In Buddhism the Noble Eightfold Path contains steps to releasing attachment and suffering and achieving if not Nirvana, then a Buddha-mind filled with enlightenment. I admit that not everyone follows this path, but I believe there is wisdom to be found in many of the...
There’s a lot going on in the world right now. There’s the nonstop political shenanigans that give shenanigans a bad name, because those are supposed to be fun, right? There’s exploding diarrhea because who doesn’t want that in the heat of...
In my last blog I talked about how the mind-body divide, or in today’s terms, the focus on work-life balance seems to have broken career balance. And as soon as I hit publish on that blog, I could hear the questions coming. If I’m not supposed to focus on...
The common way we think about work-life or life-career balance is that there is a time for “life” and a time for your career. And like that odd mixture of cranberry sauce and gravy at an (American) Thanksgiving plate, the two really shouldn’t meet....
I follow a lot of self-proclaimed author gurus and I’m noticing that a lot of them are pivoting away from faster writing and shorter times between releases and more toward trying to sell authors on creating a sustainable career and finding the elusive author...
While I don’t advise everyone to track their daily word count, for me it has been enlightening. With the exception of the times when I take a deliberate break from writing, such as what I’m doing the rest of this month to catch up on to do list things, it...
