Let’s get medieval, and learn from the great tools for concentration practised by the nuns and monks of the Middle Ages

Focus on your goals, plan for them, take action, track lessons learned.

What is your message to the world? How are you sharing it? What do you want to be known for?

Before we can develop effective routines, we have to envision what “success” actually means to us. Admittedly, it’s easier to just adopt someone else’s habits. Among the billion pieces of content claiming to hold the recipe for success, there are a few common ingredients, from working double-time like Elon Musk to rising before the sun like Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Saul Bellow, author of Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift, and The Adventures of Augie March, among others, died 14 years ago today. Bellow is still the only writer to have been awarded the National Book Award for Fiction three times—he also nabbed a Pulitzer, a National Medal of Arts, and of course, the Nobel Prize.

Rejection is painful, and there's no avoiding it as a writer. But you don't have to submit before you're ready to deal with it. Author Shana Scott explains.

Research reveals strategies for staying motivated in the face of challenges 

“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.

It can take real time and effort to get things going but then when they're going, they're going!

There are a number of things that go into running a business; some we are comfortable with, and others we aren’t. For me, when I started the Master Fixer, blogging was something I found challenging: I have expert knowledge, I am good at what I do, but where do I begin...

I think it’s intimidating to build anything. No wait. It’s fucking terrifying to build anything. Because you’re creating something that has meaning to you, and putting it out in front of the whole world to see. And analyse. And criticise. And hate. And maybe, if you’re lucky, love.

How a funny way of paying the bills evolved from a passion.

Here’s a “life-hack” — when someone tells you that your biggest fuck up was probably for the best, don’t believe them. Don’t believe a word of it. No matter what they say, it’s not true — unless they’re actually a part of your project or company or they have a personal reason to want you to win. The fact is, most people are going to want you to fail.

I am questioning my routine of waking up at 2 am every day to work on my blog. I do start out my time praying to the Lord, admittedly, I need to read His Word more. Or, even do the study I post every Sunday. I always tell myself that this is my quiet time to do my writing. But, is it giving me enough sleep time to

You lose your aims as fast as you make them I’ve seen many publications where they specify their writing goals and aims. The criteria for the articles they’ll be accepting and other stuff. But…

The founder of Girls Who Code shares one of her biggest life lessons: Go ahead and try.

If you don’t create, you won’t affect the world around you.

I tell you God is in control. I encourage you to believe; Once you believe God is in control, And acknowledge Him in control, And surrender to Him, You have done The best thing You can ever do to y…

Writer Erica Jong on working in different genres, finding kinship with other writers, and what it means to to write honestly about your own life.

Great news! You can be a creator. Follow these steps to find your inner writer, composer, finger-painter, chef, lyricist, entrepreneur or professional Tweeter.