How to Become A Writer
Posted on February 6, 2014 4 Comments
The process of becoming a writer follows a specific path.
First, deliberately choose another career. In youth, pragmatically decide that you cannot make a living with a writing career so instead acquire a tangible skill such as ditch-digging. In the meantime, enjoy journaling and letter-writing for fun. Declare, “I am not a writer.”
Next, logically decide to build on your existing job. When faced with sudden single-parenthood and the resultant serious income examination, take the safer route to family financial sustainability. Decide that producing a Masters thesis counts as writing, yet acknowledge a preference for creative expression. Identify, “I want to be a writer one day.”
After that, actively participate in writing classes. With time, learn the wisdom that a career doesn’t need to be either Writing or Not-Writing. While enjoying your job, explore writing assignments, creativity prompts, and blogging. Claim, “I am a writer.”
Finally, openly trust the universe at long last. Realize your idea of what it means to be a writer has evolved, and that you actually have been one all along. Embody, “I am writing.”
Emergence
We emerge upon discovering we already are that which it is we hope to become.
What do you hope to become? In what ways are you already there?
A classic
Power Words
Posted on January 29, 2014 Leave a Comment
This is an incredibly interesting book about identifying and harnessing the energy and power of the words you use. In Power Words: Igniting Your Life with Lightning Force, Sharon Anne Klingler shows how to use words consciously for a specific energetic purpose, a more complex use beyond mere definition.
The words themselves are individual and you are going to discover your own. What the author shows you is how to discover the words that will uplift and/or ignite you, and she gives examples of her own. Sharing the how and the why, she opens the door for your own further exploration.
All words have energy, and this energy can be harnessed for your deeper use and greater creation. Trigger words, power words, and lifting words all have their applicable nuances, and although I really resonate with “uplifting,” you may prefer another. The point is to choose, and use, your words with intent. This practice can shape and change your life–consciously.
If you are a word lover, you already desire this book. If you are not, you will still love this book’s approach.
A word to the wise? Embrace this book!
This book was given to me by Hay House in exchange for my honest opinion of it, as part of their volunteer Book Nook Blogger Program.
23 Mobile Things
Posted on January 16, 2014 Leave a Comment
23 Mobile Things is a self-directed online learning module of mobile apps that I’m exploring. At the same time, I’m using it to play with pages in WordPress instead of adding blog posts for each one of the 23 Things. See?!? I’m learning already!
Please visit my so-named page to learn more about this program and the apps. Feel free to explore along with me–comment about how a particular app rocks your world, either professionally or personally. (Isn’t it interesting how technology blurs those lines?)
Or, comment why you don’t use it because you use something even more awesome that people should know about!
I’m hoping to apply discernment. My collection of apps keeps growing, like an added appendage. Too many, and it’s time for an appendectomy. In the end, I’d like to use what’s appropriate and applicable. I think that’s pretty apparent. And as Phil Robertson has appointed, that would then make me ‘Appy ‘Appy ‘Appy.
Happy Hormones, Slim Belly
Posted on December 27, 2013 2 Comments
Ok, so who wouldn’t look twice at this title?!? Jorge Cruise‘s most recent book about healthful eating aims specifically at women over 40. This is my first experience with any of his many best-selling healthful-eating books, and I got sucked right in as his target audience. Over 40? Yep. Female? Yep! Interested in working with hormones instead of fighting and denying them? You betcha!
I learned from this book that scientific research on healthful eating plans uses male subjects because the female hormonal system fluctuates so much. This plan embraces what others have feared.
Simply put, we need to cut sugar to lose weight. (Oh, and carbohydrates really are sugars–read the book for a thoroughly understandable explanation.) But at the same time, we need more sugar than we used to, to maintain natural happy levels. (Serotonin naturally drops as we embrace this stage of life.) So, it turns out that we need to decrease what we need to add. Um…what?!?
Jorge Cruise addresses this in Happy Hormones, Slim Belly. He calls it a Women’s Carb Cycling program, in which two Slim Days are followed by five Happy Days of eating. Not only are there extremely do-able and user-friendly menus, shopping lists, and recipes for a four-week regimen to get you started, but there is also a supportive and expansive online component that we can sign up for. The claim is that I can lose up to 7 pounds the first week, and 2 pounds weekly thereafter–guaranteed! In addition, it is simply a healthful eating maintenance lifestyle.
Oh, and this works for the men and families in our lives as well.
I wasn’t looking for a diet plan, it’s just that addressing the female fortyish fare resonated with me. After reading this, I plan to follow it as a healthy experiment.
…But not until after the holidays, as my friend Sara Tonin and I already have some girl time planned! 😉
I received this as my choice of book title from Hay House in exchange for my honest opinion of it. No hormones were harmed in the making of this review.
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The Dalai Lama’s Cat and the Art of Purring
Posted on December 10, 2013 4 Comments
This is the second book by David Michie that enlightens readers through adventures of the Dalai Lama’s cat. It is helpful to get the background of HHC (His Holiness’ Cat) by reading the previous one first, but each is a stand-alone story in itself.
The Art of Purring is a handbook for happiness. “Not the kind of happy that comes and goes like a can of flaked tuna but an enduring happiness. The deep-down happiness that makes you purr from the heart.” (Michie) If this idea ripples through your soul with peace and promise, this book is for you–whether you are a cat lover or not!
Through the experiences of HHC in each chapter, we learn universal truths about happiness:
- Happiness is cultivated from within as opposed to being a result of externals.
- Success is a result of happiness, not the other way around.
- Happiness grows from being a part of a cause greater than our own selves.
- Happiness is not found in the past, nor is it found in the future.
- All we have is the now, and each day of that now is a miracle.
- We all have great capacity for happiness, and can actively expand this.
- When we help others, we ourselves actually benefit first.
- Mood is linked to food ingested.
- Equanimity and happiness are conjoined twins. (Equanimity: “mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, esp. in a difficult situation.” New Oxford American Dictionary; thank you Kindle!)
- We limit our view of mind, our potential is infinitely expandable.
The lessons in the chapters are gently delivered and easily received. As HHC learns, we resonate–that’s a beautiful gift.
I received this book from Hay House in exchange for review purposes.
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