Category: Blog posts
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Normal life…interrupted
You know I talked the other week about the universe slowing me down? Interestingly it’s mainly been on certain projects…until now! This week I’ve had a poorly pooch. My little dog is an old girl – she’s 16 now so any illness is potentially very bad news. Fortunately at this point, there’s no devastating news. But…
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Perfectionism is an enemy of done
Proof copy #2 arrived in the post this morning. It looks ok at first glance. The images (the problem that delayed matters for another 10 days) are ok. Not as good as they were with CreateSpace, but I suspect nobody but me (and now that I’ve pointed it out, you) would notice, so after a…
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Do you ever get the feeling the universe is trying to slow you down?
The other week I was getting the book ready for the 2nd proof and I hit a snag. Apparently there’s been a technical issue with Kindle Direct Publishing which made my lovely stick drawings look blurry and terrible. One of those weird things that’s never happened before, and stops a project in its tracks. I’m waiting…
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Smash the glass ceilings
In May we had Feeling Good month in the Fall in Love With Life group, so I got thinking about the limits and barriers we have to feeling good. The previous month I did my 3rd Joy Challenge with Amina Mahkdoom Lynch. Last year I hit a glass ceiling of joy – like there was only…
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When your expectations are high, you have to be ready for a fall
I was watching Celebrity SAS: Who dares wins where some celebs are taken through some SAS training to see how they do. When talking to one of the celebs (Olympic gold medalist Victoria Pendleton) they were asking about why she’s so hard on herself. She replied “Because I have such high expectations of myself”. The…
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Are you doing the homework?
As I was pondering what to write today (which looked a lot like procrastinating!), I got to thinking about what a good student I am. Not for school or course work – I procrastinate that forever and then force myself to do it at the last minute. But for personal development stuff. I started reading the…
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Tension won’t help get it done
Update on the editing project: I’m onto phase 3 – the edit of the paperback. Without going into too much detail, any changes to this document have the potential to cause mayhem in the formatting. To give you a sense of how I normally work on this phase picture tears, rage, bewilderment, blind fury and…
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How hard is it for you to do nothing?
Over the past few months, as you may know, I have been working on an edit of my first book to get it ready for a promotion I’m hoping to run sometime this century! In order to focus on the edit, I’ve been ignoring other things that need to be done. Because basically I just want…
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Are you willing to stick to a task ’til completion
I’ve been working on an editing project for my first book – I planned to do a promotion early this year and while checking for minor edits, I found a few old bad writing habits I wanted to correct. So a quick check of the book turned into 2 months (so far) of editing! I…
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Give something up or start something new?
Lent begins today. Is this something you observe? I have, for years. I am not particularly religious, but Lent was always a good cue to give something up. However, over the past few years, giving up things has fallen out of favour for me. I have come to realise that deprivation is not the best…