Don’t you hate it when it’s easy?

I find it SO annoying when stuff that I’ve been strenuously avoiding, struggling against, and forcefully resisting turns out to be really easy to do once I finally face it. Exercise that feels good after, housecleaning projects that take half as long as I expect– All that flailing and complaining for nothing. I spend so […]

New Year’s Resolutions That Work

[cs_section style=”margin: 0px; padding: 45px 0px; “][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][cs_text]What usually happens to your resolve in the New Year? Does it disappear before the pine needles are even vacuumed? Do you spend more energy on excuses than on execution? Can you even remember your […]

How to do it when it’s difficult

Persistence is not one of my strengths. When I go up against a brick wall the wall wins. I give up. Cut and run. Tell myself I never really wanted it anyway. However, that is not to say that powering through an immovable object is the only way to approach it. I am adept at […]

The hardest thing I’ve ever done.

I’m taking a course from Stella Orange called Craft Your Message. She’s helping me articulate what I do and how I came to do it. One of the exercises is to answer the question, “What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?” I was stumped. I have lived a fairly long time and nothing came to […]

Rebuilding Your Trust In Yourself

This past week I’ve read a number of articles on the topic of Impostor Syndrome, self-criticism, and negative thinking. The authors’ advice is sound– stop comparisons, speak to yourself as you would speak to a friend, don’t try to be perfect, reveal your vulnerability. Wise advice for everybody, but especially procrastinators. We procrastinators think we […]