The confessions of a semi-successful author by “Jane Austen Doe”…
Never an enthusiastic employee, I quit my job at age 35 to become a full-time writer, to live life on my own terms. After publishing four books – each of them critically acclaimed, several of them award-winners, none of them big enough sellers to [...]

In other words another way of saying “just do it”.
Talent is overrated. Luck is overrated. The right agent is overrated. It helps to have all three, but they are all worthless without that thing in your hand, the manuscript, the thing in your hand that may become a book for which trees will die [...]

What to do, please yourself, or the crowd? The difference between being foolhardy and taking a risk seemingly lies in the way whatever action you are taking is perceived by onlookers.
First, as humans, we’re genetically predisposed to compete; we do it in sports and in business. That’s what encourages us to take risks, which [...]

What really drives a creative entrepreneur to succeed?
A contented person with a whole heart, who has never doubted for a moment that she is loved by God and the universe, should not bother trying to succeed as a creative entrepreneur. She should get a job working for someone else, turn it off at 6:00 [...]

Jim Coudal the brains behind ventures such as private ad networkThe Deck, Field Notes, Layer Tennis, and Jewelboxing , talks about his successes and also the impending “greatest failure”:
I don’t know what’s next! It’s kind of a joke, but we’re proudly “without business plan” in our 13th year. We’ve had a lot of things not [...]

The notion that we all must rise at some ungodly early hour in order to be healthy and successful has been scuppered by on-going research.
And while it has been found that it is indeed a case of different strokes for different folks when it comes to sleeping preferences, so-called night owls also tend to be [...]

Does working long hours mean you’re a success? I always thought working fewer hours was a way of saying you’ve made it…
It’s been a long time since there was a direct correlation with the number of hours you work and the success you enjoy. It’s an antiquated notion from the days of manual labour that [...]

While virtues such as knowledge and experience are generally considered essential for long term career success, most of us probably didn’t realise that being good looking is another of the ingredients.
According to a recent national survey about two-thirds of Australians believe good-looking people are more likely to succeed in their careers. And 80% believe the [...]

The “rock star” mentality is leading some designers believe their work is beyond reproach says Jason Tselentis.
During college at the University of Arizona in 1992, I learned with other design freshman that revisions were part of the discipline; if you cried at critique you were a wimp, and the computer was just a finishing tool. [...]

Writing a Triple J Hottest 100 number one song: while your mileage may vary with some tips, making the title more memorable by including it in the chorus is definitely a recipe for success; since 1989 13 songs that do so have reached the top spot:
Songwriters love featuring the song title in the chorus hook, [...]