How I learned to write a bio that now attracts readers. — In the last two months, my followers have increased by 620% from 59 at the end of July to 424 by the end of September. The rate of increase is even faster in October. A key driver of this growth has been a 6-month study I carried out into bio…

Like many writers, I’m not the best-organised person, but I have found that this hack definitely increases my earnings. — This is what I have done that has almost doubled my daily income from my existing content. Quality is your best advertisement. The more you can put quality content in front of your audience the more reads you are likely to get. …

Six-figure annual income, unlimited market, easy to learn, work from home, travel, you're master of your own time. — The negative motivations that got me thinking about starting my own business were: I was pissed off with commuting Work hours limited my ability to enjoy other aspects of my life Work was only occasionally satisfying My bosses cramped my thinking and my initiatives The opportunities to express myself were…

I started businesses during the recessions of 1980/1 and 1990/1 and both businesses did well. — The simple reason why recessions create opportunities for alert entrepreneurs is that businessmen and women are worried because they cannot foretell their futures. Their worry is your opportunity. All you have to do is find a way to give them a new crystal ball. The important point is to understand…

Writing about my passion has got me really going — To understand what gets you excited you have to look into not just what you do but the reasons why you do it. I didn’t really understand this point until I wrote the story about how my new blog came into being. I had to write the story three times…

I am motivated by the desire to create more interesting, stimulating, and more valuable ways to improve the quality of life for both myself and others. — Too often I do something that creates a slight improvement in some aspect of my life and then fail to embed the small advance made. And so the thought and work that created the improvement are lost. …

There’s a kind of alchemy that works for famous people that can also work for the most humble of writers. — The Rolling Stones just have to announce another world tour and instantly millions of tickets are sold in all the countries they will visit. How does this happen? What is the magic that drives those ticket sales? Can the same magic be used to generate views for your stories? The magic can also work for you

I didn’t even have time to open my eyes before my mind was filled with pictures of the devastation caused by Putin’s nuclear bomb which I imagined had fallen on a Ukrainian city of a million people. — The pictures in my mind were all black and white, just like the Second World War pictures of the devastated cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The dark ground was flat except for a few piles of bricks or rubble that showed where buildings had stood. …

We all have fears, habits, and rules that others imposed on us at an early age that inhibit our ability to express ourselves fully. Here’s how to overcome them. — There are some short-term fixes that you can use to write short stories. I’ll talk about one of these fixes in this article. …