14th August 2007
One of the biggest lies that Traditional Publishers peddle to would-be authors is that things 'have always been this way'. That's historically inaccurate. What we call 'publishing' is a recent invention. It didn't exist before the development of what we n...
13th August 2007
Most people know that murder is wrong. It's ugly, and disruptive, to family as well as society. Most crucially, it's also against the law.
That last point is perhaps the most important. It means that when violent death happens, the cops are entitled to...
07th August 2007
It seems fairly simple and easy to understand. If you want to achieve some kind of success, in fact, if you want your life to improve in any way at all, then your future is going to have to be a lot better than your past. (It's definitely going to have to...
06th August 2007
Everybody knows what the dream looks like. First, you write a book. Next, you send it off to a nationally known publisher. Finally, you are rewarded with a contract for an enormous amount of money, you are interviewed on television, recognised in the stre...
31st July 2007
Ever since the 1960s, most of us (old enough to remember) have been encouraged to express our emotions. To get them out into the open. To 'let it all hang out'. Well, sure, as an antidote to the buttoned-down society we had back then, it was probably good...
26th July 2007
If you've been lucky enough to see the new book by Paul McGee, you will know that he has something great to offer in the field of self-improvement. SUMO stands for 'Shut Up, Move On' and there's a real truth there. That most people spend time and energy l...
24th July 2007
Picture the scene. I'm driving sedately in my family car across the desolate moors of Derbyshire, in particular the High Peak area of North West England, the far side of Macclesfield. It's a long, fairly straight road, but there are some vicious bends in ...
24th July 2007
There are plenty of people out there who've written a book. Maybe you're one of them. Maybe you've thought of trying to get it published, (not on the internet, but with a real, live, bricks-and-mortar publisher). OK. First step? You need advice. You trot ...
23rd July 2007
A lot of people who look for guidance on self-help and self improvement are secretly fed up with themselves and their lives. Mainly, they feel they aren't 'making progress' and they've come to the depressing conclusion that they're standing still. They fe...
13th July 2007
How much do people really want to be rich? If you check in to the Web regularly you might be forgiven for thinking the answer to that question would be 'everybody'. The internet is so full of 'opportunities' and Get-Rich-Quick schemes, that there must be ...
05th July 2007
Most people know what stealing is. If you went into a clothes shop and came out the door later with a shirt or a blouse that you hadn't paid for, that might seem like stealing. Trouble is, in a recent survey, about half the British residents interviewed a...
02nd July 2007
A very great dramatist, perhaps Ibsen, said that 'all happy families are the same, but each unhappy family has its own tragedy'. Several people have disagreed, notably those ? like me ? who have worked on the street and out in the community for many years...
01st July 2007
Ask the majority of so-called 'gurus' to talk about business or self-improvement, and here's a funny thing. They start talking about sport. That's odd. Sport isn't the same as life. It's completely different. As Brian Tracey says, in sport you get three c...
21st June 2007
MY LAST RESORT
Judging from the success of recent publications like The Secret, it seems like everyone is out there looking for secrets. They want to know how to get rich, how to be successful, how to influence people and how to get on in life. That's ...
18th June 2007
There's a difference between a reason and an excuse. It's simple. A reason is what you can speak about today that explains what happened to you yesterday. However, if the same thing happens again to you tomorrow, then any story you come up with then becom...
