Today, I’m reviewing Essentialism by Greg McKeown.
This is a really excellent book. It really does help. It did help me kind of think more about what is most important to me in my life. I should explain, I suppose. The title is Essentialism and the subtitle is The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
When I began selling my e-books online, it was with the assumption that I absolutely had to rely on Amazon and other e-book distributors to make money. That was before I thought in terms of starting a creative business. Not only are there other ways to sell one’s books, but there are all sorts of … Read more
Today, I’m going to review Operation Enough! by Anita Dhake. The book is about her journey to becoming financially independent, to retire early. And I think it’s a really great book. I was provided a free copy in order to give an honest review. And I’m giving an honest review now.
If you’re looking for a good business book, I can recommend this one. Profit First by Mike Michalowicz.
The video review and transcript are posted below.
When you create your own content, that material has intellectual property (IP) rights attached to it. You, as the creator and owner of these rights, can exploit them or license them as you see fit and earn income from that.
Therefore, if you’re an indie author or indie creator of any sort, you should become familiar with your IP rights and explore the various ways to generate income streams from them.
In the case of books, this can include creating various formats, such as print (hardcover, paperback, large print, etc.), digital (i.e., Kindle .mobi, everyone else .epub, PDF), audiobook, and different adaptations (film, podcast, radio, graphic novel, etc.).
We live now in times of incredible distraction. Everywhere we look there are success stories. Along with that are stories of people who overcame incredible odds to succeed at something or other, despite an infirmity or life-changing event of some sort or other. And we want to be successful, too.
We see these stories and think, “Oh, I wish I could be them” or “Thank God I’m not them.”
Either way, we’re doing a form of comparison that’s unhealthy for us.
