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Journal Writing for Change

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Change was the theme for both parties this past campaign.

When we are in a national state of change it is a perfect opportunity to begin your own journal of change.

Life Review: take the time to review your  the past six month’s of your life. What did you accomplish? Is there an area that you would like to improve? Maybe your health was not up to par. Or you are not as fully engaged in your creative life as you hoped.

Setting Goals:  Use Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009 as end point.

Goal Examples:

  • On January 20 I will have written 4 chapters of my book.
  • By January 20 I will be walking 4 x’s a week for 20 minutes.
  • January 20 I will have made changes each day to improve my attitude.

On January 20 celebrate your inauguration into a new healthy and creative you.

But don’t stop there- set some goals for the year. Each day take a step towards reaching your goals.

Read this. . .

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Here is a link to a Reader’s Digest article with John Updike. Below is a sampling.  I aspire to the multiple writing rooms. I would like to start with a room with a view.

Q: Ever suffer from writer’s block?

A: Every day there’s a struggle. I think, Is this worth doing? Am I doing it well? Then there’s the gratuitousness of writing fiction–of writing about people who don’t exist. But there are many privileges in a freelance, self-employed life. Writing every day is a small price.

Q: Give us a tour of the three desks you have at home.

A: We moved into an old summer-house built on a patrician scale. I took the maids’ quarters, above the kitchen-four small rooms plus a bath. In the room with a wooden desk and a typewriter, I write mail. In the room with a steel desk and a view of the sea, I read proofs and write by hand. A third room has a white desk and a computer for final drafts and longer letters. And the fourth, where I read, has an easy chair.