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Entries Tagged as 'Motivation'

2nd Draft of my novel — Complete!

June 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

My wife and I celebrated the completion of the 2nd draft of my novel last week. We went out to dinner and toasted to my small victory. Actually, calling it a small victory may not be the best choice of words, since it felt like a pretty significant victory. It was tough to stay committed [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Motivation · writing

Personal Story – How to Give Up Smoking

May 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments

My personal story of how I quit smoking falls in line with the tradition of Morgan Spurlock (Supersize me, 30 days). I’m not sure, maybe he even did something like this in his 30 day series. If he hasn’t, well Morgan… go ahead and steal my idea, it’s a good one especially considering the barrage [...]

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Tags: Humor · Miscellaneous · Motivation

Challenges Met, Competitors Vested, Obstacles Overcome

March 27th, 2010 · No Comments

If you’d like to look back on a life of achievement, as I know I most certainly would, here’s some advice that I think can help you out. There is a method I’ve discovered for achieving most goals that I find effective, and that involves committing to what I call the “doable minimum”. The doable [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Motivation

How to wake up early in the morning

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Having recently completed Nanowrimo, I decided to do this blog post on how to wake up early in the morning. For those of you who don’t know, Nanowrimo is a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. It’s a feat I don’t think I would have accomplished had I not [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Motivation

A Fisherman’s Catch

May 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Once upon a time, a lonely fisherman caught a beautiful mermaid in his net. The fisherman did not believe in mermaids so to him the sight was a miracle. He pulled up the net and opened it on the bow of his boat. He wasn’t sure what to do, so he tried to cover her [...]

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Tags: Motivation · Short Stories