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Reading time: < 30 seconds You Must Write a Book came just a year after I'd written Prosperity for Writers. Something cool happened after I published that book--a reader emailed me and said, "I wish this book had a place to do the exercises." I was teaching a course of the same name, and everyone in the beta of that course echoed a workbook or journal would be helpful. Sometimes the best ideas are what I call "throwaway suggestions." Even if you can't turn that idea into gold immediately, jot...
Reading time: < 30 seconds Following Mark Victor Hanson's advice, "You must write a book," and my subsequent fifteen (or more) questions (I mean, it's shocking he doesn't remember my version of the Spanish Inquisition, right?!), he suggested: I craft my first book around a popular talk I was giving at the time I do 7 things every day to market my book and more (more on those extras later) So I wrote and published (quite poorly, the first time around) the original Tall Order! Seven Master...
Reading time: < 30 seconds Super big nerd alert: In 2004, I was attending a conference and I met the Mark Victor Hansen. Now our conversation changed my life, apparently I didn't make an impression. As luck would have it, I did a book with Joe Polish (who is close friends with MVH). I got to FaceTime with him and he was psyched our encounter made a difference. As an aside, always be nice. People might be telling others of their encounter with you a couple of decades from now. Make sure they...