Writing. Productivity. Passion. Purpose.
For the uninitiated, I love making a list of the things I’d like to accomplish. I post these lists, not necessarily to be perfect, but to give myself some guidelines to go off of. I take inspiration from Gretchen Rubin’s “Design Your Year,” which I enjoy pouring over at the beginning of each year.
So, here it is: some things I want to do in 2026:
Continue reading “26 for 2026: Resolutions…ish”
It’s April of 2024, and I’ve been working 10-20 hours every weekend for the better part of the last 13 month. This is on top of my day job.
After all, I’m trying to out run my emotions by drowning them out in being exhausted from working. I’m trying, desperately, to claw my way out of the hole I’ve been left in. And I’m exhausted.
I get a text Saturday night. I happen to have a rare Sunday off.
Continue reading “One Fun Thing: A Strategy For Living”
Let me start off by saying that I miss writing for this blog. I love having something that is mine, my own platform, my own community, my own place on the internet for me. In looking back at my blog, I noticed I wrote a lot more in 2017 and 2018, and tapered off in 2019 and 2020. My years have been jam packed, sure, but regardless, my intent for 2021 is to make time for the things that matter to me.
Continue reading “21 for 21-My Goals and Resolutions”
The last two weeks have been a challenge. My days have been busy, and I’ve just barely been able to do the deadline based things that I need to accomplish. So here is what I’m working on to try to manage my goals.
I have been in a creative slump. No, that’s inaccurate. I have been overwhelmed to the point of tears and can’t mange to do anything other than work and mindlessly scroll social media, so needless to say, a creative slump was inevitable.
Dear Reader, I should add to my New Years Resolutions a plan to keep up with my GoodReads account. Because this year, I read quite a few books, and I should probably organize them…somehow. I read 34 books this year, which is WAY UP from the 7 I read in 2015, and that’s something to be proud of. I don’t have dates for when I read these books, but I started reading this year around April, and read pretty consistently after that. So let’s get into it:
Dear Reader, I’ve blogged quite a bit this year. More consistently than I used to, not as consistently as I wanted to. But I read a lot more than I have any other year that I have been blogging, so I wanted to talk about the best book I read this year.
I don’t know if I have ever done a proper book haul on this blog. I know I’ve done library hauls before, but I think this is slightly different. However, I have found myself purchasing some books, and because of that, I wanted to share them with you.
In June, I talked about wanting to take on a Happiness Project, as modeled off of the book of the same name by Gretchen Rubin. So whatever happened to that?
Continue reading “Whatever Happened to My Happiness Project”
I only started reading books again in April, and so far this year, I’ve read 27. Since we’ve got about 4 months left of the year, I figured now was a good time to break down what I’ve been reading, why, and what’s next.