Category Archives: Awareness/Mindfulness

Ten Strategies for Organizing Your Writing Life – Part 5

Reviewing the strategies for organizing your writing life… Once you’ve taken time to get clear, read and researched, plotted out your time line and communicated it, created a personal action plan, prioritized your day, and organized your work, then…  #6. … Continue reading

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The First Step in Organizing Mindfully is to…

The first step in organizing mindfully is to connect your heart with your head. Step One: Let go. Simplify. Reduce the Flow in. Ask yourself: Why am I keeping this item? Am I ready to let go? Do I really … Continue reading

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New Year’s Resolutions that Really Work: “Whatever You Resist, Persists.”

I went to a training and learned the simple yet powerful phrase, “Whatever you resist, persists.” That training was thirty years ago, yet the idea and understanding in that pithy phrase never left me. I have thought of it many … Continue reading

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New Year’s resolutions that really work: How do you do a “don’t?”

“How do you do a don’t?” asked a young friend of mine.  Great question. Often when you want to change a behavior, you identify what you don’t want to do, and that’s a good starting point. However, though it is important to … Continue reading

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Transition: Impulse Control vs. “Mindfully Discerning”

Are you having trouble controlling your impulses? Stress, the holidays, and times of transition can cause this to happen. What to do? Author Fleet Maull wrote in his very compelling book, Dharma in Hell: “I know from experience that arbitrarily imposing strict … Continue reading

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When People’s Behavior Drives You Crazy

If you’re a creative professional, or going through a transition, consider this: How do you interpret people’s behavior? If it’s your behavior, you say it’s due to your circumstances. If it’s someone else’s behavior, do you say it’s their character? … Continue reading

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