Goals
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.
© 2008 Sandra Lee Schubert www.writing-for-life.com
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 […]
Making Dreams True
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.”
~ Unknown
Follow Your Longing
When you’re sitting quietly sipping a cup of tea - pay attention to your idle daydreams. Do you find yourself sighing about leaving for work? What is the wish that comes right after the sigh? […]
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: Create your own wild garden of creativity.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008First, get outside. Take along your pen and paper, even a camera or drawing pad. Walk around your neighborhood and see it for the first time. Imagine you are a tourist. What is your first impression? Notice the colors, smells and sounds of where you live. Write about it from that point of view. If […]
Planting Seeds ~ One Word at a Time
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008“Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can’t see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can’t design or ordain.” ~ Sharon Salzberg, […]



