The Moxie Books Blog

It's incredibly tempting to throw everything you have at your courses and products and articles... but how about, instead, you go deeper and narrower?

I don't know about you, but my days are incredibly full.

I haven't shut my business, so I'm not swimming in free time; and although my client work has dipped, I'm using this time to do stuff I've been wanting to do for ages.

Stop. Breathe. Listen.

Then pick a thing and do it.

Let’s talk about sloth, shall we? One of the 7 deadly sins, and something that’ll scupper your ability to write a book (or, in fact, anything else).

The punishment for sloth is eternal death by spider bites over and over again. Or possibly being forced to sit in front of a blank page and be unable to write—forever.

Michael Stipe was right, eh?

Oof. What a few days, eh?

It's the end of the world as we know it.

Well, that escalated fast.

Honestly, I've been thinking and mulling over and wondering what to write (and resisting the urge to make terrible jokes because too soon?).

So today I'm going to share what I'm doing while the world goes into lockdown.

On Facebook the other day, my sister-in-law posted a picture that made me snort with laughter.

It's a splendid example of English scolding: "commit no nuisance".

But it got me thinking about how things get done... and how our whole society is geared to keeping us quiet, keeping us in line, and not making a fuss.

If we're not telling the truth, there's no point in writing... don't let pride get in the way of your truth.