For many years I’ve journaled by hand in a nice Moleskine notebook using a Waterman fountain pen. Far from a regular habit my journal is a place of retreat when life isn’t tracking the way I want it to. I realised some time ago that I would refrain from writing anything unless I had solitude [...]
Browsing Posts in Writing
I’ve just set up another blog (more on that to come) and have been holding back from writing. It didn’t feel like the right place to put down any thoughts. Yesterday I got the look and feel as I wanted it and thought that perhaps blogging on-screen is just like writing on paper. You need [...]
A few days ago I wrote on the last page in my moleskine journal. It took me 10½ months to write on each of the 240 pages. The journal is a record of my internal thinking over that period and I’d like to share with you some of what I learnt about the writing process [...]
No, I haven’t been lucky enough to spend a week with author Paulo Coehlo personally yet in a way I have. In his most recent Warrior of the Light newsletter he has shared a week’s worth of experiences with his readers. Sometimes readers complain that I say very little about my private life in this [...]
“I can’t do it”, “Why would they listen to me?”, “I am not important”. Do statements such as these make you feel empowered to take on the world or empowered to crawl into a hole? For some reason our minds seem wired to bring us down. So many people exhibit the poor little old me [...]
If your body is tense you can massage it into relaxation. What if your mind is tense? How do you relax that? It is possible to eliminate stressful thinking and massage your mind into relaxation. This is the second in a series of articles on stress management explaining the simple and practical ways in which [...]
Clarity is always important. Megan Casey over at SquidBlog provides a great tip and example of how clarity can enhance a book referral. If you read it and apply the principles, you can see how you can expand your blog linking as well. If you network, the same applies there as well when describing ideal [...]
I return to Quantum Gardener today without a clear idea of what I’m going to do with the site. Since early 2002 I’ve been blogging in one form or another. Probably longer if you consider buch@n which was started during 1999 when my wife and I were in London. Blogging has brought contact with some [...]
A student recently wrote a letter to my local paper seeking advice on motivation. My life is at a turning point; I’ve finished VCE [Year 12] and am now faced with the question of what I want to do with my life…I’m interested to find out what people do to get, and stay, motivated. I [...]
