Writing Life

Every day that we wake up to a new day is an invitation to keep going. If you are, like me, writing a novel, putting in time at the page—no matter how many or little words you get down—is progress. When you show up at the studio to keep working on that series of paintings, that’s progress. Working on the content for your next course offering, that’s progress too. [Read more…] about Keep Going

It is easy to want to go from A to Z, from idea to conception, from unknown to superstar. But becoming an ‘overnight success,’ as we know, takes time—sometimes years, and in some cases decades, of work. Showing up day after day, and when you are constantly asking yourself, “What’s the point?” to do what the work requires. And I have learned that bringing any project to life takes you down a winding path. It is never straight or easy, never exactly what you expect. [Read more…] about The Winding Path

I had set out back in April on a change journey because I wasn’t ‘happy’ with where I was in life. My writing—on my blog and social media posts—reflected that. That unhappiness bubbled over as I lapped up as much self-help literature as I could read, because I thought—erroneously—that there was something wrong with me. Everything I read made me believe, again incorrectly, that I wasn’t hustling enough, wasn’t committed enough, wasn’t worthy enough. Until I realized it was time to break the cycle. [Read more…] about Break the Cycle

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve done something that has always been hard for me to do. I’ve slowed down. And to do that meant I had to make a meaningful attempt to cut out the noise. I’ve unsubscribed from ninety percent of the e-mail newsletters I’d signed up for, many of which went unread. I put away the self-help books I was reading or often referred to. Because I was blindly trying to improve myself without really understanding why. And instead of pushing forward willy-nilly, I had to take time to figure it out. [Read more…] about Figure It Out

I have spent years reading books from the self-help/self-improvement industry in the hopes of creating meaningful change in my life. From Dale Carnegie and Jim Rohn to Stephen Covey and Jack Canfield to Tony Robbins and Ryan Holiday, I had been searching for hacks, strategies, or tricks to improve my life. And when you accept someone else’s—and really a whole generation’s—definition of success, you’re tempted to believe (as I did until recently) that you are broken. Because you haven’t kept up with the Joneses. But maybe it’s time to break the rules. [Read more…] about Break the ‘Rules’