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 | Growth & Mindset, Networking & Visibility, Unseen Work
A few years ago, my wife Ana joined an online English meetup group to polish her conversational skills. Students were paired completely at random. She was matched with a woman named Natalia, who lived in Russia. It started as standard small talk—just getting to know...
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...
by RogerM | Aug 6, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Unseen Work
She was a teenager when she climbed into her cousin’s truck and rode 3,000 miles to São Paulo. No plan. No safety net. Just a young girl leaving her home state behind, betting that anywhere had to be better than where she came from. A Childhood Built on Grit My...
