A couple of months ago, I did a post about my morning routine and wrote how I tried to make time each morning to write in my journal. It’s a hit or miss thing, but lately I’ve noticed that I’ve really been able to resolve a lot of inner conflict after I've taken the opportunity to journal it out. Problems that I’ve come across in my life seem to resolve themselves more quickly when I’m able to write freely about them. There has been lots of research about the benefits of journaling, which I’m ...
Writing
Finding the Perfect Writing Routine
Despite my best efforts, the perfect writing routine has eluded me for years. I thought it was because I was unmotivated, or that I had writer’s block, or because my stories were unoriginal or insert any number of excuses. However, I think my biggest problem was that I just wasn’t consistent enough and didn’t really identify myself as a writer. Check out my Be, Do, Have post to see what I mean. Since I changed my mindset a couple of months ago, I’ve found that ideas and words have come ...
Perseverance and How to Defeat the Overwhelm
Perseverance is the word and concept that has been presenting itself to me for the past couple of weeks. It’s not a word that I have ever really thought much about, but after coming across it several times throughout my reading and journaling, I’ve come to realize that I need to analyze it a bit more than I had originally thought. It’s also become evident that my feelings of overwhelm are a common thing that I deal with, like most of us, and I need to deal with this one step at a time. How ...
Goals to Accomplish Roundup:2
Have you ever had one of those random goals or dreams that sits in the back of your mind and ruminates for days, weeks, months or even years? It’s a dream that you may not think about often, or even really try and pursue because it seems a little ridiculous or not that important. I’ve had such a goal for the past, oh let’s see, about 17 years. It’s nothing that was major on my bucket list, and something that wouldn’t have really been that difficult to achieve if I had just gone out and done it ...
Goals to Accomplish Roundup:1
It has officially been one month since I've started this blog, and I'm still in it to win it! Since I set that long list of goals to accomplish, I thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and give a run down of what I've been doing to actually achieve these goals. I hate to admit to everyone, including myself, that I'm not nearly as far along with these objectives as I'd hoped. Oh well. Baby steps are better than no steps, right? At least I made some progress, which is what I will focus on ...
Writing goals: a writer’s journey into the unknown
Writing is one of those things that you probably either enjoy or cringe at the thought of. For some people, they can look at a blank screen or page and tense up at the thought of filling it with words, but for others, the clicking of keyboard keys or the scribbling of fountain pen to paper is a sound as enticing as a siren calling to a sailor. Letting words flow from them is as satisfying as taking a bite into the most glorious piece of chocolate cake, it must be done to satisfy their ...