Do Think More About the Future or the Past?

You can tell someone’s age by how much they think about the future or the past. When we’re kids, time is slow, like moving through water. It’s a huge milestone to be six years old, then six and a half, and then seven. A two-month summer vacation lasts a lifetime. When you’re nine, a twenty-year-oldContinue reading “Do Think More About the Future or the Past?”

Product Bias: What You Buy May Not Be For You

Here’s something to think about the next time you make a purchase. For me, it started as an innocent observation. I was looking into buying a planner when I noticed that the full, page-sized planners were commonly in pink shades or floral patterns. What statement are the makers of these planners trying to make? IContinue reading “Product Bias: What You Buy May Not Be For You”

Read Bad Books with Bad Writing

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”  – Stephen King, a.k.a. “The King of Horror” Today we have a few words of wisdom to share with you, someone who reads and writes. Yes, you are “someone whoContinue reading “Read Bad Books with Bad Writing”

Are You Feeling Lost?

Have you ever walked into a room and realized you don’t know why you’re there? Then you walked back out to retrace your steps and recover your memory from ten seconds ago. It happens sometimes. It can happen anywhere. You can be at the store and not remember what brought you to that aisle. YouContinue reading “Are You Feeling Lost?”

Motivation Through Words

(Repost) Words are food. Words are fuel. Words are dreams come to life. Words keep us going. They motivate us. When you’re feeling down, or you’ve hit writer’s block, follow the advice of your favorite writer. When you’re concerned you can’t make a deadline for a writing project, break your main goal into small, littleContinue reading “Motivation Through Words”