This past weekend, I ran my first race since April, 2013. It was 2 miles, and while I'm in the process of training for a 5K, I just started that training a couple of weeks ago. Halfway through the race - at about the one mile mark - I started to wonder why I had… Continue reading #MotivationMonday Baby Steps Get You There
Month: November 2017
#MotivationMonday Create Habits to Make Repetitive Tasks “Mindless” Tasks
When you have a lot of daily tasks, it can be daunting to check them off. Sometimes, too, we develop bad habits with regards to daily tasks. When you have a lot of repetitive tasks, it makes sense to track them as you would a habit, so that they become automatic to you. Define The… Continue reading #MotivationMonday Create Habits to Make Repetitive Tasks “Mindless” Tasks
#MotivationMonday The Fine Art of Writing a Crappy First Draft
I'm working on a novel, Dances With Crazy, for NaNoWriMo (You can follow my journey here), and I'm 10,009 words in. Those 10,009 words are very rough, they make up what Anne Lamott in Bird By Bird called a "shitty first draft." Giving yourself permission to write a less than stellar first draft is perhaps the most important… Continue reading #MotivationMonday The Fine Art of Writing a Crappy First Draft
Ronda Bowen 