Do you keep a journal only or mostly when you are unhappy? Ever wondered if venting on paper actually helps, or if it simply mires you deeper in the muck? There have been numerous research studies on writing to heal and the evidence is pretty clear. Evidence for Writing to[…]
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You Are NOT Lazy. 18 Ways to Overcome Resistance
Are you really just a lazy, undisciplined good-for-nothing procrastinator when you don’t do what you say you want to do? Do you need to take yourself in hand, buckle down, and smarten up? Or is there maybe, just maybe, a darn good reason for that brick wall standing between you[…]
Big Rocks: My All-Time Favourite Productivity Tip
There are degrees of busyness. Crazy busy, I believe, belongs only to people in the workforce. They are the ones with a zillion things to do at both work and home, often with few people available to help in either location. If you are working and you don’t know about[…]
Why This Year’s Vision Board is a Game Changer
I’ve noticed (word of the year!) that this year’s vision board is a radical departure from those of yesteryears. Reflecting on that little fact led me to the conclusion that there are actually three different categories of vision boards, each serving their own purpose. Version #1: The Fortune Teller Vision[…]
Some Musings About Purpose
It has been ages since I’ve written more than one post in a week. I wasn’t intending to write a second one this week. But then I read Profound Journey Tribe member Pat’s thought-provoking post about a purpose-filled retirement. Pat is thinking about whether it’s okay to be “self-indulgent and[…]
How to Make Changes the Kaizen Way
Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy. To make changes the kaizen way is to take small steps, rather than large leaps, with the goal of continuous improvement. It’s what writers do when they focus on the day’s page of work rather than the hundreds of pages still to be written. Or[…]
Don’t Know What to Do? How to Make Better Decisions
I used to think I was hot stuff when it came to making good decisions. I didn’t realize that in my closed little world of work, work, and more work, I was committed to just putting one foot in front of the other. There really weren’t that many decisions to[…]
Happy to Be Lost. Searching for a New Identity in Retirement
The last time I wrote about retirement, I was feeling pretty smug. Oh sure, I acknowledged that I was still in the neutral zone of transition–that chaotic, fluid time of possibilities. But I had ideas for three books I might write so I ended the post suggesting that I was[…]
How to Craft Your Ideal Day… and Live It
Sometimes I write about what I know. And sometimes I write about what I need to learn. This post falls into the second category. I am failing at the task of living my best life. Since life is a series of days, one after another, I know that I need[…]
The Myth of the 21 Day Habit
Do you remember playing the game Telephone when you were a child? You would whisper a comment to a friend who would repeat it to another friend and so on through several people. When the whispered comment finally came back to you, it was unrecognizable. Belief in the 21 day[…]