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Cathy: An update on the progress or not of my nano novel

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , , , , , on November 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »

crossposted from my personal blog
Life happens,
doctors happen,
and this past week, a lot of doctor appointments happened and other sundry bits of attending to sick self, sick kids, etc. So in the interest of pediatrics, Nanowrimo fell somewhat behind and has been having trouble catching back up. also, I really got walloped by news of Brother [...]

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Kelly: A Girl’s Gotta Dream…

Posted in Kelly, tagged , , on September 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Cross-posted from my personal blog…

Catching my breath quite a bit here lately so I haven’t had much happening on the art front. Here’s another spread from my art journal I’ve been working on. I’ve actually even started writing in it now!!! I was in Tampa Friday and Saturday facilitating some leadership programs and came home [...]

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Why setting goals can backfire

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , on March 16, 2009 | 12 Comments »

From Sunday’s Boston Globe, “Ready, aim…fire” by Drake Bennett, an examination of the downsides of goal-setting. Within a historical framework, the author points out that while goals often work, sometimes “success” involves a few unpleasant side-effects.
While Bennett focuses primarily on the corporate landscape, we can transfer his points to a creatively relevant scenario. For example, [...]

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Cathy: Stopping the analysis

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , , , on February 24, 2009 | 9 Comments »

The February Finish-a-thon has been a great tool for all of us to realize where we fit in setting ourselves deadlines, what project we’re working on, how far we have to go, and whether can we finish it in a certain time frame.
For me, it turned my otherwise small penchant for analysis of why I’m [...]

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Kelly: Finding Time for Balance

Posted in Kelly, tagged , , on January 8, 2009 | 9 Comments »

So I’ve been thinking more about this whole New Year’s Resolution thing, and I’ve come down to one thing: balance. That’s my word for the year. I must find balance. I must find a way to balance time with my family, with time to expand my creative endeavors, with time to work, with time to [...]

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Cathy: Double Whammy

Posted in Cathy, tagged , on January 8, 2009 | 16 Comments »

Everyone is thinking resolutions, new beginnings, new projects, etc at this time of year. On news programs and morning shows, they obsess about it for weeks leading to and long after the big ball drop in Times Square. Everywhere you turn, a neighbor, the grocery clerk, your mechanic, discusses options and fall offs for this [...]

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Kristine: A Question of Identity

Posted in Kristine, tagged on January 6, 2009 | 20 Comments »

A few months ago, I found an old high school friend online, someone I haven’t seen or talked to since the summer after we graduated. To be honest, I never thought I’d connect with this person again, but the power of the Internet proved me wrong. It was a weird encounter and one that sort [...]

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New Year’s resolutions?

Posted in Miranda, tagged , on December 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »

New Year’s Eve is a wonderful excuse for taking stock in where you’re at. What were the highlights of the past year? The challenges? Have you redefined yourself in small ways — or big ones? Where do you want to go in 2009? Are there a few things on your “someday” list that you could [...]

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Miranda: “Someday” is today

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , on November 6, 2008 | 14 Comments »

I can’t remember where I picked it up, but at some point last week I heard the old reminder “‘Someday’ is today.” Those three words have been repeating in my head ever since.
When you aspire to living in the moment, it’s easy to forget about all those things you want to do “someday.” The only [...]

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Miranda: A question

Posted in Miranda, tagged on October 20, 2008 | 16 Comments »

If you were to drop dead right now, this very minute, and you had a moment of last consciousness to weigh your life in the balance, what would the verdict be? Would you feel that you had lived your life to the fullest; that you had accomplished something important, whatever that means to you?
I admit [...]

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Miranda: Getting my #%^&* together

Posted in Miranda, tagged , on October 16, 2008 | 17 Comments »

It’s been a long time since I last posted a personal entry. Regular readers of this blog will know that I spent the last two months under an intense pile of client projects and had little bandwidth to do anything else. I have finally — and gratefully — emerged from under the mountain. I should [...]

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Charlotte: Introducing myself

Posted in Charlotte, tagged , on September 30, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Having said a while ago that it seemed to be the polite thing to do to introduce myself properly, by the time I figure out how to do a blog post AND think of something pithy and beautifully composed to do the job, I will probably have spent months clogging up the Monday page with [...]

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