by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Apr 13, 2012 | Success Identity Challenge
Happy Friday, my friends, and welcome to the last week of our Success Identity Challenge! We made it! (almost, hehe). Survival “Basic, instinctual needs.” But survival usually refers to our basic need for food, water, clothing, shelter, breathing, personal...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Mar 17, 2012 | Success Identity Challenge
Happy Friday! Oh, I mean Saturday, hehe. I hope your first week of the Success Identity Challenge went well and I look forward to hearing about any experiences or perspective shifts you’d like to share! I’ll add my own thoughts about belonging in the...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Apr 14, 2011 | The Writing Life
In a recent conference, I listened to a speaker discuss the idea that through small efforts great things can happen. He shared a story I’d like to repeat here: Oftentimes we are like the young merchant from Boston, who in 1849, as the story goes, was caught up...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Mar 31, 2011 | Beautiful Things, The Writing Life
Janice Hardy asked an interesting question on her blog the other day: “What have authors done that made you want to learn more about their book?” It’s had me thinking a LOT about who I am and who I want to be when it comes to my writing. It’s...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Jan 28, 2011 | The Writing Life
You’ve heard it. I know you have. Several sources shouting the importance of social networking. Various agents, publishers and writers discussing the need for an online, active presence in the writer world. It’s how we get to know industry, craft and...
