A lot of people have said, “I want to write a book someday.” They’ve repeated it in their own heads. Out loud. To me. To their dog. “I want to write a book someday.” It can be a wish or it can be a plan. Fellow writer and business buddy Zita Christian said to me, “Writing your first book is like cooking a whole Thanksgiving turkey.

What do you think it takes to write a book? I used to think it took genius ideas and a healthy dose of commitment. Then I became a ghostwriter. And now I can tell you, while you need them, genius ideas and commitment are not enough to get your book done. Especially if you run a business and/or have a thriving career and a life outside of work.

… mad world. 30 minutes after I sent my weekly letter on Januar 13, I watched an attempted coup live at the Capitol. Today I’m working on my weekly letter and I’ve got an impeachment vote livestream open in another browser. … And still we get up in the morning, do our thing.

I get a lot of ads for Masterclass around the winter holidays. It’s become an annual tradition. ? A lot of the ads are for the classes taught by pro writers. They all introduce their Masterclass on video while interstitial string music plays, saying mostly useless things about writing that sound profound.

Heya, My business coach wrote this nice thing about me on LinkedIn. She is not a client (full disclosure), but she wanted to give me a little love and of course I appreciated it! I am sharing it with you because of the sentence near the bottom.

Hi, I’ve been watching The Last Dance on Netflix. It has been A TRIP down 1990s memory lane for this almost 40-year-old. (I turn 40 in January.) It has the music. It has Carmen Electra (and Madonna!) … because it has Dennis Rodman in those baggy plaid pajama pants and multi-colored hair.

Let me tell ya, I used to walk through Central Park several mornings a week to get to work. I’d walk from 90th all the way down to 59th street many days. That meant that in the summer of 2010, my walk took me past the Delacorte Theatre. People would line up at the box office in the morning to snag free tickets to Shakespeare in the Park.

Hey, I focus my work on helping myself and helping other women claim their right to raise their voices and be heard. When men have ideas – good ones, bad ones, whatever! – they share them publicly. I’ve seen it in the workplace and I’ve seen it online and I’ve seen it as an entrepreneur.

People love Star Wars and people love Yoda and I’m not exactly here to rain on anyone’s parade but you know what? “Do or do not. There is no try” is wrong. Yeah, I said it.