Get Serious About Writing
Big Salad Wednesday: Process Goals
All goals are not the same. Big Salad Wednesday My husband and I have been trying to eat better, especially to eat more whole foods and fresh vegetables. That’s a rather vague goal that is hard to measure. To help to reach that goal, we have instituted what we call Big Salad Wednesdays. Each Wednesday …
On Falling Behind, Failing, and Progress
Writer Annie Murphy Paul writes in “How We Make Progress” that rather than a staircase model of learning, in which we steadily climb step after step to the top, a more apt metaphor may be waves on a beach, “where one wave overtakes another and then pulls back, overtaken in turn by another advancing and …
Set Authentic Writing Goals
As we continue to focus on dreams and goals, let’s think about exactly what it is we want to write. What genre do you want to write? What subject matters do you want to write about? What lengths do you want to write? When and how often do you want to write? Where do you …
When Goals Backfire
If the practice of setting goals does not help you to reach them, the problem may not be you. In our culture of efficiency and productivity, the idea of goal-setting is nearly sacrosanct. In order to succeed, we must set goals. Right? Maybe not. In “Forget Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead,” writer and entrepreneur James Clear …