Are you a new year's resolution kind of person? Or do you go with the flow? I like to think I'm a combination; I plan my intentions, the steps I need to take to reach them, and I celebrate the victories. However, I am very flexible if what I thought I wanted turns out to be not exactly what I ... Read More about New Year Now What?
Planning for the New Year
I am a planner. I'm always trying out new tools, ideas, and platforms. I'm not discontented with the current system, I just want to make sure that I'm using everything available to me. Planning for the new year, in December is my favorite thing to do, although I have done this each season, quarter, ... Read More about Planning for the New Year
A New Take on Morning Pages
What are morning pages? They're basically a tool in the Artist's Way program. If you're not familiar, check out the link. The idea is to write three pages every morning to help with your creative process. I've been doing them, on and off for decades. I put them down again a couple of years ago and ... Read More about A New Take on Morning Pages
Therapy
It has been a minute since I wrote anything on this site. I’ve been having a hard time with some things and I just thought I would put it all out here. Maybe you can take something away from this, maybe my struggles will lessen yours. I hope so, at least. A little more than a year ago, I started ... Read More about Therapy
Ten Ways to Get Rid of the Suckies
What do you do when you've got a deadline, self imposed or otherwise, and you just can't seem to get out of your own way?Any number of things can trigger it, a not so nice review, a Monday morning, an angry phone call, an unpaid bill, even something as simple as the weather. We've all had them and ... Read More about Ten Ways to Get Rid of the Suckies
Jump Start Your Life
I have a very long history of planning. I started with a Franklin Covey planner two decades ago and I have had quite the journey. You can read about it here. Along the way, I created a program I call "Jump Start". Whether you're new to planning, or need a bit of a reset, This might be just what ... Read More about Jump Start Your Life
Support Systems – Creating Yours
Support Systems Don't Have to be TrickySo, you're on the right path - you know what you want to accomplish and you've broken down your goals into actionable steps, you've scheduled these things into your calendar and you're rarin' to go! Now what? Do you have a support system there to ... Read More about Support Systems – Creating Yours
Breaking Free of Shame
It seems that everyone is talking about shame lately. What it is, where it comes from and how to deal with it. Whether it's from childhood, a shame that you've carried for decades, a situation where you were the victim, yet somehow have taken on the shame as if it was your fault that you ... Read More about Breaking Free of Shame
I Don’t Recognize Her
First, a little back story... Once upon a time, I was a food blogger. I compiled my recipes one December and made them into an eBook. Each following year, in December, I would collect the recipes from the past year and add them to the cookbook. I'd redesign the cover, and change the ... Read More about I Don’t Recognize Her
Just Do It
So many times, I've hesitated to try something, to put myself "out there" with something I was doing. I really spent a lot of time worrying about what people would think. Would they like what I was doing? Would they judge me? Could I be offending someone? I finally just had to let that shit go ... Read More about Just Do It