We took down the Christmas tree last week. The ornaments came off. The lights were untangled. Everything went back into their boxes. The boxes went back on the shelves in the basement. The tree was bare. And then it went outside for pickup. It is just Deb and me, again. There are still some remnants…
I missed celebrating an anniversary last October. No, it wasn’t my wedding anniversary. I remembered that. Last October marked the tenth year that I have been blogging. Wow. I’ve blogged in fits and starts over the years. And the subjects of my posts have ranged all over the place. There was my “year of living…
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…
Sometimes we set a goal for ourselves and we don’t quite make it. Maybe we don’t come anywhere near reaching it. Do we give up? If it’s a worthy goal, you carry on. Or start over. Fall down three times and get up four times. It’s the getting up and retrying or starting over that…
Just do it. Such simple advice, yet so easy to ignore. I’ve only written 5 blog posts in almost two years. It’s not because of a lack of things to write about. Like most writers, I have tons of ideas. But getting the ideas onto the page (or screen) is the challenge. It’s frustrating because…
Tomorrow I start a new job. It’s funny how the working life affects the creative life. For years, I had a routine that seemed to work very well. I would write and/or read on my commute to work, taking tiny steps towards a project. If I had a deadline, I would also do some work…
Here I am trying to get this update in before the month ends… As usual. December was a good month for the Genius Project. It was actually my best year of 2015, which is surprising because it was a very busy month with work and family activities. It just goes to show that committing to…
The temptation was to put off writing my update for November so soon because I had just posted my update for October, but if I’ve learned anything it’s don’t put things off. Time has a way of interfering with the best intentions. Usually when I’m late posting an update, it’s because I’m having a challenging…
Wow. I am late getting my October update out. Usually, the later my update the worse the current month is going; which means that November should have been pretty bad. But it wasn’t. I had started this update early in November and then got distracted. So here is October’s update. November will follow soon. I…
This was the first month that I was able to stay on track for the Genius Project in a long time. The key to doing it was taking baby steps and focusing on the process instead of the product. In terms of overall time, this was my best month so far with 43.75 hours on…
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