Monica Laurence

Two rounds of book cover designs. Something wasn’t clicking. I kept pushing forward anyway. The designer was talented. The concepts were solid. But every time I looked at the drafts for “Lucky by Design,” I felt… nothing. The covers were flat. The kind that end up in the bargain bin, […]

The moment you realize you’re chasing opportunities at networking events is the moment you should start changing your frequency. Every year I adopt a word. For 2025, I chose “magnetic.” And wow. What a year. Opportunities didn’t just arrive, they flowed. Incredible people didn’t just appear, they reached out. I wasn’t

I braced for red ink. I got resonance instead. Last week I announced my first book Lucky by Design was complete. Now it’s with beta readers—that vulnerable stage where your manuscript lands in other people’s hands and you wait. Here’s what the behind-the-scenes actually looks like: 14 readers. Two weeks. A simple

I finished writing my book on New Year’s Eve. Not at midnight with champagne in hand—a few hours earlier, alone at my desk in Denver, staring at the final paragraph of Lucky by Design. Then I closed my laptop, slipped into something sparkly, and walked into a swanky cocktail bar to

Your success in 2026 won’t come from working harder. Three Italian mathematicians proved it. They won the 2022 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics for discovering why we start with a normal distribution of talent but end with a power law distribution of success. Their finding? The most successful people aren’t

“It was nothing, really.” How many times did you say that this week? When someone thanked you for the gift, complimented your cooking, or acknowledged your effort? We’ve mastered the art of giving. But receiving? That’s where we stumble. My Gonny understood something most of us miss. When we’d scribble