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Reading Time: Postcard (less than 30 seconds) Happy Monday! Two minutes after yesterday’s email went out I got a reply, “Why do you love Mondays?!” Because I do what I love and love what I do. Every single task? Of course not. But since the day I put all of my chips on me I’ve loved almost every minute. Even the sucky things are better than the alternative. Yes, I’ve even embraced the pieces I don’t love. My co-author and I talked about it in The Success Code. It’s now available in audio—you...
Reading Time: Postcard (less than 30 seconds) Reader-- To those who asked, yes, I'm making progress. I'm over 12,000 words on Project 100. Only 53,000 +/- to go. (That was rough to write!) And I knew there would be at least one, "So did you hit that goal?" Yes, by the time I turned 43 I could attribute more than 6-figures to my bottom line from my books. It might be interesting to note that while it was originally royalties I focused on and got, I simultaneously realized the true flex being...
Reading Time: Postcard (less than 30 seconds) Morning-- I'm still on the deadline clock (this will go on for awhile), so let me get you further down your dream to reality path. When I turned 40 (which I cannot believe was now 15 years ago!), I received an unexpected and overdue lump sum of book royalty money. It's a long story and who cares anyway--but the point is it was enough to make me realize I could earn a living as a writer. After much thought, I wrote this in my journal: By the time...