I Am Melting But I’ve Decided Not To Step Away From The Sun I Was Forced Into This Mold By Rough, Red

There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Kenneth Blanchard (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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How Libraries Help Authors Boost Book Sales

Libraries help increase book sales by stocking new titles, partnering with local bookstores for author events, promoting those events locally, hosting podcasts and other methods. Major authors like Alexander McCall Smith and Joyce Carol Oates can sell around 100 titles at Mt. Lebanon Public Library.

Wrote this last week for Forbes online for National Library Week.

Today one must become aware and involved.

Lifelong learning. Everyday is a new adventure and lesson.

Reblog if you are aware you still have far to go in your craft.

Even after years of practicing, I still feel like I have only begun to scratch the surface. 

Beautiful and inspirational.

Source.

These books are classics; they were required reading. It teaches about the “American experience”. Growing pains are rarely comfortable. Learn to get out of the comfort zone and deal with the real world.

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

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Educating, informing and entertaining your customers should be your number one priority. 

Provide your customers with value by creating highly educative and entertaining content that leaves them feeling like Einstein himself!

People be “woke”!

I don’t often get political… but something has happened

Trump. He and his administration are trying to change the law so that whatever gender you were “born as” is your unchangeable sex/gender.

[1.4 MILLION AMERICANS]

This is from a new New York Times article, regarding the technicalities of what has been said. They go even further to discuss what they accurately call “biggest battlegrounds” for transgender students: the bathrooms and locker rooms.

We can’t be quiet about this. They are trying to erase who we are. To make it so that we just DON’T EXIST. As a transgender male who lives in America, this scares the shit out of me.

As I said, I don’t normally get political on my blog, but you all need to know about this.

don’t let this happen

Recommend that tomorrow we watch what the Feds will do to the interest rates. 

Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all

Leila Sales (via purplebuddhaquotes)