Writing a Memoir, Making Big Decisions and Bonus Time With Author Brian Pennie

Will it make our boat go faster? That's a question Great Britain's 2000 Olympic rowing team asked itself every day for months prior to winning gold in Australia.

As a writer, your boat might represent writing a memoir and publishing it, for others, it could mean landing a new client or launching a course. So when faced with a decision about what to do more or less of, frame it around the boat question.

This is an idea Irishman Brian Pennie speaks about regularly. The author of Bonus Time,...