Tag: Goals
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How I’m Leveling Up my Writing
In Monday’s post, I talked about leveling up areas of my life. I used fairly broad, vague concepts, so today I want to break down three things I’ve been doing to level up my writing during the pandemic lock down, and three ways how I’m hoping to keep up it in the future. Writing, writing,…
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What I learned during Camp NaNoWriMo (April 2020)
Camp NaNoWriMo, April 2020 edition, wrapped up last week. It’s similar to regular NaNo in November, except during Camp, you set your own writing goal. I set mine low at 30,000 words (compared to the 50,000-word goal during NaNo) because April was supposed to be crazy busy with ministry and life things. But I planned…
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The Three Month Mark
At the beginning of October, about six months before my thirtieth birthday, I started a six month focus on four goals: Mental/spiritual health Physical health Finances Writing Ultimately, the purpose was two-fold. First, these are practical things to help start my thirties off on the right foot. These benefits are already manifesting in many ways:…
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How I Won NaNoWriMo in 2019
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, or just NaNo) has just wrapped up for 2019. This annual event see writers from around the world attempt to write 50,000 words in November, or 1,667 words every day for thirty days. This was my fourth time participating, and my third year ‘winning’. I use the words ‘win’ and…
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Letting Go Beautifully
There’s a great quote making the social media rounds that says: The trees are about to show us how beautiful it is to let things go. Unknown The leaves are just starting to turn here, and when they start, they go fast. But the beauty isn’t just in the leaves changing colours, there is beauty…
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The Next Six Months
Have you ever had something – a quote, an idea, a song, anything – pop into your life, and then you can’t shake it? Just when you think it’s gone, it comes back. It’s been happening somewhat regularly lately. Usually it means I’m avoiding something Most recently, it’s been happening with this quote: Six months…
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Never Miss a … Wednesday?
Never miss a Monday. It’s a common (almost clichéd) phrase used particularly in fitness circles, to motivate people to start their week on the right foot, perhaps with a good solid sweat session or healthy meal. The phrase may not apply directly to other goals, but the sentiment does. Start your goals strong to set…
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What I learned doing NaNoWriMo
On Halloween I was like a kid waiting for Christmas. It wasn’t because I love Halloween, or because I was excited to play Christmas carols. It was because National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) started on November 1. During the month of November thousands of people around the world attempt to write a 50,000 word novel…
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Avoiding the Sprawl
A few times while I lived in Toronto I ventured outside the city. I was always struck by how much the GTA sprawled. There was nothing but buildings. The only way I could tell I was in a new city was the signs marking the boundaries. Where were the fields, or trees, or something between…
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Take that Baby Step
I generally enjoy articles and podcasts about productivity and goal setting, especially related to writing. And the one piece of advice I hear in almost every one is: in order to achieve your goal you need to show up and do something. Regardless of whether the purpose of the article or podcast is to teach a method for…
Lauren van Vliet, author 