…to be cramming in Things We Planned To Do Before The Term Starts. Some of these things are my personal deadlines, the projects that I set out at the beginning of the summer. In which case I plan to keep my writing practice as equally urgent-important. Why should my lollygagging mean I reshuffle my priorities? […]
You realize that the chief reason I’ve not “had a blog” is the predictability, the routine of it all. To encourage someone from afar to make a date with you means you should honor them by showing up. And I haven’t felt like showing up. (Clearly.)Interestingly enough, I -have- been burnishing a new habit lately. […]
So a fair slug of what this blog is for is to figure out how the life I currently live is aligned – or can be aligned – with the best practices for the things I think are important.And since for both writing and prayer DAILY is purportedly critical, I use this space to explore […]
Fix Bad Habits: Insights from a 7-Year Obsession1. Set a conditioning period.2. Make the habit every day.3. Strategically replace your biggest lost needs.4. Begin with the start in mind. hm.
Susan Piver (a Buddhist meditation teacher) used the above title for her email today — it began: Q: Susan, I have trouble committing myself to the cushion… please address this. A: We all have difficulty with this. I totally understand. When you sit on the cushion, you’re agreeing to sit down with the unknown. Sometimes […]
Hey, so LAST year – one month & change ago – I started this blog as a daily writing project. I made entries 15 out of 24 days… a reasonable amount, as far as habit-encouragement goes. But no — in August, all writing ceases until February. Coinciding neatly with daughter A’s train wreck of an […]
In a recent Elle, there’s a review/opinion piece by Miranda Purves titled, “The Awful Truth.” And it’s a nice enough article, but I want to keep this quote from her quoting Rachel Cusk’s memoir A Life’s Work: “The crying has stopped,” Cusk writes of her daughter’s colic. “She has survived the first pain of existence […]
While wandering the w.w.w to look for the Pomodoro Technique (ah, the web — so suited for digression, so inappropriate for my tired state of mind) I ran into this: “So, what is motivation? Let’s take one step at a time. Motivation is made up of two factors: personal structure – meaning values and principles […]
I was writing this post in my head during my acupuncture treatment. There are very large downsides to that, not the least of which is that, after a hot afternoon running errands, I’m having trouble connecting back to “there.” But with some cleansing breaths, some shoulder rolls, and a glass of ice water, maybe I […]
I got up & swam this morning for the first time in two weeks. I came home clear-eyed and focused, ready to crank. Had five different topics for blog-posts ready to go… …but there were a few things I thought I should do first. Some, like showering, dressing & eating, I’m good with putting to […]
