Because taking yourself too seriously denies you potential and possibilities. You probably know somebody with little to no sense of humor. Likewise, you probably know somebody who takes little to no joy in life. I’ll bet you even know people who frequently judge others, complain, lament various things, and take everything oh-so-seriously. These might all…
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Can I Create a Sustainable Income Via My Writing Work?
If others have created sustainable income via writing, I can, too. There are three utterly different styles of writing I employ regularly. This is the first because it’s the most frequent. Blogging. I write and post a minimum of 4 blogs a week. Each of these are topical – positivity and related on Mondays; writing,…
Can You Turn a Fleeting Idea Into A Creative Endeavor?
Yes, but you must do the work to make that fleeting idea into something more. Have you ever had an idea that came and went almost instantly? Or have you had an idea that nagged at you until you addressed it and did something with it? Sometimes, all you get is a fleeting vision, an…
Getting Work Done is Hard When Your Cat Turns You into a Bond Villain
But it is a reminder that breaks from getting work done are good. Sometime during the height of the pandemic, amid working from home full-time and regular Zoom calls, one of our cats decided she needed more regular attention. It started with her jumping on my desk and walking around/nuzzling my monitors. And the purr…
Why Won’t the Annoying Brain Weasels in My Head Shut Up?
Do you have chittering brain weasels messing with you? Confession time. While I can put on an excellent façade of confidence and self-assurance – I am in an ongoing war with self-doubt, my self-worth, and the like. This is a war I’ve been fighting all my life. Though I win many of the battles of…
How Do I Get Myself Back Writing into the Flow, Yo?
Some days you flow better than others with your work. Now that I’ve completed my Void Incursion sci-fi series – apart from editing and then having the book professionally edited – I’m done with the writing I’ve been doing. I am not, of course, done. As I’ve written before, I have planned out 10 more…
Step One: Write. Step Two: Edit. Step Three: Profit?
Sadly, step three (Profit) requires more steps – and some other intangibles. Since 2013, I have self-published 17 books in total on Amazon. Five of them are nonfiction and published under Murray “MJ” Blehart, while the other 12 are fiction under MJ Blehart. From the outside, it looks like there are 3 steps to the…
Am I Up for Another Round of Reevaluating, Rebranding, and Resolving Anew?
Of course I am! Life is all about reevaluating, rebranding, and resolving. Today I made an unintended statement that resonates with me quite a lot. Self-awareness is not a constant. Because it shifts so readily and frequently – it requires regular check-ins. It doesn’t matter what you do – doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, artist, teacher, whatever….
How Has my Winning 2022 Writing Plan Been Changed?
My writing plan for 2022 is shifting. And I am still working out how. In 2020, I’d determined it was time to start writing and publishing more. Thus, I published 3 books that year. For 2021, I got super ambitious. I was going to publish 6 novels total. All four that made up the first…
Ask Not for Whom the Writer Writes
The writer writes for thee – and for me. Why do I write? Because I love it. I take an almost perverse pleasure in putting words on the screen or page. And this has been so for over 40 years. I can be writing a blog about writing; an article about mindfulness, conscious reality creation,…