New Year Wishes
It’s after 9 am here and it’s just me and the cats awake right now (in fact, I think it’s just me and one of the cats). Hubby is sleeping off his celebration and Kiddo is sleeping off being rather...
View ArticleI Just Shipped It!
After a ridiculously long gestation period, I finally put the finishing touches on the e-book Mike and I started back in 2008. It was the first project in my 11for11 list and there are other facets to...
View ArticleClearing Inventory
Now that the biggest hurdle of 11for11 has been cleared, I’m moving on to the next project: stocking my Creative Miscellany store on Zibbet. I made the decision last fall to buy a lifetime membership...
View ArticleProject Progress
It’s been two months since I kicked off my 11for11 challenge for myself and I thought it was time for an update. I was ridiculously pleased to cross off the first item — finishing Home Staging in a...
View ArticleRerailing
Rerailing is the opposite of derailing and it’s what I need to do to get my 11for11 project back on track. I’m not sure how I got derailed, exactly but I think I just convinced myself I was done with...
View ArticlePurpose Party Part One
Right about now you might be asking, “What the hell is a Purpose Party?” Luckily, I’m about to tell you. About 5 months ago (sometime in early December) a few of us started commiserating over the fact...
View ArticleWriting Priorities
Regular readers may know I have a lot on the go at any given time… one of the things that takes a lot of my time is writing — blogging, articles, poetry, and books — not that I am complaining. On the...
View ArticleProject Progress and Procrastination
Ah, procrastination. How much a part of me are you? As some whiny cowboy once said, “I wish I knew how to quit you.” You may recall that I started my 11for11 goal with great promise in January. I even...
View ArticleSquirrels, Elephants, Mosquitoes, and Chupacabras
Last night I attended a session on Idea Management (with Mike Vardy). It reminded me of a lot of the goal management techniques I learned when we did the Purpose Party weekend (with Bruce Elkin), some...
View ArticleCompounded Guilt
I recently found myself in that endless cycle of feeling guilty about stuff I haven’t done — I haven’t prepared the garden, I haven’t published the SmoothieJune Book –and now it’s June!! — I haven’t...
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