Sometimes when I wake in the morning I don’t give a hoot about anything except for staying in bed. I understand theoretically that I love and believe in all sorts of things, but they feel distant. At the moment, all I care about is snoozing. It’s one example of a kind of behavior that we… Continue reading Why You Need to Trick Yourself to Write
Category: goals
Use Freewriting To Accomplish Impossible Goals
I like to set impossible goals and impossible expectations. Partly because it’s inspiring to achieve what was previously believed to be impossible. Huge goals are impressive. The shadow side of this tendency is to set impossible expectations because it leads to a kind of failure that supports my negative beliefs. It goes like this: I… Continue reading Use Freewriting To Accomplish Impossible Goals
Stick With It… Until the Onion is Peeled [Writing / Goals]
Writing isn’t hard. Compared to other challenges life brings, writing isn’t even remotely difficult. Writing for a sustained period, however, takes courage. Writing and finishing a project takes bravery. More bravery than most people realize. Nonwriters have only had a taste of this in school or when maybe writing a poem for their lover when… Continue reading Stick With It… Until the Onion is Peeled [Writing / Goals]
A Rant About the Small Ways We Think Big
He knows himself greatly who never opposes his genius William Blake I’m writing today to see if I can add something to the ongoing discussions people have around goal setting and achievement. I’m basing this post on my own experience of pursuing various goals at various stages. I have experienced hits and misses based on… Continue reading A Rant About the Small Ways We Think Big
Perfectionism, Burnout, and Finishing What You Start
I don’t know about you, but I love to start new projects. It’s almost like a high I get from some drug. I see the whole world through a different lens. It’s not just me that feels inspired. Everything looks different to me. Anything seems doable. At first when you begin a new writing project… Continue reading Perfectionism, Burnout, and Finishing What You Start