Deadlines
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Choose One Goal
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Choose one goal. Make it a big goal. Don’t wimp out now. Or, choose many creative goals you would like fulfilled. Support is available in this monthly column and online course.
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In Celebration of Life
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. ~ Floyd Dell
In America we are tormented by the calendar. We are obsessed with filling in our days with something. I took a week off to do nothing and I did not do it well. I was tired and rest was on the [...]
Beating Resistance: The Fulfilled Life, Create It Now!
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008BEATING RESISTANCE: THE FULFILLED LIFE, CREATE IT NOW!
“There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t and the secret is this: it’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.”
~ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Writing With Your Heart
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008If your writing is not interesting to you, it will not be exciting to anyone else. Take some time to think about what you would like to really write. What makes your heart beat faster when you think about doing it? Write with your heart and meeting deadlines will be worth the effort.
Time Thieves
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The Myth of Time: Improve Your Life One Deadline at a Time
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
~ Douglas Noel Adams, English humorist and science fiction novelist
Before writing I had to find the right music to play. There were the writing books to look through. After all, the experts have all done it before me so I can [...]