Tag: perspective
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Stop and Have Some Fun: Avoiding Burnout and Unnecessary Stress
So I have a not-so-secret secret for you: too much nose to the grindstone with zero fun makes you crazy. Yes, I know, not exactly genius. But you’d think it was. I’ve been pushing really hard to get a book ready in time for conference. Like crazy-time pushing, meaning I didn’t even take the weekend…
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Crap, Crap, Everywhere: How to Find Perspective When You Think the Pages Stink
Yep, I’m still in revisions. And this post is late today (sorry about that!). I’m at the point where it feels like revisions will never, ever end and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. It was turned off last Tuesday. Or maybe back in December … Anyhoo, I’ve been going through…
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Are You A Control Freak? How to move past the Illusion of Control
I am a control freak. It’s why I don’t like getting drunk, I follow the rules, and I expect others to as well. It’s why I love order and discipline in the world, even while I’d rather sometimes that it was my rules everyone followed. And it is why I have my very own “bwahahahaha”…
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Is Resistance to Change Standing in Your Way?
I’ve been thinking about the idea that we are all responsible for our own experience and creation of reality again. (For a previous blog outlining the principles, please see: It’s All in the Perspective.) It led me to start considering how, for the most part, we all fear change to lesser or greater degrees. And…
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It’s All in the Perspective: Considering Your Personal POV and Journaling
I’ll start by saying that I’m not discussing matters of POV shift and usage IN your writing, but rather, the effect your personal POV has ON your writing. And a great way to monitor and track your own POV is through journal entries where you can view them with some objectivity and distance. Yes, I…