Is fear ever a good thing?
Absolutely. Fear can help you move off dead center and take positive action. And if used in the right way, it can save you and your business from going belly up. Fear is natural, and it’s there for a reason. But when that natural instinct is overdeveloped, it becomes an issue—especially if you remain stuck in the problem and don’t move toward a solution.

In my book, inaction is the biggest thing to fear about fear.
The other day, I talked about taking action to face your freelance fears—those things that you tend to put off or …read more

You probably have editor’s brain if you’re always writing five words and deleting four, if you automatically critique every word choice (and everyone else’s), and you can pick up a newspaper or read a book and automatically spot the one error on a page.
Editing skills are great to have—in fact, they have helped me earn a steady income for several years now. But the editing process has a time and place. And if the editor brain is too dominant or is always activated, it can really get in the way of the writing process.
I suspect that most writers have a …read more

Few things frustrate me more than having to wait on someone if I’ve set up a meeting, interview, or appointment for a specific time. Worse, if I never get a courtesy call letting me know they’re running behind schedule.
So I was pretty torqued today when I left work early so that I could get to a doctor’s appointment on time (to allow for bad road conditions). And then after all my troubles, I arrived only to find out that the doctor was running an hour and a half behind. Of course, the office staff never bothered to call and tell …read more