I did it again. After my near burnout experience, I worked way beyond my capacity and fell in the bed exhausted and devastated. I still hadn’t finished my work. I kept on going back to the computer to keep editing the article, […]
Every year, I spend the last week of December contemplating the year that has passed and planning the next one. I set goals and write them in my daily diary where they are in front of my eyes all the time. This […]
I stood in the middle of my living room and looked around me. The benchtop was full of dishes to be put away. The empty shopping bags from yesterday were still lying around. The placemats were still at the meals table, needing […]
I finally sent the book to the editor. And I had the rare opportunity to bask in the afterglow of finishing a project I have been working on for weeks now. This “completion elation” surprised me a little. I was not working […]
Writing is an awfully hard vocation to stay committed to. Most new writers feel exhausted after a productive spell and leave it for too long. That makes getting back to writing very hard. What we need is a simple, reliable, repeatable system […]
I used to be a “compulsive goal-setter.” You know the kind who set goals on the first of January. While other people stop right there, a “compulsive goal-setter” will continue all through the year. I would set quarterly goals, monthly goals, weekly […]