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Would you become engaged and married to an unseen and unknown person based on their thousand word letter to you? Would you base a future decision on words and phrases from the past? On where somebody else has gone rather…
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That Boring Scene
If you have a scenes that bores you to the point where you just don’t want to read it anymore, then you have a couple of choices. One is to get rid of it. The second is to bring something…
Learning to Lose
“A trial attorney is not a good trial attorney until they have lost a case”. A lawyer’s adage Your cannot be at your best until you have faced and absorbed defeat. Your best draft of a first novel is rejected by…
Long Term Vision
What will you be doing twenty years from now? This question appears absurd in an environment where the vicissitudes of life regularly overturn well intentioned short term plans. However, it is precisely in this chaotic environment that a long…
Self Sacrifice
Writing straight from your heart is illuminating, cathartic, liberating, and productive. But it is not everything. Productivity is not the leading force in your career, but only one of several important cores of your professionalism as a writer. Accepting this…
Ethics and Morality
Moral excellence is not a passive, inactive, or static state. It is not a commodity that is on the upper shelf in the kitchen rarely used, like a precious spice. Challenges such as co-author interactions, book contracts, literary agent relationships…
Strengths and Weaknesses
There are many natural athletes with innate talents whose sports careers collapse. The skilled, mature and successful athletes are those who have learned that complete reliance on those strengths is the path to failure. While an overwhelming fast ball can…
Source of Esteem
My brother used to tell me that one of the advantages of leaving your hometown to go to college or to find a job is that you have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. No one knows you in the new…
Courage
I want to be up front with you. This will be a very challenging read. If you devote exclusive time to your character and the development of courage you will prosper although your career trajectory may be altered if not…
Spending Your Time in Your Character Sabbatical
Next time that you are emptying your mind of thoughts, conduct an informal inventory. Did you find any thoughts questioning your courage? Did any of them inform you about your willingness to self-sacrifice? Did you learn about your ethical standing …