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Client Case Study: Barbara Nixon
Barbara had a mission to be published by her 40th birthday and extend her experience working as a consultant to business managers beyond the one-to-one level.
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Can You Even Imagine Your Book On The Shelf?
As an aspiring author, when you flick through any book on your bookshelf, you may get a sense that holding your own book in your hands is far far away. Maybe you can’t imagine it at all because it’s such a remote reality. Unattainable, even.
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Should You Self-Publish Your Book?
Have you ever had a business coach suggest what to do and resisted it so hard?
That was me when I went on a business retreat in 2015 and was told I needed to niche.
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Why Do You Want To Be An Author?
For the whole of 2017, I had an ankle injury. It would come and go, on and off, but it more or less hung around for the whole year.
At the same time, on my goals list was the desire to perform on stage.
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What’s Your Story?
Story is a human need. It’s how generations pass down their wisdom. It’s how cultures can translate. It’s how nations find commonality and realise they can be allies not enemies. It’s how individuals relate and know they are not alone, outsiders, outcasts.
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What Problem Does Your Book Solve?
The friend who girlfriends come to as a shoulder to cry on because not only do you make them feel better about what’s going on for them but they walk away with a solution to their problem, an antidote for their heartbreak?
You, my friend, are the perfect author.
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Who Is Your Book For?
Imagine for a sec that your book is a piece of communication. You have some info and you want to share it. That’s communicating, right?
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If Your Non-Fiction Book Doesn’t Solve a Problem, There’s No Point Writing It
“At the centre of every book is this formula: ask a question; go on an exploration to find an answer; find an answer; and from that answer, ask a new question” ~ Mattie Bamman
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Consistency: The Best And Worst Thing For Your Business
I love pushing myself into doing something by announcing loud and proud to a goal or challenge. I always have done. I remember 17 just telling everyone I was going travelling with no idea how, where or even why…
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8 Ideas When You’re Losing The Will To Work At Home
Some days it just ain’t happening. I don’t have any early deadlines. I haven’t set an alarm. I wake up. But I might sleep another hour before feeling guilty forces me to go check my email. It’s Monday. And I’m losing the will to work at home.
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Typos… I’d Rather Know
A short while ago, I received a lovely email from one of my readers pointing out I’d made (not one but…) two typos in a newsletter I’d sent out hurriedly. What interested me most was that she used it as an opener for introducing me to her editing services. Wow!
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The Single Most Important Entrepreneur Trait
I’ve experienced some atrocious freelancer behaviour in the past. People who definitely shouldn’t be self-employed. Like, zero work ethic. If you’re even reading this, you have a squillion times more of a clue than them.
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Why Write Every Day?
I get freaked out by the ‘obligation’ of writing to a schedule. As soon as someone sets something out concretely (even if that someone is me), it’s the last thing I want to do.
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‘Hot Chips’ and Other Ridunculous Words I Swore I’d Never Write
There have always been words that I swore would never creep in no matter where I travelled. When I moved to NZ, I solemnly swore to all my London friends that I would retain ‘crisps’ over ‘chips’.
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6 Ways To Overcome Writing Blocks
I totally cheated with writing ‘writing block’. If I have to think too hard – is it writer’s block or writers’ block? – then I circumnavigate tricky grammar, because life’s too short, right?
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Do You Take Your Words Seriously?
Words we use can be heavy, smooth, uplifting, negative, light, breezy, inspiring, dark, spiteful, energising… I’ve noticed how easy it is for a simple throw-away comment to be taken out of context or an emphasis to be misconstrued.
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Is Freelancing A Fresh Start?
Have you ever felt like reinventing yourself? Considered turning up somewhere nobody knows you? Being someone new? That’s what ‘going freelance’ was for me.
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