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To Self-Publish or Traditionally Publish: Vital Insights You Must Know

A Writer’s Dream: Your Published Book

As a teenager, plotting my fiction series and dreaming of being a published author one day, no one was asking whether to self-publish or traditionally publish a book.

You would order your copy of Writer’s Market or Christian Writer’s Market Guide for that year, and comb through listings of traditional publishers to find one that might accept your unsolicited manuscript. If you had high hopes of becoming a famous author, you would get the Guide to Liter...

Your Book Dream: How to Get Help From an Author Coach

So, you’ve got this brilliant message burning in your heart, huh? Maybe it’s a powerful framework that has helped your clients, or perhaps it’s a heartfelt memoir sharing your journey through overcoming adversity. Either way, you’re itching to get those thoughts out of your mind and onto the page. It sounds simple enough, especially if you feel God’s inspiring you to write it, doesn’t it? Just put words onto a page, reshape it with some editing, and hand it off to someone excited to publish. So,...

Getting Results with Your Book: How to Work with a Non-Fiction Author Coach

So, you’ve got this brilliant message burning in your heart, huh? Maybe it’s a powerful framework that has helped your clients, or perhaps it’s a heartfelt memoir sharing your journey through overcoming adversity. Either way, you’re itching to get those thoughts out of your mind and onto the page.

It sounds simple enough, especially if you feel God’s inspiring you to write it, doesn’t it? Just put words onto a page, reshape it with some editing, and hand it off to someone excited to publish. ...

Getting Results: How to Work with a Non-Fiction Author Coach

So, you’ve got this brilliant message burning in your heart, huh? Maybe it’s a powerful framework that has helped your clients, or perhaps it’s a heartfelt memoir sharing your journey through overcoming adversity. Either way, you’re itching to get those thoughts out of your mind and onto the page. It sounds simple enough, especially if you feel God’s inspiring you to write it, doesn’t it? Just put words onto a page, reshape it with some editing, and hand it off to someone excited to publish. So,...

Creativity and Courage: Discovering the Magic Beyond Perfection

Embracing Imperfection: My Editing Journey with Dare to Decide

I never imagined the thrill of handing off an imperfect early draft of my Dare to Decide book to my first beta reader. It felt like I had discovered magic beyond perfection. “Of course, it’s imperfect – it’s a draft,” you might be thinking. Yes, there were typos and missing words. I was okay with those because they would be fixed in the final drafts.

No, I’m talking about missing chunks in chapters and pages where I stopped mi...

7 Helpful Action Habits for the Procrastinating Perfectionist

Living in the tension between sharing your heart and message with excellence and knowing when you’ve given your best at the moment is a daily challenge for a procrastinating perfectionist. You certainly agree with the adage perfectionism is the enemy of progress, but there’s more to it than merely getting over the fear of failure.

You want people to know you care and that you’ve given your best. You hope people don’t judge or misunderstand you if you have to…

 leave your project or day job...

9 Mindset Habits of a Recovering Perfectionist

In my last post, I talked about how proud I was to be a perfectionist – until I realized how much it was getting in the way of what was important to me. Only when I royally screwed up my own (and God’s) standards did I stand face to face with my imperfection, and that shifted me into the Recovering Perfectionist phase of healing and growth.

In one humble moment, filled with shame and regret, I realized how striving for perfection would always keep me from what I truly wanted. Overcoming pe...

14 Perfectionist Traits That Might Be Sabotaging Your Dream

I’ve been told I was a snobby teenager.

That perception might have had something to do with my reserved nature. Or because I could usually be found sitting in a corner with a novel rather than socializing.

Another reason was my black-and-white, all-or-nothing view. I believed that if someone didn’t meet my high standards, they didn’t deserve my attention or my patience. I wanted to do things well or I felt there was no point in doing them at all. I embraced perfectionist traits as my ident...

9 Mindset Habits of a Recovering Perfectionist

n my last post, I talked about how proud I was to be a perfectionist – until I realized how much it was getting in the way of what was important to me. Only when I royally screwed up my own (and God’s) standards did I stand face to face with my imperfection. In one […]

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20 Affirmations for Rest and Creativity

Ever said or thought one of these statements lately? I’ve got to do more. People will forget about me if I don’t show up. I have to work harder to get my break. As purpose-driven entrepreneurs and leaders, is so easy to stay caught in the hustle of everything other influencers are doing …to get […]

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