You’d think it would be nice not working, but it’s not. — I had to take a sick day the other day. It was hard, though. I didn’t want to do it. But my wife urged me to call in sick finally. I felt terrible. I probably looked worse too. But I hate taking unplanned time off. Whenever I do, I know…

Your writing stats can help you and hurt you — This is a great question for any emerging writer on Medium. Heck, it’s not a bad question for the seasoned Medium contributor as well. I have a simple answer for you on this one question. It is the answer I tell myself about ten time a day when I want to check my stats. …

I have been there for a little while now and I love it! — I joined Substack in April. Since then, I have made it my online home base for writing, faith, and investing. I have moved my email lists from MailerLite to Substack too. After all, why not keep everything in the same place. I have also started a paid subscription on one…

Here is what I do to create books and self-publishing them with Amazon KDP — I have found that writing and publishing books aren’t complicated. Even writing quality books. Now, there is a lot of pushback by traditionalists out there. They think I am crazy when I say you can write and publish a short, quality book in no time at all. But it’s true…

I’m going to try something different — I like tho think about Medium articles in 100 post brackets. Over the last two years, I have had a general plan for what I was writing about on Medium. It wasn’t complicated, but it was clear. I’ve never actually shared this with people too. Most of the time, it…

A few lessons learned from a Medium Old-Timer — This is my 1,200th published post on Medium. I started Medium in 2017. I’ve been part of the Medium Partner Program since November of 2017. Five years, that’s a long time for the internet. During this time, I have written four posts a month to 60 posts in any given…

First, think about your priorities — “If it’s a priority you’ll find a way. If it isn’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn One of the first things I learned about successfully creating and achieving goals was to find out what is most important to me. For the years before I started setting goals, I…

Side Hustle Review for Self-Publishing Books — I recently watched a YouTube video about someone who makes $10,000 a month on self-published books. I couldn’t believe it. After all, I have five books out and average about $100 a month without doing a lot of promotion. Sure enough, I learned about this person’s self-publishing efforts was how…

Here are three apps that make me $50 a month — My wife and I don’t have much extra money to build our dividend portfolio. So, we spend time making extra money with these three apps and always move our earnings over to add to the portfolio slowly. The thing is, they don’t take up our time. We maybe spend five…