And getting ready for Q2 I have big goals. Like, best selling author big goals. I’ve had them since I was in the fifth grade. I still haven’t published a single book. Before the last year, I haven’t finished writing a book since high school. …

Forcing myself to use what I already have to spark new ways of thinking I, like a lot of creative people I know, have a ton of supplies for my hobbies. More than I need, and yet, I still will go out and buy more. …

Using a little accountability to get words on the page I very rarely do writing meet-ups. I’m easily distractible so I don’t want to feed into that. But with everything that happened in the last few years, I was feeling the need to be around other writers. I went to…

Trying out new ways to focus I am a serial procrastinator and I hate it. If there was a 12 step program to fix it, I would go. Sometime. Later. One of the biggest places my procrastination kills me is in my writing life. I get distracted easily and will…

Continuing recharging my creativity through November In my last post, I discussed my plan of taking a month off to heal and recharge. And deal with the death of a family member. It was wonderful. I got back to writing and crafting. I got ahead of my schedule and made…

An unexpected experiment. What started out as a relaxing month has become so much more. But perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself. I quit my job at the end of September. At the time, I was physically and mentally worn out. What had started as a fun job coaching kids…

Fine tuning my organization. I will neither confirm nor deny that I’m where planners go to die. It took me forever to find something that stuck for more than a week. And even then it took multiple tries to get it right. Part of that is I see so many…

My annual testing of my fitness This year’s Tough Mudder looked a little different than last years. Not because we’re back to a bunch of people on the course (although it meant waiting for obstacles). Not because they added a 10K course and renamed the Classic to 15K. Nope, this…

Answering some hard questions to help put my life on track. At the beginning of the month, I started something called Six Months for Life. It’s a concept thought up by the YouTuber and author, Sarra Cannon, and something that’s right along with my current life journey. One of the…