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October 2011

20 Ways to Make Time to Write

Would you like to start a blog? Do you want to participate in NaNoWriMo next month? Do you dream of becoming the next J.K. Rowling? Have you been trying to write an ebook for a while, to no avail? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, but you keep telling yourself that you [...]

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15 Simple Tips for Overcoming Resistance

How many times have you thought of creating a product to sell from your blog, but then you’ve failed to take action? Or maybe you’re an expert in your field and you’ve been thinking of quitting your job and becoming a freelancer or a consultant. Perhaps you’ve even considered starting your own business. Why haven’t [...]

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Achieve Your Goals With “The Zorro Circle”

Several years ago “The Mask of Zorro”—with Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones—was playing in movie theaters. Zorro was a masked swordsman who was a champion of the people and who fought against official corruption in early 19th century California. When the movie begins, Alejandro Murrieta is a young man trying to exact revenge [...]

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Do It the Other Way Around – TRIZ Principle for Solving Problems

TRIZ (or the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)—which I introduced in this blog post–is a toolbox of techniques for solving problems and generating ideas. It was created in the 1950s by a Soviet naval patent clerk named Genrich Altschuller. Altschuller came up with 40 universal principles and argued that any problem can be solved by [...]

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4 Spots Open: Write Your eBook Coaching

Although I stopped offering my “Write Your eBook Coaching” service over a year ago, I started coaching someone who asked for my help last month, and I’ve decided to offer four spots to you, my lovely readers. Have you had “Write An eBook” on your to do list for ages, but you just can’t seem [...]

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30-Day Creativity Project: An Alternative to NaNoWriMo

November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). In a nutshell, NaNoWriMo is about writing a 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time. More specifically, it’s writing a novel during the month of November. If you’re not in the mood for writing just over 1660 words a day, every day, for 30 days straight, but [...]

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TRIZ Principle for Generating Ideas and Solving Problems Creatively – Segmentation

TRIZ is the Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. It’s a technique for solving problems and generating ideas created by Genrich Altschuller. Altschuller believed that it was possible for people to learn to become inventors. He studied hundreds of thousands of patents and found that there are only about 1,500 basic problems to [...]

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Increase Your Productivity by 30% – The Tetris Effect

Would you like to increase your productivity by 30%? You can, by becoming happier! This lofty claim is made by Shawn Achor, who has spent over a decade researching happiness at Harvard University. Achor argues that the happiness formula that most people follow is all wrong. Here it is: “Work harder and you’ll be more [...]

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