The results are in: “Trump Triumphs”, or so the banners spouted the morning after the election.

If you’re like me and a lot of people I know, this news made you want to burst into tears on the spot or start planning your exodus to go work in the Arabella vineyards of South Africa.

So much energy has been poured into the election hype, drama and anticipation, and now we have to digest the reality that the Trump name will soon be on, not only businesses, books and bottles of vodka, but also the White House.

If there were ever a doubt that “energy flows where attention goes,” this election result should squash any lingering scraps of skepticism, demonstrating once and for all that what we focus on does indeed expand. Continue Reading…

 

Thank you to Jeff Moore for the invitation to be a guest writer on EverydayPowerBlog.com.

Failure is a myth. There’s no such thing. What we call failure is really just a “missed mark.” It’s an unrealized goal or an incomplete vision. But being the humans that we are, we want to judge it—to slap a label on our outcomes—to compare ourselves and know where we rank, in an attempt to either validate an already poor self-image or to try to motivate ourselves to change and do better.

Focusing on failure never. got. nobody. nowhere. But paying attention to the available learnings and the opportunities did. Think about all the crazy-beautiful and useful things  that exist in our world because of a presumable failure—Post It notes, the microwave, Penicillin, the slinky, X-rays, even chocolate chip cookies.

Helen Keller said, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

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Thanks to Jeff Moore and EverydayPowerBlog.com for the invitation to contribute!

Let’s face it, getting a book “out there” is kind of a thing. When I was in the process of publishing my first full book, it didn’t occur to me how big a deal it really was. But once it launched into the world, everyone was congratulating me and getting really excited for me, even strangers. I didn’t realize just how many folks never get through the writing or publishing process—even if they get deep into it, there is always room for giving up or letting life distractions take precedence. I think a lot of that has to do with the drama that will inevitably come up inside ourselves whenever we take the risks of communicating our ideas on a larger level.

Come to think of it, publishing a book is akin to public speaking in terms of the level of vulnerability we step into socially. But guess what? Hundreds of thousands of people have done it. Maybe even millions. And if they could do it, you can too. Here are 5 tips for navigating the internal drama that could keep you from your bestseller—or at least from getting your book out there. Continue…

 

 

Thank you to Wise Ink for inviting me to guest post on your blog!