We have published the 29th book in our Six-Word Lessons series.

​​Not everyone can be an expert in communication, but everyone can avoid common missteps that create misunderstandings by using practical tools to be effective and influential. Whether attending a networking event, sending an email to a client, or discussing a sensitive topic at home, you can be confident and calm applying these lessons in all your interactions.

Written by Jenni Butz, a former high school French and English teacher. Jenni now facilitates and educates as MC or keynote speaker for groups of dozens or hundreds. Embracing her life’s mission to rid the world of the overuse and misplacement of apostrophes, Jenni employs her dynamic energy and honed communication skills as a speaker at retreats and corporate training events, helping individuals practice good communication for better understanding. 

Jenni is also the author of Word Sparks: Active Meditations from God’s Word.
 
Six-Word Lessons for Effective Communication is organized into 6 easy-to-understand chapters:

1. Proactive Communication Skills: Moving Things Forward
2. Killing Me Softly: Wrecking Good Communication
3. Communicating Professionally: Making Good Impressions Last
4. Word Usage: Say What You Mean
5. When Things get Heated: Cooling Communication
6. Honor and Respect: Living it Out

To find more Six-Word Lessons books, or to write your own, go to 6WordLessons.com.

​This book is the 28th book in our Six-Word Lessons Series. It is a useful road map to the newly diagnosed patient and his or her family and friends to make their journey easier. The fewer surprises one has, the more confident and empowered one feels. Fear must be controlled as much as possible to help create a positive outcome. Six-Word Lessons for Surviving a Devastating Diagnosis offers practical tips to help calm fears, give hope, and to promote health and healing.

Written by Shirley Enebrad, author of Over the Rainbow Bridge: My son’s journey from here to Heaven, and Six-Word Lessons on Coping With Grief. Shirley is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist whose son died from Leukemia. She is a cancer survivor and patient advocate.

Also written by Christine Hurley, author of Farkles and Giggles, the Heavenly Duo. Christine has a teenaged daughter, Brianna, who is a two-time cancer survivor. She loves nature, hiking, the Pacific Northwest and helping others.

Six-Word Lessons for Surviving a Devastating Diagnosis is organized into 10 easy-to-understand chapters:

1. Symptoms to Watch for and Why
2. You Get the Diagnosis, Now What?
3. Create Support for Your Entire Family
4. Know Your Treatment and Side Effects
5. Keep Family Drama Down, Spirits Up!
6. Finances, Fees, Forms, Fails and Fixes
7. You Must Strive to Stay Positive
8. Confront Conflicts Caused by Your Illness
9. Face Your Future and Ongoing Issues
​10. What if Treatment Fails to Cure?

To see all the Six-Word Lessons books, or to find out about writing your own, go to 6WordLessons.com.

Pacelli Publishing has published its 27th book in its Six-Word Lessons series:

Six-Word Lessons for Strength-Based Business Success: 100 Lessons to Build Power, Confidence and Fortitude at Work by Kate Nugent Curtis

From athletic competition to corporate success, Six-Word Lessons for Strength-Based Business Success brings you 100 tips that are borrowed from athletes and applied to business. Translating the principles used by elite athletes, Kate shows you how to take concepts like dedication and commitment, mental strength and will power, and perseverance under pressure, and apply them directly to your next meeting or negotiation.

Written by Kate Nugent Curtis, English Channel swimmer, public speaker and communication strategist. Kate has been helping business executives succeed for over 20 years. Founder of Communication Tactics, Inc. and Grounded in Strength©, Kate applies the principles of athletic success to push performance both in and out of the conference room. Kate's insights have guided business leaders, challenged conventional thinking and delivered long-lasting results.

The book is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon, iBooks and other retailers.

Pacelli Publishing's Six-Word Lessons books contain 100 tips on various topics and can help entrepreneurs, coaches and business people promote and share their expertise in their field. Contact Patty at [email protected] to find out how to write your own and join our group of expert authors.

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was challenged by some friends to write a story using only six words.  Hemingway responded to the challenge with the following story:  For sale:  baby shoes, never worn.

The story tickles the imagination.  Why were the shoes never worn?  Were they too small?  Did the baby die? Was the baby not able to wear shoes?  Any of these are plausible explanations left up to the reader’s imagination.

This style of writing has a number of aliases:  postcard fiction, flash fiction, micro fiction, and sudden fiction.   A dear friend and fellow author, Tom Fowler, introduced me to this style of writing over coffee.  I was entranced with the style of writing and started thinking about how a sudden fiction writing style could be adapted to how-to books.  I took to task and wrote the first book, Six-Word Lessons for Project Managers.  In writing the book, I set out several guiding principles, as follows:

·       Every lesson had to be exactly six words
·       The book would have exactly 100 lessons
·       Each six-word lesson would have a brief explanation of the lesson which must fit on a single page in the book.  No droning on and on about a lesson.

I finished the book in the spring of 2009 and published it on Amazon and ebook platforms.  Here’s what a lesson looks like:

Lesson 20

Good PMs don’t boil the ocean.

Over-zealous PMs hyper-focused on pleasing their sponsor at times are too eager to inflate scope.  Keep scope right-sized to the problem statement and use seasoned advisors to help you not say “yes” too much.

After finishing the first book, it became evident to me that the six-word lessons format wasn’t specific to project management or even business for that matter.  If an author was passionate about their area of subject matter expertise, then there could be a six-word lessons book on the topic.  We now have 24 books on a wide range of topics such as being more productive, starting up a business, utilizing social media, surviving divorce, and coping with grief. Even our son Trevor wrote Six-Word Lessons on Growing Up Autistic, which describes his experience growing up with autism. Our vision is to have hundreds of six-word lessons books on just about any topic imaginable, all written by passionate subject matter experts and easy enough to read in about an hour.  Reading hundreds of pages looking for those few nuggets of wisdom is no longer necessary. Today’s reader wants concise and relevant information at their fingertips.  That’s what The Six-Word Lessons Series is all about. Come see all of our six-word lessons books at www.6wordlessons.com.  

Lonnie Pacelli is an author, entrepreneur, and creator of The Six-Word Lessons Series.