Two weeks ago, I saw a link in a tweet from Katy Bowman (@alignedandwell) about standing desks and I decided to try it out for the afternoon. It felt so good that I’ve been standing to work ever since. I’m a writer, and I do the books for my husband’s company, so I generally spend…
Well, I don’t know if it would have paid, I didn’t make one. I had every intention of creating a nice outline for myself today, as well as checking a few other things off my to do list. I managed to check a number of things off my list, but I didn’t get the outline…
So far, I have 14, 730 words and I am planning to bring myself up to 15, 000 words tonight. That’s more words than I had going into the final weekend last year. With cooperation from The Man, The Boy and The Little Guy, I managed to finish with 50, 000 by the 28th. I…
My ‘ learn to do projects in chunks’ plan is coming along swimmingly. I have written at least 2000 words* every day since November started, even on that day that felt like I was constructing each one individually. I really like the feeling of writing this much, and I like having a daily goal. Sure,…
Let me start by saying that I HATE most forms of competition. I know that they’re good for you in many ways, and there are many benefits, and that it can be the only way to test certain skills. Yea gawds, though, they’re unpleasant. I think it is a personality issue, something to do with…
I was expecting today to be gruesome. I’ve read The Four Day Win*, I know that it’s a turning point and I had decided to just accept the hard as part of the process. Then it wasn’t hard. That leaves me wondering if it would never have been hard, or if it was the acceptance…
I’m really struggling with voice here. When I read some of my old blog entries, I love the way the me of then shines through and I like the things I had to say. For a while there I was juggling so many things and so many competing needs, that I ended up dropping the…
It’s November 2nd, and day two of NaNoWriMo and I am already dealing with some major resistance, Not resistance to writing, I’m enjoying that, Resistance to the commitment of writing, and of doing yoga – which I have done a grand total of two mornings in a row (at 6:45). It’s not that I don’t…
It’s my birthday month! I’m making decent progress with my arm muscles and I expect I’ll have some more muscle visibility by the end of next week (yay, me!). But that’s not why I am so happy to see November. I’m thrilled because this is the month I am teaching myself to consistently work toward…
You heard it here first. I will have actual, defined arm muscles by November 10th. No, I am not going to be in perfect shape by then (seriously, what is perfect shape? I have no idea). And no, I won’t have my ultimate plan muscles my then, but my arms will be noticeably stronger, and…