This week has been consumed by wandering, Halloween-ing and strict contemplation of the future. If you’ve been preoccupied by any of those things, here is what you’ve missed: Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths The Things We Put Off Broke Girls Travel Halloween Countdown Finding Tranquility in an Unexpected Place Channel Islands Harbor Examiner.com
Experiment time! Over the next week (or even two) make note of it any time you say to yourself, “I’ll do that later.” It doesn’t have to be a big, time-consuming notation because then taking the note will be something you put off, but just some sort of indication of when and what you decide
Happy Sunday! This is what you’ve missed this week on Dating in LA: Private Versus Public Lives for Bloggers Where do we draw the line between our public and private selves? Three Good Things Time to improve my perspective by looking for three good things each day. Four Things that Spell Trouble for Creativity What
I don’t know about you, but my motivation (and resulting creativity) flows in waves. My boyfriend seems endlessly creative. He sees a story everywhere, and he’s very focused. I cannot tell you how much I wish that was the case for me. No, for me every given day is different, and, at times, I find
I find myself with a couple of days on my own. When I realized this an odd little bout of motivation was sparked. Before I knew it, I had a list of (conservatively) 50 items that I would take care of while I had this time. They ranged from the mundane to the impossible (or
Accurate. I blame HGTV and its seductive, seductive ways.
I’m looking at my “No Really You Have To Do These Things” list. It’s not a ton of stuff, but there are 14 things that absolutely must be done before the weekend. Naturally, I should prioritize them by which ones are most urgent (and longest ignored). Instead, my thought process goes something like this: “Which
I’m going though another of those periods that I like to refer to as the “white phase.” No, I’m not only eating white foods or wearing white clothing (please, that would last two seconds before I had food or debris stains everywhere). This is more of an “I-really-need-to-get-rid-of-all-my-old-stuff-and-start-over” kind of thought process. I’ve done this
There is nothing so consuming as an unrealistic desire. I’m not even sure it matters what it is: unattainable career goals, inappropriate men, getting into a size 2 again…. All of these things have the power to take the concentration off of realistic and necessary activities and put it firmly in dreamland. I have made