May is Mental Health Awareness Month
May 14, 2022
Tag: Balanced Life
Special Edition: You have the right to say nothing
May 4, 2022
Social media trends I love: Seeing all the good and positive things in the world ~ kindness, helping, sharing, cheering strangers on who’ve achieved their goals. Social media trends that I hate: Seeing trolls, bottom dwelling stalkers and random strangers who are just scrolling for a rumble with total strangers for no reason other than, … More Special Edition: You have the right to say nothing
Days of Change: You Get To Be You, Mindfully.
April 28, 2022
There are a lot of people who teach or practice a positive psychology but have never suffered, or felt a crisis, or experienced hardship. I don’t want you to suffer hardship, but then … I sort of do. There are also a lot of young, wealthy (or financially secure) people who have financial backing who … More Days of Change: You Get To Be You, Mindfully.
Days of change: Wired $2400 to Spend
April 26, 2022
You have $2400 to spend today. What will you buy? We are tethered to the internet. We don’t know it until we live without it for a week. It’s connected to our brain through a conditioned response. We are Pavlov’s dogs and Skinner’s pigeons. Tap the screen, get fed a reward of connection. Put the … More Days of change: Wired $2400 to Spend
Days of Change: Monday Edition Simplify
April 25, 2022
If you really want to change your life ~ you have to do something to break your routine. You also have to adjust how you spend your time. I’ve been using social media for two reasons: I wanted to learn HOW people use social media. I tried freelance writing for 3 months. For whatever reason, … More Days of Change: Monday Edition Simplify
Days of Change ~ Live like a Spy
April 20, 2022
Do you know what your digital footprint is? What the new Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp policy is regarding your privacy? Do you have full control over what you do or say or look for online? Have you ever had cyber bullies? THEY are fun! What about cyber stalkers? SUPER fun! Ex’s who once said or tried to low … More Days of Change ~ Live like a Spy
331 Days of Change: The Power of the Mind
April 14, 2022
If you believe it to be true, it is true ~ folklore … but also neuroscience … and also spiritual/religious belief systems ~ while also witchcraft and mindfulness and … it’s a long list. It’s all advertising. 🙂 The sort we sell ourselves. This seems to be a universal belief system. Some people call them … More 331 Days of Change: The Power of the Mind
336 Days of Change: Creative brains and Flow
April 9, 2022
Every time we stop our creativity to count off how many days to do this, or how many months to do that ~ we interrupt the flow. Whenever we tell someone not to think about or worry about money, we are unconsciously telling them two major things. Think about money The speaker has never had … More 336 Days of Change: Creative brains and Flow
339 Days of Change: Life Path
April 6, 2022
I’m looking at the blob of clay that has been “work from home” as a content creator. It’s been an interesting life path ~ One I’m wondering if I took the wrong way. That too, is successful. “We learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes.” ~T. Berry Brazelton Yikes! So, as … More 339 Days of Change: Life Path
342 Days of Change. ReWrite
April 3, 2022
Between 2013-2019, I went through the most painful period of my life. We live in a journey. Life has two paths. Stagnation and generatively. To be honest, I’d choose a long spell of doing nothing. Stagnation sounds pretty good in this world of toxic and violent people everywhere. And yet, we get bored when we … More 342 Days of Change. ReWrite
351 Days of Change: I can quit you
March 25, 2022
How many times do you hear yourself say, “I CAN quit you” [?] No, not THAT sort of quit. I’m talking about who and what we choose to invite into our lives. At the moment, I’m talking about our company alliances. Yes. We get to choose them. Not the other way around. I’m not talking … More 351 Days of Change: I can quit you
364 Days of Change
March 14, 2022
This 365 days didn’t take a day off into account. That’s a solo business owner thing we need to change. I never give myself a day off. Many people who are working as indie people are working harder than if we had decided on that quintessential 9-5. Yesterday, I wrote #364 ~ then put it … More 364 Days of Change
Why would you change your name? [Karen]
February 17, 2022
Seriously? Do I have to explain further? Probably. People ALWAYS need explanations, rather than just accept you for who you are. I was given a name at birth. Karen [maiden name withheld for obvious reasons… hackers] 🙂 I got into writing fiction in 2006, so chose a pen name ~ as so many fiction writers … More Why would you change your name? [Karen]
Why write more?
February 12, 2022
Why ask someone you don’t know why they’re doing what they’re doing? 🙂 Okay, just playing ~ seriously though … I am writing across four platforms for a few reasons. Remember, Stephen King says, “Writers write” ~ in his book, On Writing. It’s exercise! Even the BEST writers are writing. I’m not the best. I … More Why write more?
What are we becoming?
February 6, 2022
It’s not popular to speak one’s mind without fame and money to back up the freedom of speech concept. Education is being dismissed in the media in lieu of google self help classes? The topic of carrying guns has become our national debate? Instead of the health of our children? What? People walking around on … More What are we becoming?
Everything is Energy ~
January 30, 2022
I had a 200,000 word flow of thoughts written here prior to 2022. From October to December. Rants. Rage. Frustration. Love. Healing. It’s all energy. They lacked clarity and direction. The energy felt … off but then the thought popped up. Off for whom? Not me. It was on point for me. The readers reading … More Everything is Energy ~
Scandalous
January 23, 2022
If you want scandal, call Shonda Rhimes. I’m here as a healer so if you’re an abuser, I will first expose you, and then, talk about that, as any good writer would, and then, forget that you exist entirely, as any wild woman of the sisterhood would. That’s what Shonda has mastered. She is a … More Scandalous
Metaphor vs Literal ~ Which is best in online conversation
January 22, 2022
Depending on your brain, how do you interpret the world? Are you literal? Metaphorical? Something else? Do you imagine with sight, sound, numbers, smell? Do you use critical thinking, or are you a visual learner? Our brain is a processor, but no two brains are alike. So how do we navigate the art of online … More Metaphor vs Literal ~ Which is best in online conversation
What’s Trending for the Middle Ages Right Now?
January 21, 2022
Well let’s see ~ IF you are good looking (ahem, and also thin) ~ you are given a pass to have an opinion online IF you are wealthy (regardless of size) ~ you are given a pass to have an opinion online IF you are well connected (regardless of wealth or size) ~ you are … More What’s Trending for the Middle Ages Right Now?
WordPress is Pressing …
January 17, 2022
I have to organize my thoughts, time and schedule. It’s the only way to make it as a small business owner. Especially when I am the everything for the company. Well, the cats say they help, but seriously, they only help in forcing me to remember that I have to work hard enough to earn … More WordPress is Pressing …
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