I pushed “publish” on my book “Contours of Courageous Parenting - Tilting Towards Better Decisions” one year ago. And today I get to do a happy dance 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 in celebration. The journey from concept to writing to publishing has been as interesting as the travel stories from our Round-the-World trip I...
If Writing in Community is training as a sous chef, Then Build a Second Brain is figuring out my mise en place, And Write of Passage is teaching me flavour profiles and plating. How three writing courses helped me improve as a writer. “What are we grateful for this year?” We are all gathered around...
Space & Parenting This is a transcript of a H.I.T presentation done on July 17, 2021. HIT talks showcase Hope, Inspiration and Transformation. Each event hosts eight speakers from across the globe and across all time zones who each speak for eight minutes. https://youtu.be/SGmrUXf5WHY Today I would like to talk to you about...
Feeling grateful and blessed! I am on a 365-day writing streak. I've been chasing the habit of regular writing for the past five years. And now that I have made it this far, I would like to share some of the reasons it may have worked to date. Is there a...
I am celebrating this year of writing by sharing six different and wonderful reviews of the book that came together once I got into a habit of daily writing. "Emotions create habits" -- BJ Fogg Tiny Habits 3-6-5-series: This post is part of a series: Celebrating 365 days of continuous writing Simple Discipline Takes...
"365? That's impossible!" It crept up on me suddenly. As I added one to my daily writing counter of the day, I realized that I have been writing for 365 days. A full year of consecutive days of writing. What started out as an exercise in discipline and continuity has delivered...
Today marks 365 days of showing up daily and making my mark. I will not lie. It was not easy, especially on lazy, warm summer nights, or Zoom-ed-out days. One day, all I could manage was a simple "I woz 'ere. Exhausted. Tank is empty." But somehow over the space of...
As I re-read theWARofART, I found I would rather become the accidental author of a book than figure out how to roast a chicken. The Steven Pressfield classic is the handbook on overcoming your -isms and just getting started. This is my third orbit around this sun. Orbit One - Seth...
The short read Great news: Our new dishwasher was finally delivered after an eight-week wait! Better news: The plumber was able to make time the same day and installed it!! Yay!!! ? Nay. We still have a leak. Reminder — Don’t solve the symptom. Solve the root problem. Had that happened, we may not have been up to our elbows in...