Monica Bhide, who teaches our Intro to Food Writing e-course, has a beautiful essay in the Christian Science Monitor about following her dreams to become a food writer. Great job, Monica! [lf]
Mar 19, 2009 Writing
In a guest post on the Zen Habits blog, Albert from UrbanMonk.net describes the 5% trick:
My favorite tool at this stage is the 5% statement, created by Nathaniel Branden, who is widely considered to be the father of the self-esteem movement. It works by allowing you to take steps in small increments. Trying to change …
Mar 19, 2009 Advice, Motivation, Observations, Self improvement
I just heard from Marina Krakovsky, one of my travel writing workshop alumna, on the success she had in placing an essay she worked on during the course. I love getting news like that! And working with Marina, who is such an accomplished writer, was a total joy.
Marina’s goal, when she signed up for the …
Mar 16, 2009 Advice, Magazines, News you can use, Personal yammerings, Writing
I’m reading Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. According to the copy on the jacket flap, “There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. In Outliers Malcolm Gladwell argues that the true story of success is very different, and that if …
Mar 16, 2009 Observations, Writers, Writing
For a couple of days at the beginning of last week, I felt completely unmotivated: more blob than human. One part of me wanted to market, work on my assignments, and generally be active and productive. But another, stronger, part of me wanted to lie on the couch and surf the Internet all week.
Then I …
Mar 12, 2009 Advice, Personal yammerings, productivity, Self improvement
