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Making Writing Work for You
A contemporary guide to making income while writing in a digital world.
Harold Taylor is a testament to the power of writing. Writing has been his key to building confidence as an author, financing his education, and establishing a thriving speaking and training business. Even in semi-retirement, writing continues to sustain his lifestyle, mirroring the success he enjoyed during his professional career.
In Making Writing Work for You, Harold shares the secrets behind his success, offering insights and strategies that anyone who is passionate about writing can apply. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting, you’ll discover that rejection isn’t failure, patience is invaluable, and it’s perfectly fine to explore various genres to find the one that satisfies your creative aspirations. This book is a guide for anyone looking to make writing work for them, just as it has for Harold.
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Quarterly newsletter from Harold Taylor, March 2021.
New Book The Proactive Manager, my latest e-Book, published this year by Bookboon, expands on my 2020 introductory book, How to Become a Proactive Person, and with the aid of more recent research, introduces you to our innate proactive brain and how you can enhance...
A patient person is a productive person.
John Dewey, a 20th century philosopher, psychologist, said that the most useful virtue in the world is patience. It is certainly true today. We have plenty of opportunities to be impatient. Most people in business face a plethora of interruptions, delays, rush jobs,...
The power of anticipation
To anticipate means to predict, expect, or think about what is likely to happen. Whenever you anticipate that something might happen, you can immediately take action instead of saying after the fact, “I was afraid that might happen.” The action you take...
The 7-day work plan.
Do not allow your workload to accumulate on a long “To-do” list or you will be paralyzed by the weight of it all. Just the sight of it will prompt you to procrastinate. You will lose time trying to sort out the priorities and making up your mind which ones to do...
Leave space in your life.
Angela Watson, a motivational speaker for educators with 11 years of classroom teaching experience, in her book, Fewer Things, Better, uses the analogy of margins on notepaper to illustrate the importance of leaving space in your daily schedule. On most notepads,...
Don’t let your garage be a victim of overflow.
As car ownership increased in the early 1900s and repurposed carriage houses were no longer adequate to serve as garages, separate sheds began to appear, sans the smell of animals. These early garages, originally located not far from the houses, soon adjoined them,...
Do you really need a “Junk” drawer?
There was an interesting study done by Joybird, a custom furniture company, on how Americans organize their homes. It involved a survey of 1900 people who were asked among other things, how often they organized their homes. Responses indicated that 48.1%...
The importance of hearing loss
I denied any hearing loss for years, accusing everyone of mumbling, or claiming that the TV interfered, or “I could not hear you because the water was running.” As Mary Jordan suggests in her book, Coping with Mild Cognitive Impairment, it is sensible to have...
A capsule course in time management.
There are hundreds of books on time management and it would take thousands to describe the topic in detail. But here is my summary of what time management is all about. Do not try to manage time. You cannot manage time, but you can manage how you use it. ...