The last thing I want to do is stop. I don’t want to give up. The last place I want to go is the end of the line. The last thing I want to hear is the sound cut off. The last thing I want to see is the fading…

Writing a bog every day? — In my blogging journal on an undated page I was reading, I had written a comment, back in 2020, that made me toss my journal across the desk in anger. Now, two years later, I can see how the comments I used were self-fulfilling prophecies: “I don’t think I’m going…

We all have a common goal — What You Need To have a viral blog, I need a headline that sounds interesting and somehow promises to offer something of value to the reader. According to Tim Denning, anyway, that will, potentially, help a blog to go viral. Yet, ProBlogger promotes a slightly different message. (11 Tips to Create a Personal…

How Does a Person Accomplish a Novel-Writing Goal? I wrote a blog post in 2015 that I never published about obtaining a goal that I have sought after for most of my life and never accomplished. At the time I was working on a novel with a working title: My…

Learning from others about succeeding by failing and growing by simplifying 10X vs 2X Today, I learned why 10X is easier than 2X. It is because, to do 10X you need to simplify. Fixed vs Growth You need to produce at 80%, not 100%, because 100% is perfectionism, a fixed mindset, and 80%…

It is my calling to teach, and my life can be fodder to that call — On this rainy, cool, Monday morning, I am addressing my future self and wondering exactly how to spend my time. Too many people spend their latter years waiting to die. But I am not amenable to that form of “relaxation” or morbid anxiety and thoughts of how I succeeded in…

Why I changed my mind I wrote a dissertation on why I don’t believe in God or gods, yesterday. I explained how prayers work in the absence of a god, and how I have experienced paranormal events in my life that have convinced me of the existence of those things…

Can you picture it? — At a month and a half shy of my 71st birthday, I find I am questioning my beliefs and my passions. I think about my novel writing and my blogs, and I think about my belief in God and the cruel nature of nature. I wonder if there is a…