I stopped doing the Goodreads Reading Challenge in 2024 because I was trying to answer a very important question: who am I? All my adult life I’ve struggled with a …
Reading, challenges, and the AuDHD pendulum
Life Goals
Please self-improve responsibly
Have you gratitude journalled today? What about the frog – you ate the frog, right? And how’s your productivity; it better be at least 150% what it was last week. …
Writing…just for the hell of it
The other day I was playing with my daughter. She had instructed me to help her lay some Paw Patrol playing cards in a path across the house. I have …
Relax, you don’t HAVE to change, actually
Places like Medium are a recovering perfectionist’s worst nightmare. Here I am trying to train myself out of absolutes and all-or-nothing thinking, only to be told by headline after headline …
Protect your drive to create at all costs
Trying to write a book? Well I hope you’re not committing any of the writing sins on this list as long as my leg. And I trust you’ve remembered the …
A simple game to show why you shouldn’t fear failure
The fearful parts of our brains are on overdrive. They constantly scan for danger, working harder than an insomniac CEO on a caffeine kick. There is, after all, plenty in …
Is this the real secret of self-improvement?
There is an entire industry that exists these days with one goal: to sell you the idea that you can be anything you want, and all you need is a …
How to beat the fear of submitting your work
I want to enter some writing competitions. Now would be a great time to doubt myself, right? There are two competitions I want to enter in April, and just thought …
Pause.
Sometimes you’ve just got to step back and recharge. It’s what allows you to keep going. Recently I’ve been firing on all cylinders; writing or rewriting 15,000 words on my …
5 thoughts that kept me going when confidence in my novel collapsed
The world suddenly seemed so vast, and I felt so small. The situation was laughable; how could I possibly have believed I was ready for this? This year I’ve challenged …