The #1 Thing You MUST Do if You Want to Write

I am a passionate writer.  I have been since the age of 8, writing stories on my dad's typewriter and selling them for 50 cents.  As I grew older I wrote for school, and I wrote for fun.  I wrote to record things, I wrote to vent things, and I wrote to communicate.  I kept a journal, and I wrote volumes of poetry. But for a long time after my first daughter was born in 2007, I didn't write anything except what was necessary for survival.  I don't know why, but I just stopped. When I opened up Making the Most to the world…

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Goal Setting: Week of March 6, 2016

This week I felt as though I accomplished very little. It seems like everything came up this week (despite the fact that the kids were in school all week). Really, I just don't know what happened, and time got away from me. The good news is that today is the first Saturday in quite a while that we've not had basketball games to attend or other things going on, so I accomplished quite a lot today! Here's how this week looked: Spiritual: Devotions (5/7) Daniel Plan Devotions (7/7) Designated prayer time (1/7) - Plans to do this today Mental: Journal…

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Reading List Review: January & February 2016

I'm really excited this month as I go over what I read during the months of January and February.  As much as I hated all the snow we got, it sure did provide me with plenty of time to read.  In fact, I read twice as many books as I had planned, so I'd say this year is starting out pretty well for my reading goals.  Can't wait to see what I finish in March! Here's what I read during the months of January & February: Animal Farm by George Orwell The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Where is God When…

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Goal Setting: Week of February 28, 2016

Man, I can't even express how grateful I was to have the kids at school this week!  I got so much done!  Here's how things went this week: Spiritual: Devotions (5/7) Daniel Plan Devotions (7/7) Designated prayer time (1/7) Mental: Journal (1/7) Finish 2 cross stitch colors Physical: No soda 6 c. of water daily (3/7) Exercise (3/7) Relationships: Devotions with Prince Charming (1/7) Devotions with Babies (1/7) Date with Prince Charming Spend time with Princess Anna Spend time with Rapunzel Send 1 personal note Plan next month's hospitality date Career: Blog 3 days (MTM) Business Day on Wednesday Should Do: Cut…

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The Advice I Gave (But Never Took)

I know it's been a while since I really wrote anything of substance.  I'm sure you're tired of following my goal progress every week and are wondering what's going on.  I have to just be completely honest with myself and with you.  I am frequently finding myself paralyzed by fear.  The funny thing is that I just wrote a book on fear and how to overcome fear, and here I sit having wasted so much time fighting some of the things I've been needing to do the most. The truth is that we all dole out advice to others and…

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