The Other Possibility
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Other Possibility There are certain things and situations we tend to shy away from. Either because of bad experience or because they don’t correspond to our natural preference. Whichever the case, in those situations it’s easy to anticipate a negative outcome, and it’s understandable. We don’t feel...
Own The Place
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Own The Place A while ago I was working for a company (as a day job) and did some marketing stuff and other work for them. The problem was that the offices were in a style that might have been modern several decades ago and in...
How To Make Tasks Ridiculously Simple
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How To Make Tasks Ridiculously Simple You know that feeling, right? You sit down to write, or to work on something else, and you’re just struggling with moving forward. The work you do seems hard, it doesn’t flow and there doesn’t seem to be an end...
Answer Your Questions
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Answer Your Questions I carried a question around with me for at least the last month or so. I was nearing a deadline and I had to make a decision. But I was unable to. And the nearer I got to the deadline, the more stressful it got...
Decision Time
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Decision Time How did you feel when you started out writing? Why did you to it? Was it curiosity? Did you have a story inside you that needed to be told? Did you want to get rich and famous? Whatever the reason, I’d bet most of us - if not...
When Do You Shine
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] When Do You Shine Pressure in and of itself is not a bad thing. It forces us to get out of our comfort zones, do things that we are not used to, make experiments, keep learning. The problem with pressure comes if it’s too much and not...
Everything Is Easier For Beautiful People
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Everything Is Easier For Beautiful People It’s pretty easy to see things that we want in others. And then we envy them. Or we might get angry about the fact that they have it and we don’t. We see the goals that they have already reached. Their status. Their successes. Their...
The Emotional Bull Ride
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Emotional Bull Ride I did competitive latin american formation dance for a while. In case you’ve never seen this, it’s a group of 8 couples performing a 6-minute routine of a variation of latin american dances and all the movements are synchronized and have to...
The Unexpected Reaction
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Unexpected Reaction Some time ago I read in a book that above the age of 30, most of what we do is done out of habit. We don’t think about it. We’ve done the things we do so often, they’ve become second nature. But as writers...
I Hate Doing That
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] I Hate Doing That Writer’s Life. I think everyone of us has a vision of how their own writer’s life should look like. But in this vision we tend to see only the beautiful things about it and not the whole picture. That’s okay, because we also have...