The scariest moment is always just before you start. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft There comes a time in everyone’s life – several times, if you’re fortunate – where you’re presented a chance to do something special. Something that is firmly outside your comfort zone, yet directly on the path you’ve …
Success is about handling the setbacks, problems and mess, over and over. Sharon Pearson Pictured above: Pain. And, no, not just because I’m out of town and don’t have access to anything to make it less ugly. Because of the obvious part – the fact that you could look back to the first entry and …
Let us cultivate our garden. Voltaire, Candide I’d like to revive something I had previously set up. Some of you might recall the 30-Day Projects page that I ran on Facebook. For those of you that don’t, I’ll recap. The idea was to have people post their plan of something to accomplish over the next …
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney Title’s a bit on the mark from last week’s post, but no, this has nothing to do with that. I’m back to a more inward focus, which seems well overdue given how immensely far behind I am in my self-imposed obligations. …
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald In the closing paragraph of my post on rationalization, I mentioned that I was coming up on a few months of extreme workload. Now that I’m here for the one month recap, I realize I never actually got into what that meant, so …
I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre This week …
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. Dwight D. Eisenhower This article was one of the first I wanted to make back when I started this whole thing, but it never felt like the right time. Every week there was something more relevant or too far disjointed for a good …
The problem with “everything” is that it ends up looking an awful lot like nothing: just one long haze of frantic activity, with all the meaning sheared away. Katherine May, Wintering: How I learned to flourish when life became frozen One of the most unfortunate things about humanity is that experience makes our best teacher. …
It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free It’s been one of those weeks. You know the kind. Sunday night you go to bed ready for the morning, head full of plans and the energy to hit …
She burns like the sun // and I can’t look away // and she’ll burn our horizons // make no mistake. Muse, Sunburn Back when I was first mulling the idea of creating this site, this article was the first I conceived and was planned to be the first put one published post-launch. It’s about …
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