Time – how to spend it profitably and productively?
On August 20 I took a smart time out yet it was still work. Super energizing and FUN.
Day 23 Story Market visits BNI Grand Fortune City
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Day 22 On 3 Steps to a Smarter You
Did you catch the whiff of new school supplies? Still summer days to go but evidence of return to formal schooling is everywhere. Society’s structure for the kids. Us workaday folks need to get our brain boosts also, to keep up with the high tech, high demand lives we lead.
Here an easy piece I found to read and act on from the Blinkist. It’s posted here for your convenience but entirely in their writers’ words:
These 3 Tricks Can Actually Help You Get Smarter
Day 18 Reimagining the To Do List as Dance Card
“I’m dancing as fast as I can,” is a well-worn phrase. It’s easily claimed by people overloaded at work and scampering madly to keep up with all the tasks heaped onto the ‘dance’ card of their desks.
It’s a bold statement, too. It reflects a person’s emotional state too, as they high step it through life’s daily emotional dances.
The phrase was most powerfully claimed by Barbara Gordon in the book she penned and the subsequent movie made from it: I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can where she is portrayed by Jill Clayburgh. The perfect life is soon revealed as frayed and flawed.
There are times where I’m called to some fancy footwork in my day, or my life. Happy to report that today was fulfilling without frenzy. Spent most of it out in public but in ‘engagement lite’ mode.
Day 14 The devil made me do it: my day, diet & marketing
I’ve wished a lot of worthy men Happy Father’s Day today.
I did so with sincerity for their valued contribution to someone’s life in their world whether they are actual biological dads, or married, or straight or not.
Men who care, share life lessons, mentor, nurture, guide, love and serve as role models, just like any woman on Mother’s Day who does the same, should be acknowledged and wished well.
Going the distance – with your map Day 10
I have not been writing nightly, as planned or hoped for.
The 1st week went very well. Then, life rolled in more insistently. We get busy.We get preoccupied.
The ideas, however, kept flowing. No shortage of those.
Day 6 of the Fab 45 & “We are not alone”
The small packet of purpose that is my newly declared daily writing project is layering on its benefits. Like a little pearl coat covering the irritant of responsibility there’s a kind of luster now around the hours I commit to writing at day’s end.
The need to rest my brain from the day just passed and for the 2 ahead dictates that I simply share with you a new writing experience I had today:
Road ahead: Fab 45-Day 5 finds the Intersections
Writing to you with something useful and interesting and perhaps even entertaining is on my mind a lot these days.
What have the past hundreds upon hundreds of blogs I’ve birthed into the world had in common? No matter the topic or the source of the publishing impetus, they were written with a specific teaching or marketing purpose in mind. I sketched an outline, usually with a clear objective. Sometimes I just went at it. I knew the pattern I taught my college level business writing students would kick in to bring my ideas to completion and then to publication:
- Planning 20% of time
- Writing 30% of time
- Refining/ Revising 45% of time
- Evaluating 5% of the time
Social media posts had that edge of spontaneity. They’re more often in the moment and often stimulated by the instant influence of others’ posts, or the news on the radio as I worked.
Today, Day 5 of the Fab 45 fuses the planned and the just popped up! I’ve decided to respond to something remarkable in my day as the jumping off point. I can’t help but write in some more valued by also sharing some archived wisdom and maybe some point form tips. Today: Intersections
Can we write ourselves healthy? Social? Successful? Fab 45-Day 4
Do you, as a writer or other creative get your inspiration from the outside world? Swaths of colour in your path. Sound vibrations familiar and foreign. Aromas. Snippets of conversation overheard repurposed first in your mind and then your studio?
Me too.
Unravel first, then (re)knit our writer’s knowledge to serve
After 34 years of writing professionally in many platforms, you’d think I’d know to expect and to manage the process and consequences of being (a) creative.
This week, I’m delightfully heartened by the sublime interview scenes and quotes in Art & Copy. This powerful film about advertising and inspiration, and directed by Doug Pray was released in 2009.
Fab 45’s Challenge day 2 recycles ideas, trims word waste
It’s clear from the 1st post in this Fab 45 daily blog writing challenge, that I’ve got a lot to share. But then, so do you. It’s the nature of the human condition to want to express ourselves. I do hope you’ll share your comments, too. Go ahead, do that in the space below. As … Read more