Tiffany Sunday

Author | Speaker | TEDx Presenter

Poetry

Author Tiffany Sunday, Signing Books at Barnes & Noble SMU, February 13, 2020

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Thursday, February 13, 2020, 6:00 PM

Barnes & Noble SMU 3060 Mockingbird Ln, Dallas, TX 75205

Poet Tiffany Sunday will discuss her work and latest book, Insatiable Consumption of Being: A Collection of Poems, Writings and Micro Stories.

The event is free with book sales and signing to follow.

Her latest book, Insatiable Consumption of Being marks her transition from business writing to poetry and contemporary fiction.

Tiffany started writing poetry in third grade and was first published in high school. She writes about nature, human creativity, self-reliance, and relationships. 

To Be A Robot or Not? 1300 Miles to Barstow, CA.

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For the past five years, I have been working to complete two books: Are You Ready for the Future of Work and Never Again She, She Said. I wrote Are You Ready manuscript in the fall of 2015. Never Again was started in the fall of 2016.

My goal for Are You Ready was to produce a book that provided realistic insight into how much predictive analytics and artificial intelligence would impact employment. The second part of the book examined the parallel trends between the Gilded Age (the 1870s and 1920s) and now.

Several publishing advisors in January 2016 thought the book was too early for the market.  I disagree, and the manuscript was shelved.  In 2017 and 2018 disruption and digital transformation books flooded the market.

To save my work and research from Are You Ready manuscript, I included three chapters in my third book, How Dyslexics Will Rule the Future. The book discusses the impact of advanced technologies and how automation will replace many of the jobs and tasks humans perform.  What jobs remain will require creative cognitive individuals who problem-solve using human ingenuity.

In August 2019, my son and I drove from Dallas, Texas to Watsonville California.  The experience was life-changing and provided a fresh perspective.

Today, Wednesday, September 11, 2019, I withdrew Are You Ready for the Future of Work from the publisher for many reasons. I am thankful my team understands and we are discussing the possibility of developing a book from my road trip to California.

I learned more about who I am writing Are You Ready and believe the book was a personal journey and the manuscript was not meant for publication.

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Making Every Word Count

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Tiffany Sunday 2017

With the abundance of digital communication, we can write millions of words a day. In my day job, I average around 30,000 words a week.

In our firehouse style of content generation should we curate to make sure every word counts? To look upon each word, to determine if it has real meaning in the sentence or has the word been delegated as a space holder.

I am challenging myself, to think about the words I select at work and in my personal novels and books. Each word should count and not be digitally typed as if we had millions of them to spare. I believe the human brain only gives attention to the words that matter.

Something Different

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Most of what I write publicly is work-related, yet my passion as a writer is creative, crafting stories and imagines from words. Since junior high, I have been writing song lyrics, poems, and short stories.  Hundreds of lyrics created, some kept the rest tossed.

After How Dyslexics Will Rule the Future is published, I will take a break from writing business books to focus on completing my first novel and publishing a children book series I’ve created.

Here are two poems I wrote.  Salt was written at a restaurant while Brandon met with his tutor.  The second poem was written listening to the remix of Blondie’s Heart of Glass by Philip Glass.

Listening to music, driving, and running are my favorite sources of inspiration, I can listen to a song and ideas for novels, lyrics and screenplays easily flow through my thoughts.

Salt
Calories never counted
Focus is food
To escape while thinking nothing, watching the nightly news
Row after row of generic tables filled with people
Sitting in silence while consuming less than nothing paying more than they should
Emptiness fills the space, accepting how life will be
Hope provides energy, doubt drains leaving a void
He cleans without ever knowing the native language
Earns just enough to send home, a place he hasn’t seen years
Memories fade, people grow old
Workers stare at the clock thinking of where they want to be
Dreaming of a better life
Knowing in the end they’ll be sitting in the rows eating food with too many empty calories.

© Copyright 2011-2018 Dillon 5 LLC and Tiffany Sunday. All Rights Reserved.

Unexpected Event 
Stillness
No motion
She sits quietly at the train station
Waiting
Trains speed past to their destination
Hot wind from the motion blows her hair
Waiting
Until he returns
She sits alone on the bench
Staring at the track
Ignoring passengers
Never seeing the janitor
She waits
Thinking he’ll return
With each tick of the clock,
Life goes by in a blur of mix memories
She attempts to bury,
To erase,
The pain she carries inside

© Copyright 2011-2018 Dillon 5 LLC and Tiffany Sunday. All Rights Reserved.

Why A Book Must Be On Everyone’s Holiday Gift List

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In case you are wondering, this is not a blog post listing the top ten business books to read for the holidays.  Nope, this post is different. It’s about the importance of stories and reading.

As an author, I am always asking people what books they like to read.  With two new books slated for publication in 2018, I need to know my market.

I can peg a person’s response to their facial expression.  It’s that frustrated look, “Why would I read a book now, I’m out of school.”  Or “Oh, she’s going to recommend another boring business book. Ugh.” Insert eye rolling emoji.

The majority of the responses all include, “I don’t have time to read because…” We spend hundreds of hours each week reading blog posts, text messages, FB posts etc.  Ironically, we read blog posts about which books successful people are reading.

The book list is unimportant.

What matters most is that these leaders schedule time to read.

The thought leaders, we admire, read a wide range of books including novels, history, biographies and business leadership.  All books contain stories even non-fiction which highlights case studies. We remember stories, we relate to stories, and use stories to help us navigate our jobs, personal relationships, challenges, and events in our lives.

Without these stories, we have a limited mental library to retrieve examples for guidance. Since the beginning of mankind, we’ve used stories to build communities, pass down information, and form bonds needed for survival.

Today is no different.  We need stories; we need this foundation.  Purchasing a book for yourself and everyone on your holiday list is important.

Reading is the gateway to society. If a child does not read by the age of seven, they are at risk of missing the gateway.  Once the opportunity passes, it is extremely difficult to gain access.

The ability read (insert assistive technology if needed to help with reading) is the second most important skill humans’ must possess.  The ability to communicate is first.

As you build your holiday shopping list, take the time to visit your local bookstore or Amazon.  Think about the stories you crave to read.  What problem are you mentally seeking to solve? Go to the library; walk through the quiet aisles glancing at the titles. What book catches your eye?

Better yet, go to the children’s section look at the stories.  Last month, I discovered while walking through Barnes and Noble – What Do You Do With An Idea by Kobi Yamada.  I absolutely love the book and believe everyone should read it.

Books, regardless how you read them are important, they provide us with a rich depth of stories that we use daily to solve problems.  Even non-fiction has a place because we gain knowledge and a different perspective.

Included in this post are images of the current books I am reading.  I will be stopping by Half Price Books and Barnes & Noble to purchase gifts.

Remember – reading by the fireplace is a great way to unplug and enjoy the holidays!

Nothing Is Ever Gained Chasing the Approval of Others

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This morning, I’m focused on why we constantly seek approval from others before we make a decision. Are we afraid to fail or do we prefer to let someone else take the responsibility? Often to feel good about ourselves, we seek approval from a specific person or group of people.

Why is their approval so important? Have you ever regretted the decision you made based on their approval? I have, more than once and its sucks. Because you end up spending mental resources, rehashing your regret for seeking their approval and the time you wasted. I’ve learned regret can propel you to make changes or not. There is no middle ground with regret.

I believe gaining an awareness of when we are seeking approval, especially when we are seeking it from the wrong people, is one of the most important action we can take. If not, we will forever remain in the vicious cycle of giving our power away while wasting time waiting on someone else’s opinion of us.

When we seek out approval, we’re really saying — I don’t have the guts to make this decision. When the person says yes or no, we are released from the taking ownership of the decision.

But most of the time, these people are wrong. Because their response is based on their worldview, their perspective, and what they think of us. What we often forget is that family members and friends can have dated views.

I wrote this post because once again, I find myself at the same crossroad I was at two years ago. I sought the approval of two individuals, neither which have recognized or accepted that I have changed. I can see that now.

Their disapproval and advice then and now does not match where I am at in my life and career. The difference is so vast; it’s like we’re on different planets. We all have family members and people in our lives who refuse to change their worldview.

When you change, it challenges their thinking. They don’t want to change how they think of you. They work to make you feel guilty about your actions because they don’t want to make the effort to change or are incapable of accepting the new you.

Their opinions become irrelevant and are a waste of time.

Seeking approval from others is based on our internal fears of making a mistake or being seen as a failure. If people judge you solely on your mistakes, then rethink your relationship.

Learn to trust your gut intuition. Your gut knows when we’re on the right track and when are off rail. I know from experience and have had my gut scream at me several times recently because I was not listening. In the next week, I will make a major decision about my career and not seek the approval of others.

You know deep down exactly what you need to do. Your voice is there…learn to listen to your gut. Think, what would you do right now if you stopped seeking approval from everyone including your parents, girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, teacher, boss, friends, neighbor, brother, sister, be sure to include the people who you are trying to prove wrong.

What would you do? What would you change? What thoughts went through your mind — no filters!!

If nothing came to mind — then think about that too? Why have you shut everything down? Is it because of others’ opinion of you? Why are you willing to let these people direct your life? Why?

Why are we all so afraid to be ourselves? I think the fear of what others will think traps us, leaving us unable to move forward.

I’m done giving my power away. I am done allowing others to make decisions about my life when they know nothing about who I am. I am done seeking approval and have made a promise to myself to eliminate this negative habit