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It’s too easy for us to get caught up in the vision we’re driving towards and ignore our own health and well-being along the way. If you can have a life while you run your business — if you can lead a healthy, well-rested, diverse life, that is, rather than a workaholic one — your clarity, productivity, and creativity will all benefit. And those aren’t things that are just nice to have — they’re critical to your success as an …
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
For those of us who have been seriously blocked at times–and man, I have been there and can still be there–sometimes the hardest thing to do is to just DO the work ANYWAY (see the first two years of this blog). I can tell you that when I was blocked I was NOT short on ideas, inspiration, or plans, what I was short on was patience, humility, and action. I loved the IDEA of creating in a concrete way, but …
I just feel the need to say one simple thing: I am just a girl who one day woke up and decided she had had enough of the life she didn’t love and decided to change that. That’s all.
It wasn’t money that got me to where I am, it wasn’t years of education, contacts, superpowers, conferences, or books. What got me to where I am is the simple act of making a decision and following through no matter what.
It is …
I’ve been entertaining the idea of writing just a little; I still like to write about travel and spas with hopes of sharing my experience so that someone can create their own. When I thought about writing an article on a recent spa trip it felt like I was catching up with an old friend, and I discovered I wasn’t quite ready to let her go. I realised I enjoy writing as a special guest and not as a permanent …
The last couple of months I’ve been very busy with work. Looking at my schedule for the rest of the year I see it doesn’t let up anytime soon. Most of the work centres around photography, designing some sites, graphic work for books and magazines, and a few other odds and ends.
It doesn’t, however, centre around writing.
That’s because my dream has evolved. It happened awhile ago but I’ve been in a slight bit of denial about I because I used …
The Chronicles of Girl at Play began in April 2001 as a way for me to chronicle my leaving a successful corporate position to become a self-employed writer.
