Sep 18, 2013 | coaching, tools, Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot about accountability lately. It’s something that we love to hate. (and if you’ve not got a heap of time, please click here and tell me how you like your accountability to look. Thanks!) We need it, but wish we didn’t....
Jul 23, 2013 | coaching, tools, writing
So! You’re writing and that’s great. You even have a date you want to finish by. A deadline! But. What happens when you stop? Have you ever had your writing gradually peter out over the course of a week, or maybe two, leaving you to feel like inspiration...
Jul 11, 2013 | coaching, writing
Hello there! Today I’m posting about meeting your Resistance – that pesky wall you have that feels like an electric fence buzzing away inside you. There are many, many ways of understanding resistance, but I’ve found that most of them lead me to...
Feb 26, 2013 | coaching, writing
So I was writing the other day, and then I stopped. When I thought about why – actually, I procrastinated for half a day, scrubbed the kitchen benches, ate lots of inappropriate food, did huge amounts of laundry that could have waited and stopped just short of...
Feb 11, 2013 | coaching, creativity, writing
“There is the NOW book, and there are the other books.” – Andrew Griffiths I was struck by this, because a lot of my clients do get stuck because there are lots of ideas in their heads about useful books that they can write. This is great on one...
Feb 11, 2013 | coaching, creativity, writing
Most of us have an idea in our minds of a writer as someone who writes effortlessly, regularly, and has access to the Muse on demand. It can be hard to sit down and put words on a page when writing can feel stilted, clunky and artificial. Many of us secretly feel like...