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Success, happiness and contentment
By David Joel Miller How do you get what you want out of life? Just what is success, how do you measure it and how do you achieve it? Will more success create happiness and contentment or is there...
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Small Businesses learn the value of mental wellness
By David Joel Miller When you are happy you are more productive An interesting trend in my private practice has been the number of small business owners and managers who come to me to work on stress...
View ArticleDo’s and don’ts for moving into your new blog.
By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor. What should you do after you have your blog name and your theme? In previous posts we talked about selecting a blog name, using a...
View ArticleWhere do you get ideas for writing projects?
By David Joel Miller, MS, Writer. Writing is work that starts with an idea. Coming up with fresh ideas for writing projects can be a challenge, especially good ideas. I’ve come up with several...
View ArticleFor your book to live, you must start writing.
By David Joel Miller, MS, Writer. One obstacle can stop you from writing your book. The biggest obstacle to the creation of their book most would-be writers face is procrastination. If you sit and...
View ArticleThe one absolute rule for writing a book.
By David Joel Miller, MS, Writer. It’s not a book till you type “The End.” The process of writing a book is a lot like running a marathon. Beginning runners spend a lot of time training. Lots of people...
View ArticleThe closer you get to the finish line the harder it gets.
By David Joel Miller, MS, Writer. Resistance takes its toll on writing. Every project starts out with high hopes and expectations. It seems to be some perverse law of nature that the longer you work on...
View ArticleLessons from NaNoWriMo.
By David Joel Miller, MS, Writer. You can learn a lot from making the effort. This is the third year in a row that I’ve written a novel during November. Before that, I had tried to write several books,...
View ArticleThe Muse Doesn’t Nag.
By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor. You must grab the ideas while they fly past. I don’t understand the term writer’s block. I’ve read many blog posts, even some...
View ArticleSelf-publishing requires many hats.
Self-publishing requires many hats. By David Joel Miller. Self-publishers must fill many roles. Self-published authors need many hats. Even if you pay someone to do some of these functions; you still...
View ArticleMy promiscuous relationship with punctuation.
By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor. Periodically I get in trouble with the punctuation police. If you’re one of those people who has memorized the entire Code of...
View ArticleToo busy writing to write anything?
By David Joel Miller, MS, Writer. How do I describe what I’m doing with all my time? I woke up the other morning and realized that I’ve been so busy working on various projects that I’ve not yet gotten...
View ArticleI have returned from my long absence.
By David Joe.l Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor. So much to do and so little time. A lot of things have taken place over the summer, which has cut into my time for creative...
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