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A Procrastinator's Guide to Getting it Done (Part 5: Productivity)

Being productive is about both the visible and the invisible, action and substance.

First a few questions for you to consider:

Did you have a productive day today (or yesterday if you are reading this in the morning)?

How much did you do?

How do you personally quantify and or qualify productivity?

How important were the things you did and by whose standard?

How do the things you accomplished fit into the big picture of what you want for your life?

Merriam-Webster’s tells us that…

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A Procrastinator's Guide to Getting It Done (Part 4b Motivation: Form and Function)

Most of us confuse or collapse the form and function of what we say we want. Making the distinction will help you get clear on your motivation and may reveal something new to you about your goals and desires.

In my last post, I discussed two ways of looking at motivation: processes/conditions and goals/outcomes (motive). Today, we will continue to look at motivation by exploring form and function and the importance of being able to make and recognize the distinction.

When we are asked what we want, most of us will respond with a form or a state of being. We might say we want to live in New York or we…

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A Procrastinator's Guide to Getting It Done (Part 4: Motivation)

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Getting It Done (Part 4: Motivation)

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ~ Rumi

In the previous post, I wrote about momentum. Momentum is about sustaining action (large and small) long enough that our project picks up a speed of its own and carries us along with it. We don’t feel like we have to push so much.

Motivation is about what gets us into (or out of) action in the first place.It speaks…

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A Procrastinator's Guide to Getting It Done (Part 3: Momentum)

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Getting It Done (Part 3: Momentum)

Momentum: 1: a property of a moving body that the body has by virtue of its mass and motion and that is equal to the product of the body’s mass and velocity; broadly a property of a moving body that determines the length of time required to bring it to a rest when under the action of a constant force or moment 2: strength or force gained by motion or through the development of events. –…

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A Procrastinator's Guide to Getting It Done: (part 2: emotional games we play with ourselves)

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Getting It Done: (part 2: emotional games we play with ourselves)

In my last post, I discussed how we can rebuild our self-trust by making commitments to our goals and them chunking them down into bite-sized doable bits. In this post, I am going to address how our inner dialog and dynamic stirs emotions that impact our self-trust and discipline.

It takes discipline to meet your daily commitments to yourself,regardless of your emotions, regardless of…

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Your Dreams Can Come True - (part 1: rebuild self-trust)

Your Dreams Can Come True – (part 1: rebuild self-trust)

“Every time you break a promise, you are loading your karmic backpack with the pebbles of broken agreements.” Patrick Ryan

Are you trustworthy? Do you keep promises you make to others? What about promises you make to yourself?

First, a story:*

Let’s say you are having a conversation with a friend and you mention that you are going to start running every morning.

Your friend says “Hey! That sounds…

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Fire Drill

Last Saturday was my birthday. I’ve been treated to a couple of dinners, gifts, a mailbox full of cards, phone calls and a long string of celebrations from Facebook friends. Say what you will about the latter, it certainly lifted my resonance. Thanks to everyone who made my day that much brighter!

I enjoy celebrating my birthday and Summer Solstice with collage or a Tarot reading and this year,…

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Hello Goodbye - Earth Day Musing

Hello Goodbye – Earth Day Musing

As I trouble over following my mother’s health directive to administer more pain medications to relieve her of the ongoing suffering bone cancer inflicts, I worry about whether or not she has said goodbye. Not so much to each of us, as we have all been saying goodbye for some time now. I wonder if she will have another chance to really take in the trees outside her window, and the blue sky. Will…

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Full Moon Release Ceremony - Let it Go, Let it Go...

Full Moon Release Ceremony – Let it Go, Let it Go…

A search engine will return many blog posts related to how to do a ceremony at the full moon to let go of that which you no longer want to think about, carry, or have in your life. This is not an instructional post. This is a personal account of the impact and outcome of moon energy coupled with exquisite attention and commitment.

My last post was about the natural rhythm of the seasons vs the…

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