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Read more about the article Stop Self-Sabotage: Dreaming Big in Small Ways

Stop Self-Sabotage: Dreaming Big in Small Ways

(This post about dreaming big is part of my weekly Monday Morning Blast-Off email series. To get emails like this in your inbox every Monday morning, head here.) Happy Monday! Every week, I send out the Monday Morning Blast Off email to a really cool group of folks who want to boost their creative productivity. Last week I asked people to tell me what some of their shoot-for-the-moon dreams were, and I got some really lovely responses — everything from having a quiet writing retreat to being a radical agent of change in the last years before retirement. My point was that…

Read more about the article A Creative’s Guide to Staying on Track with Resolutions

A Creative’s Guide to Staying on Track with Resolutions

This is about the time of year when shiny New Year’s resolutions start to look a little tarnished. Those thousand fiction words a day I was writing at the beginning of January? Yeah, not so much now. All that sugar I’m not supposed to be eating? Well, I may have made brownies a few days ago. And I may keep sneaking bites of my husband’s desserts. I wrote last week about one important tool you can use to keep on track with resolutions and goals: accountability groups. But I think one of the biggest things you can do on your…

Read more about the article Three Brains Are Better than One: How Accountability Groups Keep Me On Track

Three Brains Are Better than One: How Accountability Groups Keep Me On Track

On Thursday, I fired up my computer at 8 AM to get on Skype. I’m normally working that early already – or at least putting the kettle on and checking email – but I try to avoid conversating with the outside world until later in the day. Thursday, I didn’t have a choice. It was already 11am Stephanie's time and 6 PM Ayelet's time in Israel. Plus, we had a special occasion to celebrate: our two-year "Grupoversary". Although we've never met in person, Stephanie and Ayelet have become an important part of my life over the last two years – they’re my freelance…