“Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.” ~ Steven Pressfield “Fairness is not anContinue reading “Mind Shift from Amateur to Professional”
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Writer Expectations
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” ~ C. S. Lewis “My literature is much more the result of a paradox than than of an implacable logic,Continue reading “Writer Expectations”
On Specialness
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ ” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt “Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinaryContinue reading “On Specialness”
Why I Left Organized Religion
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca “There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.” – Dalai Lama “True religion is real living;Continue reading “Why I Left Organized Religion”
What’s in a Word?
“The mind that opens up to a new idea never returns to its original size.” – Albert Einstein “We don’t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another.” – Janis Ian “If man understood that ‘what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating’ then he wouldn’t beContinue reading “What’s in a Word?”
Sage Woman Chronicles 