The Daily Writer

If you want to be a full-time writer, but you currently have a full-time or part-time job working for someone else, today’s episode is for you. You’ll learn a simple tip to help you build skills that are directly transferable to the business you want to build.

Do you send handwritten cards in the mail? If not, this episode will give you a few simple tips to start using this powerful way to build relationships and make someone’s day.

The Writer’s Notebook is a monthly digest where we dive into books, questions, and resources to help you help you become the author of your own life. I hope these pique your interest and give you something to think about.

Have you ever struggled with perfectionism? If so, today's episode will give you a simple principle you can use to get unstuck and write more consistently.

Why do I publish something every single day? In this episode, I share the three biggest reasons I maintain a daily publishing habit—and why creating consistently has made me a better writer, communicator, and thinker. 

On today’s episode, a short lesson from an inchworm about making a little progress each day.

In the movie “The Dark Knight,” Gotham D.A. Harvey Dent carries a two-headed coin so he can “make his own luck.” You can do the same with these three habits we explore on this episode.

To help you make your own luck, check out my book on creativity:

The Artist’s Suitcase: 26 Essentials for the Creative Journey

If I had to sum up everything I teach into one sentence, it’s this: Authorship is the decision to take ownership of your life and work. It’s refusing to accept the story everyone else wants to write for your life … and choosing to write your own story. You can choose authorship every day by weaving the threads of your own story.

It seems like yesterday that I was just 25 years old. Then I turned around, and today I’m 52. Where did the time go? As the great theologian Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

In that spirit, today I’m celebrating my birthday by sharing a lesson on gratitude for each decade of life I’ve been given.

If you want to self-publish your book, it requires an investment. On this episode, I share I took initiative to raise the cash required to self-publish my second book back in 2015. I also share a few ways you can raise cash quickly for self-publishing.