EPISODE 288E I’m wearing my “How to Spot a Hero” Spider-Man T-shirt as I record this episode. YOU are the hero! And you can be the person who is the hero to someone else! You can be the person who writes a book that changes people’s lives. Even just one life changed would be worth…
EPISODE 283E The wonderful thing about stories — whether reading or writing or listening to them or watching them — is that they help us to know ourselves. We learn more about who we want to be, who we don’t want to be, what makes us laugh and what makes us angry. I encourage you…
EPISODE 282E In today’s Encouraging Words episode, I share my experience of the first time I ran in the snow just last month. It was cold and wet and more miserable than fun, but I did it. And it reminded me of how I can look at the harder parts of my writing life and…
EPISODE 269E Our mindset is a crucial part of how we live our lives, how we react to and interact with the world around us. We can control our thoughts if we try to notice them, and we can choose to focus on the positive in life. I share some examples from my recent run…
EPISODE 264E I’ve been studying mindset quite a bit the last couple of years, and I’ve learned a lot about what happens in your mind, body, and life when you focus more on the positive or more on the negative. Whichever way you choose to think, you can end up in a spiral that continues…
