Knowing what needs to be done is only part of the fuel that helps us move a project to finished. That doesn’t take into account all the underlying obstacles (many of our […]
Blogging
What Finishing My Book Taught Me About My Demotivation to Blog
Finishing my book has taught me a lot about writing and blogging. The most important lesson is that I love writing and that my days are best when I’ve done some deep […]
Blog Commenting Isn’t Dead — It’s Different
Nadia Bracken joined an inner dialogue I’ve been having for the last week or so when she posted the following in the Creative Giant Campfire yesterday: Takeaway Thursday Ya’ll — are blogging comments dead? […]
Choosing Your Strategy in a Media-Centric Business
I was talking to a mastermind buddy who was working through whether to pursue a sponsorship strategy. His concern was that he wasn’t sure whether it was a long-term play or a […]
Free Your Trapped Content
Charlie Gilkey shared a great concept with our BOOST coaching group the other week. He talked about how all business owners have a gold mine of “trapped content” – things we’ve already […]
I Lost My Place
I was once told that one of the best ways to recover when you’ve lost your place in a speech is to simply be transparent about the fact that you lost your […]
How Not To Show Up Like An A-List Blogger
I’ve had trouble with what this website has been about since the start. This trouble has come in two stripes; one stripe has been talking about what it’s about to others and […]
5 Ways to Make It Easier for People to Keep Up With Your Content
[If you’re reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to view this video.] I was doing some list management in Twitter and found myself on the brink […]
Blog Your Own Adventure
Hugh MacLeod’s new book, Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear, is a gem that shows how blogging has utterly changed the world for those of us that have embraced it. From the […]
On Blogs Being Dead
Blogs aren’t dead, but the way in which they sit in the web of content is different than it was a mere year ago. The new technological options are just that, and it’s our use of them that we need to be more aware of.
How to Use Social Media Sanely
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tara Sophia Mohr from Wise Living. We””the bloggers, blog readers, twitterers, people who spend a lot of time on social media””are growing up. Our […]
Check Out Our Website Redesign
After a few years of incubation, Productive Flourishing gets a new design. Check it out!
Why I Leave Comments Open
Should you allow comments on your blog? I get asked this question a few times a month, but most recently, Kelly Livesay asked it via Twitter and wrote about blog commenting and […]
It's Time To Show Up Again
I don’t have a whole lot to say today, at least not right now. Actually, that’s not true – I have a whole lot that I want to say, but I haven’t […]
How to Swim through a Sea of Social Troubles without Drowning
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea […]
Why You Should Use the Two-Tab Rule to Stay Focused
How many tabbed windows do you have open right now? Can you remember what all those tabbed windows are about? In the early days of browsers, a perennial and annoying problem was […]
What's Up With All The Video?
[If you’re reading this in email or RSS, you might have to click through to watch the video.] I’ve been producing a lot of videos lately – at least, for me – […]
What No One’s Telling You About Paid vs Free
At South by Southwest, a bunch of us were chatting about blogging. Charlie said something like I don’t know why Ali’s writing for me for free. And, later on in the week, […]