#achieving-success

[thepersonalwords]

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

[quotelr]

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

[furious-blueberry0]

The recently knighted Barriss, sewing a gift for Ahsoka, who has just passed her knighting.

Close up under the cut

[wandoffire]

[vanhelsingapologist]

Publishing has always been a fucking nightmare, but now it’s a layer of hell. It’s not enough that writers be good at what they do. Writers have to maintain an active social media presence and cultivate a following. Be available.

They have to be conventionally attractive enough to look good enough to see on a screen, aesthetically pleasing, kind, funny, up-to-date on trends, socially aware but not so controversial that they turn off a brand from California from slapping their discount code on a video promoting a book.

They have to do all of this with no media training, with little help from the companies that are supposed to be doing this for them.

Of course, a lot of this isn't possible for say, the 40-something mother of two who teaches English at a school and writes on the side. She’s boxed out of an already complex industry that already has enough walls.

On some level, I think authors have always marketed themselves a little, but we’ve reached such a crazy point where we’re demanding the author become the influencer. Accessibility in publishing has narrowed from an inch to a sliver. And that inch was hard enough to get in as is.

[formosusiniquis]

steddie relationship reveal coming not from the kids walking in on them or accidental pda but because Eddie's combat balance suddenly gets better and they realize it's cause Steve (the better strategist) is helping him with the combat prep. They know it's love cause Eddie threatened to shave Tews and blame it on Dustin the one time he picked up the wrong notebook/no one gets to see Eddie's DnD planning

[philosophybits]

[Man] loves the process of achieving, but does not really like to have achieved, and that is, of course, terribly funny. In a word, mankind is a comical construction; there’s a big joke in all of this, obviously.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

[the-healing-mindset]

Source: Liz Fosslien

[carlyraejepsans]

hibiscia!!! Sorry if youve explained before but is there something specific about reset-remember fics that you hate? I don't really like them either but for me it's just because I feel like a lot of authors type sans in very ooc ways

They're completely antithetical to Sans' character arc for the sake of cheap and easy angst. The nature of his brand of cosmic horror isn't in reliving his life again and again, that's Flowey's. Sans knows OF the anomaly, knows that it's manipulating time and knows it's a threat to the entire universe, but he doesn't know how or why, because he doesn't remember.

And that's crucial! him being mostly in the dark in spite of the MANY warning signs about us... because it's in that doubt that he remains hopeful. YES we could potentially end the world... but what if we don't? yes we have unimaginable power over everyone else and we can bring back time, but what if we're just.... sad? he needs that gap in his knowledge so he can take a leap of faith across it, it's his entire character arc in the pacifist run. sans THINKS he's given up, he wants to have given up, he chose to do it because there's a comfort in that. in contenting yourself with good food and bad laughs. there's peace. but he hasn't given up, not really. on himself? maybe. but not in us.

there's no way to have that arc if he remembers resets.

[dramashii]

"If you choose a job that you love, it won’t feel like work."

This is the scene where Seok Ryu realizes that a career path can be both fulfilling and professionally rewarding. Although Seung Hyo finds himself in long hours as an architect, he is genuinely passionate about his work. In fact in the previous episode, he said that even if he could swim again, he would still choose to be an architect.

Seung Hyo's dedication to his profession serves as a stark contrast to Seok Ryu's previous experiences. While in Greip, she was overworked and because of it probably hated her job.

As the drama progresses, I think Seokryu will begin to question her previous assumptions about work as a mere means to an end and starts to consider the possibility of finding a career that aligns to her passions and interests.

[delightfullybritishgoldar]

You come across this theme now and then in tokusatsu, and I'm always so happy to see it.

[thepersonalwords]

The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.

Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

[quotelr]

It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.

Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

[writeouswriter]

Me: I have got to write more protagonists who are just terrible people

Also me: *Blubbering and hesitating to do so like I’m about to press the mean dialogue option in a video game*

[triple-starsss]

should be sleeping but just thought about how Shadow only joined the band because he wanted independence from Gerald and to forge his own future instead of having it planned out for him.

only for him to be controlled in the exact same way by Ivo!!! Just under the impression that he has a choice in all this!!!

He's still being used, still being coerced into doing things he'd wished he didnt have to do and still under the impression that maybe they're right!! maybe they do know what's best for him!!

[anewp0tat0]

I actually sat down for 5 minutes and made a better one

I'm calm now guys.... I'm really calm