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Joao Charlesbois
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No dream is too big for you to achieve, as long as you have the right attitude. Too often our fears get in the way of what we hope to accomplish. But this can be remedied by writing down all what we desire and fear, thereby unlocking the power of the subconscious mind and putting us on the right path. The simple act of writing is a powerful one that is not unlike a prayer, and it can turn us into a magnet for the things we want most in our lives.
Take some quiet time at the beginning of your day to write down what you'd like to accomplish in the hour ahead. This is not for practical stuff like doing the laundry or going shopping. Its provide emotional and spiritual guidance for the day, "just write your intent down will keep you feeling grateful and positive throughout the day"...
I listened to a podcast a few years ago that talked about the importance of writing out your goals. Just by physically writing something down, you are 80% more likely to be successful. Just by writing it down!
How do we make time to work out? It takes discipline. It may mean waking early before the children. It may mean exercising during naptime when the little ones are resting. I want my children to know that exercise is important so I often include them in this hour of the day. My older children will play basketball or ride bikes in our driveway and my younger children will stay on a blanket near me with a basket of toys. (This doubles as blanket time for them!)
One category of our financial plan is managing our household grocery budget. It seems that each year this category of spending increases as we have more children and the children grow and have bigger appetites!
If your kids are older, get them involved in the process. They can certainly do chores but also help with the extras. For instance, my 5- and 7-year-old are capable of cleaning out their toys and school supply drawers.
Do you have any goals written down? What do you want to accomplish in 2017? What longer term goals do you have? Even taking 15 minutes today and writing down five goals for 2017 is a good start. By writing down your goals, you declare yourself in the game. Write it down, make it happen!
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It is very common for graduate students to make the same erroneous comparison to academics and researchers who have published books and articles in their research area. They look at published research and forget that they are reading the final, revised and edited version. The published work has usually been through peer review or careful developmental editing by a publisher. There were certainly previous and much messier drafts with errors, holes in logic, omissions, and big messes. What you read in print is the polished end product. If you keep comparing your efforts to this product, you are bound to feel inadequate.
Certainly, there are academics who are very prolific writers who are able to write a literature review in a weekend or churn out pages of beautiful prose overnight. But there is one very significant difference between those academics and you: experience. They have simply engaged in more academic writing than you and become proficient at writing over time. You, however, are unlikely to have that kind of experience at this juncture in your life. This fact may not be your preference but I encourage you to avoid demanding that you must be able to write at the same level as more experienced academics. If you are committed to writing well, you will improve with continued practice and experience but that takes time. I encourage you to practice allowing yourself time to write rough, messy, beginner drafts. Bolker (1999) encouraged students to think of beginner drafts as the opportunity to make a mess so you have something to clean up, improve over time, and eventually turn into a piece of writing you feel good about.
Beginner drafts are about letting yourself write with abandon, letting go of concerns about spelling, grammar, word choice, sentence structure, meaning, style, organization, or your argument. The main goal of writing at this stage is to just keep writing and get something down on paper (Bolker, 1989). Stephen King (2002), in his book On Writing, described the first draft as the draft you write with the office door closed. It is the draft you write without consideration of your audience and only after you have something drafted, is it appropriate to crack the door open and begin to consider your audience as you revise and improve your draft. Graduate students often write their first draft as if their advisor or committee is sitting there in the room reading what they are writing. They would do well to close the office door when they write early drafts of their dissertation and let go of concerns about what their advisor or committee would think of their work at this stage.
There are two objective behaviors you can use to help you make the shift to writing beginner drafts. One, pick a narrow, specific writing goal that is something you can reasonably accomplish in a day. A narrow writing goal can make it easier to let go of high standards for a first draft if you know you will be drafting just one small part of your dissertation. Second, plan time in your timeline and/or action plan to write beginner drafts. Many of my clients actually plan to write crappy, shitty, beginner, baby or rough, rough drafts of specific subsections of their dissertation in their timeline or action plans. Then at some later date (even the next day), they plan time to revise the draft. Knowing that they have planned time to revise in the future helps them let go and just write a beginner draft in the present. I know writing beginner drafts may feel uncomfortable and awkward but it is important if you want to become a more productive writer. Keep practicing letting go of excessive standards for your writing and give yourself the gift of seeing how freeing it can be to write a beginner draft and revise it later. You may find that writing this way becomes second nature and that consequently you get a lot more writing done.
I'm a visual artist obsessed with optimism. Originally from California, now living in New York. This is a space where I think through and share notes on art, art worlds, transparency, positive psychology, and my process.
Artists make objects. The very activity of manipulating materials with an openness to their possibilities is the development of our own practices. We use imagination, courage, and will to take creative risks and sustain activities and engagement that can lead to enjoyment and flow (see Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow).
Artists make creative possibilities happen in terms of their personal development (object + possibilities = practice). We also make creative possibilities happen in terms of the development of the field, when our object-possibilities are accepted into the cannon, and they shift what constitutes contemporary art, therefore advances knowledge (see Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity). In this case, what artists make happen is a result of what artists make.
So what artists make happen are opportunities for shared aesthetic, intellectual, emotional, and communicative engagement and action. The engagement is shared, as there is mutual investment of attention and space for cooperative action.
This week, articles in the Village Voice and the NY Times bemoaned the vast influx of money in art. Art auctions, art fairs, and mega-galleries that show works collected by the 1% are part of the art world, but equating them with the art world (as the Voice writer did) or only reviewing those exhibitions and fairs (as some NYT writers tend) are mistakes.
There are multiple art worlds. In mine, art auctions, secondary markets, and multi-million dollar transactions are on the periphery. I focus my attention on the center, which is abundant with artists, especially those who make things happen.
Epiphany is one of those great words in the English language, meaning a moment of sudden realization. It usually feels quite profound and transformative in some way. As writers, you will all know about writing epiphanies. You will also likely know that many of them happen when you are not at your computer or journal, actually working on the writing that the epiphany is about.
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In Write It Down, Make It Happen, researcher Henriette Klauser explains how you can use this technique to achieve what you want in life. This includes not just the initial act of writing down your desires, but also some of the science behind it, as well as other writing techniques to help you on the way.
Spread throughout your brainstem is a wide, complex web of connected neurons called the reticular activating system, or RAS for short. It is one of the oldest parts of our brain and takes care of several basic, but essential biological functions. In essence, what it does is prime your subconscious to focus on certain triggers over others.
The 22 year old college student, who makes lots of resolutions, but fails to see them through, the 38 year old suburban mom, who complains a lot to her friends, and anyone who quit working on their last big goal too early.
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