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ernie-j-zelinski's picture
Oct.01.2008
This may come as a shock to some, but if you really want to be successful as a writer, the first thing you need to learn is how to be a success without anyone else's help — or NOT expect it — as the case may be.  I cannot believe the number of people with a sense of entitlement and the world-owes-...
ernie-j-zelinski's picture
Sep.13.2008
It may come as a surpise to some people that we all have our doubts and our fears about our projects and career aspirations, regardless of how much success we have achieved in the past. Lest you think that you can totally eliminate the fear of failure forever by being a major success in your...
glenda-burgess's picture
Sep.04.2008
This past week over Labor Day weekend, the famous Maui Writers Conference "hit the road" to Honolulu. For the first time ever not on its home island of Maui, the conference opened its doors to the wider writing and reading community of Oahu this year. Attendance was tremendous - full of...
ernie-j-zelinski's picture
Aug.16.2008
Today as I was walking down Whyte Avenue in my home town toward one of my favorite coffee places, where I work on my laptop, I found a roll of five twenty-dollar bills. There was no one around where the roll of bills were laying on the sidewalk between two doorways of two different retail stores,...
robert-sward's picture
Aug.13.2008
In Feb. 1987, the publisher of BUSINESS TO BUSINESS NETWORK asked me to come up with a feature on the Business of Love for a special Valentine’s Day edition he was planning. I began my story by phoning Allan Gleicher, director of services for Compatibility Plus, an introduction service for “...
ernie-j-zelinski's picture
Aug.04.2008
A writer's life can draw criticism from the losers of this world. I received this e-mail the other day: To whom it may concern: Let add to the chorus of one who criticized your book [The Joy of Not Working]. I don't take offense at your drift - I make less than $10,000 and am "retired"...
ernie-j-zelinski's picture
Jul.26.2008
  Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.— Louis Untermeyer   When I was enrolled in the Engineering program at the University of Alberta, I failed English three years in a row. In fact, I received the lowest mark possible on a grading curve...
shannon-mcginnis's picture
Jul.24.2008
Your life will be easier if your electronic files follow the same organizational structure as your filling cabinets. Open up your electronic files or “folders” and look at what the files are called in both your electric and paper versions. Are they the same or are they different? Which label is...
ernie-j-zelinski's picture
Jul.14.2008
I am still amazed by how many letters I have received from individuals who told me that they parted ways with their employer after reading one of my books. The first letter or two I received in this regard made me feel somewhat uncomfortable, at the same time hoping that no one would sue me with a...
mario-barrett's picture
Jul.07.2008
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   2008- NEW RELEASE SHOWS READERS THE KEY TO ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS   Leading from the Inside-Out  is released by author Dr. Mario O. Barrett III, PhD   Are you a happy person? Is there anything standing between you and a happier life?...