The Internet in my area was down for three days. I haven’t been able to post to my blog. I haven’t been able to respond to my coaching clients. I haven’t been able to surf the net — my nervous habit “fix.” It’s awful to be dependent on technology when it has control of you. …
Most people worry about writer’s block. I don’t believe in writer’s block. Doing writing practice knocked that out of me long ago. I’ve learned to sit down and just start writing. It took some time because I couldn’t write at the keyboard at first. I had to put the words on paper to make them …
Know what’s really tough? Having people you love grow old and sick. That’s part of life, I know. I’m a mortician’s daughter. Life and death have been a regular part of my life since birth. That doesn’t take the sting out of witnessing the process of people you love getting closer to the end of …
Do you remember the Y2K phenomenon when so many people thought the world would end? Now we are one month away from being seven years into the new Millennium. It’s not the technology that we have to worry about so much anymore as major areas of unrest in the world like Iraq, Iran, North Korea. …
I’m really ticked that I don’t seem to get my blood pressure under control. I became concerned about High Blood Pressure when my husband started having problems with his. I nagged him about what he was eating, his exercise routine and getting enough fresh air and rest. My mom even had a problem until l …
I help people write academic papers including dissertations. While it can be thrilling to see these types of masterpieces take shape, it can also be extremely frustrating. The Internet has become the new sweetheart to online writers providing just enough information and support research for web based articles and other online writing. But when it comes to writing academic articles or doing scientific based research, Internet sources are not your friend. I try to get this across to students all the time, but we live in an internet world.
Procrastination can keep you from finishing. Finishing is precious. Creatives, that is, writers and similar artists need to stay focused to get finished. Finishing is how we advance in our art. But finishing can also be a problem because of the big “P” factor, that being procrastination. Procrastinating or putting things off is common when you don’t like what you do. Who wants to stay involved with what doesn’t make them happy. But what about doing something you really enjoy? That’s when procrastinating to the point of never finishing becomes a mystery.
