When focussed doesn’t come into it.

Lola stopping me being focussed

Some days I’m 100% focussed and on my A-game. Some days, I have it all planned out and then this happens …

If you are a cat owner you’ll understand. A sleeping cat is an immovable object that cannot be disturbed.

Never mind that I haven’t eaten for hours or that I only have […]

This close to “Sorry, no. I’m busy,” on the opportunity of my life

LEss than 1cm - how close I came to missing the opportunity

When opportunity comes knocking, will you be in? It is a trite question, I know, because, of course, if a golden opportunity comes your way, of course you are going to grab it. Why wouldn’t you?

But how can you tell if it is a ‘golden opportunity’?

That is the killer question I want to […]

Results as a writer are a matter of discipline

Master as a writer takes discipline

Like any other skill, writing is about 10% talent and 90% discipline. It would be very easy for me to claim that Age of Oppression is taking a long time because of demands of work. I could give a dozen excuses about life challenges and the weather and other people getting in the way. I […]

Stage 2….

Image of the back cover of my next book

I’m faced with mixed feelings this week.

In the past few months, my focus has been on getting my business up and running, so work on Age of Oppression took something of a back seat. But, as my coach often says, “passion+discipline are what are needed for achievement,” and, if story telling is what I […]

Stick to your habits

Image showing an obstacle

Aren’t habits fascinating things?

My habit is to write my blog on a Sunday morning, pretty much my first task of the day. This weekend, though, I’ve been away (on a retreat as it happens) and, as a result, wasn’t in a position to write my blog on Sunday morning.

Now, on Monday morning, when […]

Managing the practicals

Image of my PC - managing the business

I’m a writer. So that’s what I do – I write. Right?

Well, yes, of course. But that isn’t all there is to it. Unless writing is a hobby – in which case, you do it for fun, write when you like and what you like – a fair proportion of time is also spent […]

Grant me patience…

I’ve recently been re-reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I don’t know if you’ve ever read it but it is a fascinating book. Written in 1937, it is the distillation of interviews with over 500 successful businessmen (yes, I do mean men – it was 1937 after all) to create a formula for […]

Juggling the glass balls

My blog a couple of weeks ago was all about the beginnings of my life as a professional writer (All Change). It is exciting stuff and this week I even bit the bullet and created a page on the website for my copywriting services (Here).

Exciting – yes! But hard work too. I have a […]

Working for a living; Writing for my future

I am a writer – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and I’m delighted that this is who I am. It gives me great satisfaction and the buzz when someone reads my work and gets something from it is immense. At the moment, however, it is not something that pays the bills. […]