Woo hoo! I just completed 30 days of writing a daily blog post. I haven’t written 30 consecutive, regular posts in a year, let alone in a month. That’s why I like 30 Day Challenges. It’s long enough to be difficult but not long enough to be daunting. You can stretch yourself but there is…
Writer’s Block is the most common manifestation of Resistance. It prevents you from getting your work onto the page. It’s the terror of the blank screen. Writer’s Block has prevented many people from doing the work that they were meant to do. Many prolific writers don’t believe writer’s block exists. For the rest of us,…
Resistance can kill your integrity. That siren call prevents you from doing what you said you would do. It makes you break your word, even if it was only to yourself. We get too used to making excuses instead of following through with commitments. It’s easier to come up with a reason why you couldn’t…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how I had been practising mindfulness, but I wasn’t sure that there were any concrete benefits yet. This weekend, I was involved in a fender bender. A driver in the right line decided he wanted to make a ninety degree left hand turn without checking to see…
When I tell people that I visualize, some of them give me a skeptical glance. I think many people associate the concept of visualization as some kind of hocus pocus that people employ with The Law of Attraction. You visualize something that you want to happen and miraculously it happens. I haven’t tried that kind…
Is there such a thing as talent? Does it exist? The more I think about it, the less likely I think it is. There’s definitely skill acquisition, but I think talent is a myth. I think we call people talented because we see the result of their hard work and perseverance. And because we see…
When I went away to university, I never thought about the impact my absence might have on my parents. I was going off on a new adventure. Life beckoned and I answered the call. I missed my family, but I never really thought about how they might have missed me. After school, I came back…
At the end of 2014, I started what I called the Genius Project. The idea was to explore the concept of putting in 10,000 hours of work and using deliberate practice towards my playwriting to achieve mastery or become a “genius” in that realm. For just over a year, I kept track of the activities…
I think I’m a treadmill snob. When I go to the gym, my favourite thing to do is run on the treadmill. I’ve always preferred cardio to weights and running is my go-to activity for cardio. But sometimes I go a little crazy inside when I see someone doing this “thing”: They crank up the…
When someone cuts me off while driving, they are a jerk. If I cut someone else off, it’s because I am in a rush or I have an important appointment. We judge others by their behaviour, but we judge ourselves by our intent. The thing is, other people judge us by our behaviour, not by…
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