Communication
The Reason Most People Fail To Achieve Their Goals
Coaching The Negative There’s a reason the majority of New Years Resolutions fail. It’s because goal-setting is easy. Following through, on the other hand… well, that’s something else entirely. For most of us, setting a goal is initially met with a swell of motivation. That’s the brain rewarding you with little dopamine-kisses. Filling you with…
Read MoreEverything You Need To Know About Building a Personal Brand
Big corporations spend ungodly amounts of money in the pursuit of ingraining their brand into society’s collective consciousness. Think Coca-Cola. Think Apple. Think… Hell, the very fact that you can think of any corporation at all implies their branding has done something right. Maybe it’s not doing what they want, but hey, it stuck enough…
Read More4 Steps to Becoming a Medium Top Writer
First, if you’re looking for a shortcut, you’ve come to the wrong place. There is no magical way to cut the line and skip straight to the front. It’s not easy. But it is relatively simple. Writing is a game of patience, consistency, and dedication. But of course you already know that. You’ve put in the work. Toiled…
Read MoreThe Body Language Masterclass (Part Two)
You are already an expert at reading Body Language. Your ability to read the meaning behind people’s words happens almost entirely on a subconscious level. It’s a skill you’ve been honing since you were just a little baby, back when words were nothing more than a bunch of funny sounds. Much of our survival as…
Read MoreThe Body Language Masterclass (Part 1)
In the world of body language, there is an often quoted study conducted by Professor Mehrabian which found that only 7 percent of what we communicate is verbal, whereas the remaining 93 percent is non-verbal. Of that non-verbal portion, body language comprised 55 percent, while tone-of-voice made up the remaining 38. If true, that’s a…
Read MoreWhy Nobody Likes Your Story
Ever find yourself slogging through a story that, on the surface, you’re really jazzed about? You started off with a great concept and compelling characters, but for whatever reason you’re just going through the motions, trudging towards an ending that’s somehow lost its luster. You’re drifting down the Blue Danube on a story raft that…
Read MoreWriting the Sequel Nearly Broke Me
I worked on the sequel to Time Heist for 180 days in a row. Everyday from 5am-8am, and then again from 6pm-7pm, I sat down with coffee in hand, and clicked out 5,000 words. That’s nearly a million words, or 3,000 pages for those of you non-writers out there who do not think in terms…
Read MoreFinding Your Author Voice
Fasten your seatbelts, buckaroos! Today we’re talking about voice, which is a slippery eel of a topic if ever there was one, so we’re gonna come at it from a couple different angles and hopefully one of them sticks. Voice is a hard thing to lock down because it’s entirely subjective. What one person considers…
Read MoreBettering Your Editing
Creating imaginary worlds filled with whatever weirdness your thinking-noodle cooks up is (if you’re doing it correctly) fun. Sure, forcing yourself into the chair to sling words onto paper can be hard some days, but once you’re in the flow and ideas start plopping out of your word-hole, the act of writing becomes a fairly…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Body Language Saying?
“What you do speaks so loud, I cannot hear what you’re saying.” Ralph Waldo Emerson They say, “I’m fine”, but it doesn’t take a Sherlock to see their words and body language are fundamentally at odds. Arms are now folded, whereas only a moment before they were open and expressive. Tone has changed from light…
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