Your Business Relationships

Elizabeth H. Cottrell, silver-haired and wearing a blue shirt and floral scarf, smiling as she writes a note by hand at a wooden desk with envelopes and flowers.For everyone who builds professional relationships through correspondence—in sales, fundraising, leadership, and beyond

The most valuable message you send this month may be the one that asks for nothing.

Professional life runs on fast email, instant messages, and automated follow-ups, which is exactly why a handwritten note has become a rare thing—and why it carries so much weight. A card in your ow

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“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.”
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