Though each milestone—brand new years, birthdays, anniversaries—makes us think about our lives, I love the end of January for setting our goals. The pressure of the “New Year, New You” drifts away with the revelry of the holidays and we can think clearly. What will…
Are you feeling guilty about your abandoned resolution? At the beginning of the year, it’s difficult to resist making a resolution or at least picking some big goal to achieve in the coming months. We pick projects and then throw our bodies and souls into…
Sometimes, sleeping on it isn’t an option. Our brains won’t let the problem go and continue to whip it up into our consciousness. When this happens, I feel like I have a hamster in my head, leaping onto his wheel and running. The creaking, whirring…
Monday evening, I opened my elderly copy of Quickbooks and began cleaning up—again. Each January, I do this. I do bookkeeping for others during the day, but working on my own books at night holds no interest for me. I’ll sit on the couch and…
So much of stamina is being able to return again and again to something. Often, we approach our work feeling a little discouraged. We think we’re invisible. We think no one cares. But what if we’re doing it just because we want to? Our creative…
Stamina, otherwise known as the ability to keep going, runs through the blood of every successful creative and business person. We build our stamina bit by bit, training ourselves to do the work to reach our goals. But why do we take the time to…
Transformation seems like magic. When we think of transformation, we think of magicians turning a beautiful lady into a pacing tiger – something amazing and fast and done with a whirl of a magic wand. We think of the butterfly the caterpillar becomes, flying loopily…
Yesterday, I took the dogs for a walk. Rain and snow had left the road covered in a treacherous mixture of wet asphalt and black ice. Areas where shadows remained the day before still retained white ice spread across the road, and snow coated the…
Should. This familiar word wraps me up in its arms and holds me close, filling me with guilt and comforting me with an apology to the world. It’s familiar in its unrelenting judgment. The addictive powers of Should pull me into their welcome grasp and…
I was walking the dogs the other day and accidentally dropped Ty’s leash. At the time, I was focusing solely on inserting our other dog’s poop pile in a plastic bag and didn’t even realize I’d lost it. Ty, our little terrier, walked and sniffed…