This is a guest post by A. Victoria Mixon.
They say you can never go home again. But I beg to differ. You just have to get serious about procrastination.
Now, you know—and I know—that your deadline today is the one deadline you’re simply not going to meet. That’s why you’re over here reading up on procrastination, …
Feb 17, 2011 Advice, Motivation, Observations, productivity
Laura Vanderkam is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, which posits that we can make the most of the 168 hours we have in a week if we examine where our time goes and how to use it more wisely. She also runs the my168hours website.
In 168 Hours, you …
Jan 20, 2011 Advice, Motivation, Observations, productivity, Self improvement
This is a Q&A with Sage Cohen, the author of The Productive Writer and Writing the Life Poetic, both from Writer’s Digest Books, and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World. Her writing has appeared in publications including Writer’s Digest Magazine, Poet’s Market 2011, Cup of Comfort for Writers, The Oregonian, and How to …
Jan 6, 2011 Advice, Motivation, Organization, productivity, Writer Q&A
I tend to have Seasonal Affective Disorder — for a month or two in the winter, I’m exhausted, unmotivated, and down. I use a light box, take vitamin D, go for walks, do yoga, meditate — all the things you’re supposed to do — and still the winter depression comes. My life coach suggested that …
Nov 1, 2010 Advice, Ass, Motivation, Observations, Personal yammerings, productivity
Last week, I got an assignment from a magazine that’s a marketing vehicle for a consumer product (let’s say it’s a peach pitter) to write 1,200 words on a woman who really, really likes the product. First I thought, “$1,500 — yeah!” And then, I immediately thought, “How am I going to turn out 1,200 …
