Weekday Wisdom Archives - Carma Spence

Weekday Wisdom Archives - Carma Spence

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  • How to Be Happy – Podcast
    Weekday Wisdom, Season 3, Episode 7

    With the holidays fast approaching, it might be time to talk about happiness. In this episode of the Weekday Wisdom, I’ll share a quote about happiness and share some tips and pointers on how to be happier.

    Time: 6 minutes, 28 seconds

    Points Discussed

    The quote for this episode comes from Denis Waitley, an American motivational speaker, writer, and consultant:

    “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

    In discussing this quote, I share how to bring more

    • love
    • grace
    • and gratitude

      • into your life.

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      Audio Version
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      7 min
    • Do Not Wait for the Right Time! – Podcast
      Weekday Wisdom, Season 3, Episode 6

      Are you waiting for the right time? That may not be a good idea.

      In this episode of the Weekday Wisdom, I talk about the Lemony Snicket quote:

      “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

      Time: 2 minutes, 31 seconds

      Points Discussed
      • Why waiting for the right time keeps you stuck
      • What you should do instead
        • Audio Version
        https://carmaspence.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/WeekdayWisdomSeason3/WeekdayWisdom_S3No6_Dont_Wait.mp3

         

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        3 min
      • Are you remarkable? – Podcast
        Weekday Wisdom, Season 3, Episode 5

        Are you doing anything remarkable in your life or business? What does it mean to be remarkable?

        In this episode of the Weekday Wisdom, I talk about author John Green’s quote:

        “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”

        Time: 2 minutes, 52 seconds

        Points Discussed
        • What does it mean to be remarkable?
        • What can you do to be remarkable?
          • Audio Version
          https://carmaspence.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/WeekdayWisdomSeason3/Remarkable_Weekday_Wisdom_S3_No5.mp3

           

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          3 min
        • Leave a Lasting Legacy – Podcast
          Weekday Wisdom, Season 3, Episode 4

          What does leaving a legacy mean to you? This is something a lot of people think about. In today’s episode of the podcast, I chat with Aaron Gendle, author of Conquest: 10 Simple Steps to Conquer Life and Leave a Lasting Legacy, about what leaving a legacy means to him.

          Relevant Links
          • Conquest: 10 Simple Steps to Conquer Life and Leave a Lasting Legacy on Amazon
          • WriteABookUniversity.com
          • WriteABookUniversity.com/free
          • DailyAuthors.com

            • If you’d like to explore how I can help you write a book and leave a lasting legacy, take a look at my Private Book Coaching information page and schedule a free Curious Conversation with Carma.

            Audio Version
            https://carmaspence.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/WeekdayWisdomSeason3/WeekdayWisdomS3.4_Aaron_Gendle.mp3

             

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            14 min
          • Do the Absurd – Podcast
            Weekday Wisdom, Season 3, Episode 3

            Do people think you’re crazy? Maybe you’re doing something right!

            Albert Einstein once said:

            “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

            What did he mean by that? In today’s Weekday Wisdom podcast I share my thoughts on how sometimes you need to do something seemingly crazy in order to get to your next level of success.

            Audio Version
            https://carmaspence.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/WeekdayWisdomSeason3/Albert_Einstein_Weekday_Wisdon_0303.mp3

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            0 min
          • Do you choose safety or growth? – Podcast
            Weekday Wisdom, Season 3, Episode 2

            Which do you choose? Safety or growth?

            In this episode of the Weekday Wisdom, I discuss the implications of Abraham Maslow’s quote:

            “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

            Video Version

            It is hard to step out of your safety zone, but it is required for growth. And it seems that Maslow is advocating for continuous, non-stop growth here.

            But is he? Is it not OK to sometimes take a break and sit in your safety zone to catch a breath?

            Watch any horror film. Are any of them non-stop, unrelenting terror? Of course not, the audience needs some downtime to recover from the last scare.

            And so, sometimes not choosing growth is not necessarily letting fear have the upper hand.

            However, you do need to be vigilant to fear’s power over your life. Ask yourself:

            Are you taking a breather? Or are you letting fear get the better of you?

            Sometimes that’s not an easy question to answer, but it is worth pondering.

            I think that there is a middle road hidden within Maslow’s quote. Let’s hear it again:

            “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

            Ah! Did you hear it? The key phrase here is “back toward safety.”

            When you successfully push your envelope of fear, there is no need to go *back* toward safety. You’ve just created a new safe space!

            So, when you’re taking a breather, you’re hanging out in that new safe space. You’re resting and recouping from that last push through fear. And that’s OK.

            The question now becomes, are you going to stay where you are indefinitely? Or will you again choose growth, choose to push your envelope of fear and create a new, larger safety zone?

            Audio Version
            https://carmaspence.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/WeekdayWisdomSeason3/Safety_or_Growth_WeekdayWisdom_0302.mp3

             

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            3 min
          • The Best Thing About the Future | Podcast
            Weekday Wisdom, Season 3, Episode 1
            Aren’t we lucky that the future comes at us just one day at a time? In this episode, Carma Spence shares her thoughts on this quote from Abraham Lincoln:
            The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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            3 min
          • Do you have a community to support you?
            Weekday Wisdom Episode 106
            Do you have a community of colleagues that support you in your work? You might be surprised how important this can be.







            In today’s episode, I continue from where I left off last week with my interview with Joan Gelfand. Today’s topic is community and how a community of colleagues helps you be a better writer, creator, businessperson.
            CARMA SPENCE: The third “C” is community. I know what that word means to me and what I think it means in marketing. What is your take on community and why did you include it in your four “C”s?
            JOAN GELFAND: I included it because I realized that just being in a room writing wasn’t going to be my ticket to success. I met someone who brought me into the Women’s National Book Association and I learned more from those people that I met in that group about what it took to be a successful author, sending out newsletters, making things happen, and building up your reputation. I had to put in community because it was a nonprofit organization that I volunteered for, but I got more from it than if it was a job.
            CS: Right. You’re looking at community throughout the process. Because what I immediately thought was you have to have a following. That’s your community … the people who will read your book and buy it. But you’re thinking of also the community of people who nurture you as a writer.
            JG: Yes absolutely. And, also what I’ve found, and I’ve talked to other writers who agree with this, a lot of times once you build up a strong community, you will hear of opportunities that you might not have heard of had you not been in that group or community. And what I talk about in the book is out of my seven books that I have to this date, five of them go back to use someone I met or someone that told me about someone who I met in the Women’s National Book Association. Not all like a friend of the group took my book and published it. No. It was a lot more indirect things, which I don’t want to go into now because it’s too long. But I’ll just say indirectly a big proportion of my working through who I was networking with and volunteering for and learning from. Yeah.
            CS: That kind of plays into the whole idea of craft. I remember listening to Ray Bradbury speak once, and he talked about how you have to read a lot not only in your own genre but outside. And you also have to live life, have experiences. And that works for both nonfiction and fiction, because when you’re writing you’re going to call on those experiences you had with the people in your community, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Sometimes those experiences will help you come up with a new idea for a new short story or a novel or an article. So, yeah, having that community around you adds to the craft and the who you are that you bring to your work.
            JG: Yes, and that community often becomes your first fanbase. Even before you get to build it on social media and … they become your — what do you call the girls with the pompoms?
            TOGETHER: Cheerleaders!
            JG: Having cheerleaders is really cool when you’re first starting out, because you’re getting your sea legs.
            CS: And even when you’re not starting out. I mean my latest book is my fifth book. But I still need my cheerleaders, because I still have my moments of doubt. Every time you come up with a new project you think, “Well, am I good enough for this project? Will I be able to bring this vision that’s in my head onto the page?” Which is part of the reason why I’ve never really done more with my fiction because I’m always not quite confident in my fiction writing skills even tho...
            6 min
          • Are you committed to your project?
            Weekday Wisdom, Episode 105
            An Interview with Joan Gelfan, Part 4
            Commitment is essential to completing a project. You need the commitment to not only finish the project but to do the follow-up, as well.







            Carma Spence: The next “C” is Commitment. Now that seems obvious to me but what’s your take on commitment?
            Joan Gelfand: First there’s the finishing the product, the getting it from point A to Point B. I talk a lot about passion, because if you don’t feel passionate about your project, you’re not going to get it from point A to Point B. So, of course, the first thing is finishing.
            The next thing is when you put it out there, what is your line in the sand about how much work you will do to get the book out there?
            I have a writer friend that said until something is rejected 100 times, I don’t consider it dead. And I know people, and there are anecdotes like this in the book, who submitted their manuscripts to a hundred literary agents and ended up on the New York Times bestseller list. But you can’t do that for something that you don’t feel invested in.
            CS: Exactly. Exactly. There’s got to be a big why. Sometimes that why is really obvious. And sometimes you have to dig for it.
            JG: Absolutely. And commitment … especially these days. Think of how we are getting more and more used to immediate gratification. Everything now. I know a lot of people come to me and say, “I tried. I sent this out like five times.” And I say, “OK. Let’s talk about that.”
            In next week’s episode, we’ll talk about what the third “C,” Community, means.
            In the meantime, I hope you got some value out of today’s video. If you did give it a thumbs up on YouTube or write a comment below. Or do both!
            I want the Weekday Wisdom to be something that you value. And, remember this:
            Think outside the box.
            Spread your wings and fly.
            Because you — yes, you right there — are capable of more than you know.
            And that may even include more commitment than you realize.
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          • Improving Your Writing Craft
            Weekday Wisdom, Episode 104
            Are you paying attention to the craft of your writing? That goes for you even if you don’t consider yourself a writer. If you are writing blog posts, opt-in reports, social media posts, you should be paying attention to the craft of writing and working to improve your skills in this area.







            In today’s episode, we’re picking up where we left off last week with my interview with Joan Gelfand. Today’s topic is the first “C” she mentions in her book: Craft.
            CARMA SPENCE: What do you think are the best ways for someone to develop their craft so that they can feel like they are good enough to get started on a long-term project, like a book?
            JOAN GELFAND: I think the best way to get good are two ways that are actually bigger roadblocks than you and I might imagine. And one is reading all lot.
            That means not just reading other people’s books in your genre, but when you read, really thinking:

            * “What is this other trying to say here?”
            * “What is the bigger metaphor of this book?”
            * “What are the tricks that they use?”

            And, not only that. “I don’t understand this word. I better hurry up and look that up.”.
            That’s one thing, I have to say, I love about reading on my Kindle. I was just talking to some friends about it recently. When you’re on Kindle if you don’t understand a word, you can look it up immediately. In the old days, we used to keep a dictionary by the bed. I don’t have a dictionary by the bed anymore. On Kindle, all you have to do is press the word and there comes the definition.
            You want to keep increasing your vocabulary. That’s one of the most basic things.
            And the other thing, which is really sad to me because I know I had to do a lot of personal work to get over this hurdle, is you have to listen to how people respond to your work.
            In other words, if they like it, take it in and realize what’s working. If they’re not liking it, then you have to have the presence of mind to say to yourself, “OK. If one person isn’t responding to my book, what about if I show it to 10 people?”
            One of the things an agent once said to me is, “How many early readers have you had for your book?” And I had to realize only a few people read my book. We’ll think about it if you want your book to go out to the general public — not your mother, who will love it no matter what you write — you have to be open to objective opinions.
            I do know writers that just refuse to have an editor. They refuse to take it to a workshop. They refuse to show it to not only three friends, but 10 friends. And to say to those friends — and colleagues — to say to those people, very clearly, “Don’t be kind. I won’t dislike you if you give me criticism.”.
            Really, the key here is to get the harshest criticism. Open yourself up to what’s working and what’s not working.
            CS: And I think you also have to take every negative comment with a grain of salt. Why are they disliking it? Are they disliking it because they’re not your reader? There are people who will read science fiction and go, “This is crap.” Well, it may be the best science fiction ever, they just don’t like science fiction.
            JG: Absolutely right. I’m a poet. I have people in my world that don’t read poetry. They don’t like it. They don’t understand it. They don’t know what to make of it. You have to find your audience, definitely. But that’s the work of it.
            CS: Yes.
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