Tag: Development

  • Who am I? How to find your true self

    Have you ever asked the question ‘who am I?’ If so, I invite you to read this post, and perhaps get a new perspective.

  • My experience hiring a book cover artist for the first time

    Part of writing the next bestselling novel is making sure that you have an amazing cover to draw readers in and keep them coming back for more. The saying goes: ‘Don’t judge a book by it’s cover!’ But in my own experience, book covers are the best way to tell if I will read a book or not. Of course,…

  • Create a new self: the power of the alter-ego

    How using an alter-ego has transformed my life – and how you can use it too

  • Writing Journey: Blurb reveal

    The blurb of a book is an extremely important factor in getting people to read your work, so you need to make sure it is succinct, clear, and of course, a good explanation of your story. It needs to reveal what the book is about without giving away too much, and it needs to hook your readers in quickly. Writing…

  • Leave the doom-scrolling behind

    How to be more mindful in your media consumption!

  • Budget your energy!

    Who cares what they think? How to budget your energy to worry less about what others think.

  • Be careful what you wish for…you just might get it!

    “If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who…

  • Use your emotions to motivate you

    Humans are emotional beings, and even though we should learn when, where, and how we should listen to our emotions (and when not to!), we are going to be guided by them. So how can you make it work for you? First, here are two situations to help demonstrate. 1 You’re working a job you hate and desperately want a…

  • Always wanting to do more…

    Last night I was worrying about my to do list, because it was getting longer and longer while my time to do things grew shorter. It was particularly frustrating, because while my list of priorities was growing, my list of things that I wanted to do was getting pushed to the side. So many books that I wanted to read,…

  • You’ll never have enough motivation, so get to work!

    One thing I’ve always really struggled with in life is staying motivated. I’m sure many people can agree that it is one of the hardest parts of day to day life. Unfortunately, this is not going to be a post about finding your motivation, this is going to be more like a reality check. As the title says: stop waiting…