I have a small life right now, but it's one that I love. Since moving to the UK last May, Thomas and I haven't gone out of our way to make friends. The only person we talk to and see on a regular basis is his grandmother, Sue. Without her, we'd almost certainly be complete recluses; staying in …
I used to hate journaling – before I discovered it’s actually incredibly useful.
Over the past few months, I've been in full-on "start up mode" as I like to call it - basically just being a workaholic and doing nothing of note besides. It's why I haven't really posted a lot of anything on here, but while there's plenty I'll likely discuss in the future, for now I'd like to …
Friendships
I've decided I'm going to change my perspective on friendships. My old perspective (superficially): if it isn't deep, intimate, and returned in kind, it's lacking. My new one; Give what's being given. Don't press for more if more doesn't seem welcomed. Return what you get in kind. …
One Big Goal at a Time
I know how it feels to want change, and to want it to have happened yesterday. But we all know that's not how change works. Wanting alone never equates to the change we want taking place. Change takes time, sometimes a lot more of it than we ever could've expected. Yet when we look at our big …
Work, Winter Weather, & Wandering Words
It's been a while since I've posted an update on this blog, largely because since my last post, I've loosely stuck to my productive morning ritual. I say loosely because I have actually strayed from the whole spending-the-entire-time-writing goal. Just for a while. Because I needed plenty of …
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My New Hyper-Productive Morning Ritual
So it may be a little too early to call it, but I've set up a hyper-productive morning routine for myself that's been getting me to finally do the one thing I've intended to do more of for the past year or two and haven't done exceptionally well: publish more frequently. Basically, the book …
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