by RogerM | Oct 10, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Unseen Work
Not long ago, I was sitting with a group of indie authors, and the whole table got stuck on one question: should authors use AI to write at all? Most of them were totally against it. And honestly, they had a point. We’ve all seen the results by now in books, on...
by RogerM | Oct 3, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Unseen Work
A week after I posted a tribute to my mom on Facebook, my phone lit up with one more comment. I thought the initial wave had passed. Seventy reactions, thirty-seven comments—almost all of them from the first few days. Then a colleague wrote something that stopped my...
by RogerM | Sep 26, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, The Daily Grind
I’ve started this message a dozen times in my head. And every time, I run out of words before I run out of emotions. So let me just try this again… My mom spent her last days at ICESP—São Paulo’s largest cancer center in the largest city in Brazil....
by RogerM | Sep 15, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Networking & Visibility, The Daily Grind
The clock ticked slower there. In that wing of a medical center in São Paulo, time stopped being in a hurry. You heard every tick. You felt the space between them. And you would have given anything to fill that gap with something other than what was coming. My mom...
by RogerM | Sep 4, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Unseen Work
The odds of dying in a car crash are about 1 in 95. Yet we all jump in our cars every day and go on with our lives without questioning it. The odds of dying in a plane crash are about 1 in 11 million. And somehow… people are still scared to fly. The odds of winning...
by RogerM | Aug 22, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Unseen Work
I didn’t start writing to become an author. I started writing to sell window shades. That’s the honest truth. I needed to promote my business, and someone suggested starting a blog. So I sat down and did it. In broken English, a language that wasn’t...
