Deep Breaths

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties ~ Barbara Walters

Boundaries are hard to abide by. If you’re like me, you probably made a big goal and are trying to accomplish it. Or, also like me, you enjoy doing something so much that it starts to consume much of your time.

Two things usually happen. First of all, I tired out and then boundaries are not problem to abide by…LOL  After that, I revise my plans and try to accomplish as much as I can in as little time as possible, leaving plenty of time for rest, relaxation, and play.  And again, once I find the balance, boundaries are usually not a problem.

How do you keep everything in balance?



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Play a Shoestring

You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere ~ John Coltrane

I have no doubt you could play a tune on a shoestring if you were determined! All it would take is…you got it!

Create a Vision
Set Goals
Develop and Follow Routines
Define Boundaries
Find a Friend

Even I have been struggling with my morning routines lately. There’s so much I want to get accomplished, yet so much to do. I’ve taken the same approach at home with work by emailing myself things I think of that need to be done after work. I also try to accomplish one or two tasks before I start making dinner or while dinner is cooking.

I am going on Week 2 of not getting up in the morning. I know it’s temporary, I’ve done it before. I’m not freaking out just yet that my mornings have gone to hell, but still maintain that my normal routine is to get up at 4:30/5:00 each morning and work on my writing projects before I go to work. I know I’ll get back to those routines soon, if not this week.

How did you get back on track after a bout of missing daily or weekly routines?



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Here's to Elephants

Here’s to elephants ~ Jill Badonsky

Today is Elephant Appreciation Day. In honor of elephants and their memories, let’s remember our goals and the why behind the goals.

I love writing. Working on my projects has helped me get through the summer. I remember my goals because I do work full time and I want to continue to produce publishable manuscripts.

What are some of your goals and why have you set them? I’d love to hear!



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Fountain of Youth

There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will have truly defeated age ~ Sophia Loren

I truly feel young when I am busy working on my dream goals. When I returned to school to finish my degree, I remember how energized that made me feel. No longer was I coming home and crashing at night, but coming home and working on homework and class projects.

Same now. Last winter when I took a break from writing and other dream goals, I sure felt old. In bed by 9 pm, some nights earlier, home on the weekends before “traffic” got too bad. Since my life changed in May, I can certainly tell the difference when I am working on my romance novels and this blog regularly. It keeps me young.,

How does working on your dream journey keep you feeling young? I’d love to hear!



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Ideas

I don’t know where my ideas come from. They just come, usually when I’m mowing the lawn, driving to work, or walking my hound ~ Ron Kofron

Sometimes my greatest ideas come not when I’m sitting down and working but doing a million other things. Now that I always have my cell phone with me, I have a place to capture notes and ideas and review them later. It wasn’t always that easy before cell phones.

The best ideas I have for my romance novels come from church. There I have the bulletin make notes and then I have info about Bible verses, hymns, etc.

I’d love to hear about the craziest place and best idea you’ve come up with on your dream journey?



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Timing

Life is all about timing…the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable…attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It’s all about timing ~ Stacey Charter

Patience. It’s something I don’t have any more.

I developed my patience as a corporate trainer back in the early 2000’s. I was able to empathize with new employees trying to learn about, in some instances, the banking industry, and, in may instances, how the system worked. For some, it was the first time they worked on a computer ever. (Yes, that was 2001.)

But when it comes to my dream goals, I am very impatient. I remember being two weeks in a January Big Weeks month while selling Tupperware. I had not recruited any new consultants and even my own party schedule was lacking. My director (distributor at the time) told me as long as I was doing the work each day/week to date parties and recruit consultants, in time my  team and my sales would grow. I’d achieve my goals, but it takes…TIME.

Same thing with my writing. I wished I could sit down and pound out 10,000 words per day. Sometimes my daily 500 word goal takes me longer than I really want. Although I won’t get more than two novels published a year, my writing is goal is what I can handle right now.

Be patient with yourself, be patient with your goals. As long as your completing your daily and weekly routines to reach your goals, you’ll get there when the time is right.

I’d love to hear about time when you were impatient with the process?



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Humorous Wisdom

Here’s to wisdom that can be framed humorously ~ Jill Badonsky

The best friends can help you find humor in everything! My friend Cindee and I laugh about so many good memories that are more than ten years old.

Don’t fall asleep when tanning because you might end up in the shade.

Traffic isn’t really that bad if you’re going 55 mph (or the posted speed limit) during rush hour.

Don’t lock your keys in the van because someone might have to drive 50 miles to unlock the vehicle.

Our dream paths have diverged, but we’re still the best of friends. What are some funny memories you have with your dream buddy?



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Boundaries are a Good Thing

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived ~ Rose Macaulay

Sometimes I feel like a hypocrite blogging about following routines in one post and then touting the benefits of setting boundaries in the next. This time hasn’t been so bad. On Sunday, my post was about NOT becoming monster in pursuit of your goals.

Labor Day Weekend I took a quick trip to Colorado to take care of some business. I stayed with my longtime friends and we talked about my writing routines. When I explained that I stopped writing every day when I reached my 500 word count goal, they were shocked.

“What if you are in the middle of a really good part?” I stop writing and move on to the next task for the day.

“What if you forget where you left off or what the next step was?” Sometimes I write myself a note, but I stop writing once I reach my goal.

I keep a hard boundary around my 500 word count goal for two reasons. The first one is because if I didn’t have that goal, it would take forever for me to get a novel written. The word count is a minimum goal. My goal is also a maximum goal. If I didn’t stop when I reached the goal, I could spend all day writing and not get anything else done some days.

Boundaries help me to reach minimum goals and not over do it either. How do boundaries help you?



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Monsters

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn’t become a monster ~ Frederich Nietzsche

I would not have published three novels if I had not followed routines religiously. Setting daily goals and accomplishing those goals in a certain order has also helped me become more efficient at my job, and more organized at home as well.

Holiday rituals are routines as well. I’m sure you have certain traditions you look forward to and follow when it comes to Thanksgiving, Christmas, even the summer holiday weekends.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned lately about routines in not turning into a monster to achieve them. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with stopping at nothing to achieve a goal. Once you have things under control, it’s okay to let things go on autopilot. Life does get in the way and you have to take care of life stuff first sometimes.

For example, every Labor Day weekend, my mother’s family has a big family reunion. We do hamburgers and hot dogs on Saturday night and a big potluck on Sunday. We’ve done this for sixteen years. But this year, I had to forego the family reunion to take a trip to Denver, Colorado to finish some business from my separated spouse who passed away. As much as I wanted to see my aunts, uncles, and cousins and catch them up on my current life adventures, my business trumped my routine.

Now I could have said, I have a family reunion to go to, so the business trip must wait. It was more important to get the business taken care of. I couldn’t allow myself to become a monster to because of my labor day routines.

Tell me about a time you refused to become a monster despite your drive to accomplish goals and routines?



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Meep! Meep!

Meep! Meep ~ The Road Runner

When I first looked at this quote, I chuckled and passed it by as possible blog post header. But nearly immediately, I laughed out loud and told myself it would be the perfect quote.

The reason why this quote works so well for the blog, especially when setting goals is the topic, is because I remember the Road Runner being the embodiment of setting an achieving goals. He had one goal: escape the clutches of Wile E. Coyote. He achieved his goal every single time.

Whenever it feels like you’re not getting anywhere or you’re having problems focusing on your goals, think of the Road Runner and his one goal.

How do you find focus on setting and achieving goals?



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Life to be Lived

In between goals is a thing called life that has be lived and enjoyed ~ Sid Caesar

Many times, the vision of reaching a dream journey includes living a dream lifestyle. For some people that is living in an exotic location. For others it might be the same place they grew up and have always, just a little easier with extra money from reaching sales or other career goals.

But I think it’s also important to give yourself rewards as you make the small goals. For example, as much as I want to save my royalty checks for something significant, I always find smaller rewards that seem to do the trick. Last summer, I bought a new recycle bin and a new trash bin with my royalties (don’t laugh, I am old, home furnishings make me giddy now).

And don’t forget, like the quote says, there is life to be lived between goals. I’ve blogged about that the last couple of weeks. Sometimes life gets in the way. Thankfully for me, I’ve taken care of everything and moving forward.

Tell me about a reward you gave yourself when you achieved a small goal.



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LIberating, Transporting, and Restoring

Here’s to being liberated, transported, and restored, all for free in our imagination ~ Jill Badonsky

The awesome thing about figuring out your dream goal is that your imagination really is your limit. Once you figure out your goal, it really is liberating, restorative and transporting.

Did you feel this when you found your dream journey?



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A Lack of Sel-Realization

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread ~ Richard Wright

For those of you following me, you might know I became separated from my husband of eight and a half years in May and then he passed away suddenly last month. Throughout the last year, I’ve learned to take care of myself first.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. Right after I graduated from high school, I got involved with Amway and started reading self help books. Those type of non-fiction books propelled my reading for the next fifteen years. It was those books about improving myself that got me through my first break up.

I stopped reading to improve myself when I started writing fiction. I’ve read a few books about the craft of writing, but they got in the way of reading genre fiction to improve my writing. Now I understand the importance of keeping the self help books in the mix. I created a reading schedule that has worked well and I have been able to read a fiction book and keep up on my self improvement reading as well.

Although the events in my fiction writing do not mirror the events in the my life right now, keeping up on my writing has been been cathartic for me. In retrospect, writing has probably been my savior for the a long time.

I blogged a week or so ago about letting life get in the way. Now that the memorial service is over, I am back to my business of writing and helping others to achieve their dreams.

Tell me about a time when working on your dream goals helped you in a time of great stress or grief in your life.



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The Relatives You Make for Yourself

Friends are the relatives you make for yourself ~ Eustache Deschamps

Thanks goodness for friends in my biological family, church family, writer community, and on-line community. The last year has been crazy and thank goodness for people looking out for me and letting me know they care.

That’s the thing about dream buddies. The very best ones grow to love not only your dream, but you as well. They become concerned when other parts of your life aren’t going right. The best friends understand that when things aren’t right in the other parts of your life, they know you can’t devote the energy needed to make your dreams come true if other parts of your life are out of order.

The best dream buddies know when to push you and when to support you. I’m so happy that I’ve found a community of folks who understand that the last year has been about support and not pushing.

Tell me about a time when you had a supportive community.



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Trust Yourself

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live ~ Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

I mentioned last week that I had had a major life event come up the beginning of August and it set me back. For the first time in my life, I allowed myself the time to deal with the life issue and take care of myself. Before I would have continued to run  myself ragged, trying to accomplish goals that could wait and not dealing with the life issue at hand very well. I would have not worked the tasks at hand very well and only superficially dealt with the stressor in my life.

The difference is I trust myself now. It feels like I have been through hell and back, and now that it’s out of the way, I can move on. I trust myself that I’ll be able to accomplish the vision and goals I’ve set for myself, now is just not the time. The awesome thing is, once I got through the memorial service and time with my family, I was/am ready to kick ass. At the same time, I’ve had some other social and work obligations as well. But each day I set out to accomplish certain things and each day I’m getting them done.

When you trust yourself you’re able to set boundaries and keep balance in your life. It feels wonderful to be able to do that.

What changes came about in your life that allowed you to set boundaries, which in the long run helped you achieve a goal or dream?



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Alone

What lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be ~ Ellen Burstyn

Sixteen years ago, I joined a corporate training department. Not long after I started another new trainer started. My co-worker and I trained together for a time but then we were left to our own devices. I ran my classes and she ran hers, sometimes in different locations. Although we usually had office days on Mondays, we both had so much prep and project work today,we still rarely saw each other.

Such is the nature of a dream journey. Although you may join a group for training or orientation, once you find your vision and set your goals, many times you are left alone to work your routines that eventually help you realize your dream.

When I started writing, I had an optimal situation. My husband at the time was not a morning person and kept to himself. This allowed me to get up, exercise, then get my writing goal done for the day.When I was done with that, he was ready to socialize and we went on with our day together. I came to enjoy the first few hours to myself and now they aren’t so isolating. My morning time is sacred and energizing.

Do you feel alone or isolated when working on your dream goals?



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Scrambling Your Preconceptions

Every once in a blue moon, something new comes along that scrambles your preconceptions ~ Unknown

Once you have your vision figured out, the next step is to set your goals to attain that vision. The thing about a knockout vision is that you’ve got to have killer goals to match. That’s the once in a blue moon new “thing” that came to me. Big vision like writing romance novels required big goals to reach them.

Each day and each week my preconceptions are scrambled. I continue to adjust my routines and boundaries and then my time lines on my goals get reassigned as well. Most of the time it’s because I set too aggressive of a date for the goal I’m trying to accomplish. I’m getting better at this. The last couple of weeks dealing with a major stressor has helped me see that. There was nothing I could do, I needed to grieve and deal with a death in my life. My goals had to wait.

Now I have a clearer picture of what is attainable given my already busy life.

What was something that helped scramble your preconceptions lately?



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The Was Nothing, But You Could See it a Whole lot Better

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, “Let there be light!” And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ~ Ellen Degeneres

Sometimes before my vision comes to me, there is nothing. For example, I’ve gone two weeks again without promoting my new skin care products. Just like when I was involved in other direct sales companies, weeks at a time would go by when I wouldn’t work my business.

I’ve had some major stresses going on and the new me set a boundary that said, “This is not good for my business right now, but I need to step away and deal with this life issue. The business will always be there. I just won’t get there as fast as I want.” The old me would have felt guilty for not working the business, in spite of the stress and not dealt with the stress very well at all.

With a few minutes to spare in this downtime during my life event, I’ve made two significant decisions. The first decision I made to go ahead and expand my product line to include scents sooner than I thought. The other decision I made was to make my product in smaller batches. That has some pricing impacts, but I believe in my product and I think the public will, too. Had I not stepped away, I might not have been able to make these decisions that affect the overall vision of my fledgling company.

The one routine I haven’t faltered on has been my writing. I have faithfully gotten up every morning and made my writing goal since last Friday. My current project has nothing to do with the life event, but writing everyday has helped soothe my soul for the rest of the day.

How does your vision change when you take a break from your dream journey? I’d love to hear!



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Rejoice, for Your Soul is Alive!

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive ~ Eleonora Duse

The amazing thing about working on a dream journey is how much I enjoy the simplest and some of the most mundane things in life. Granted, being a writer, I am looking for ways to make the routine tasks of life more interesting in my writing, I still look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Even when I was finishing my degree and working full time, I enjoyed the weekends more and time with our extended family at the time. When I am the busiest, I seek to do more in less time and relish the downtime even more.

For instance…just today, I was up at 4:45 am, wrote my 500 words per day, and took my walk before work. After working all day, I came home and put together a promotional blog post then ran off to dinner with friends from work. I came home, took care of the chores and threw up a couple of blog posts. I still would like to watch some tv (actually watch a program, not have it on in the background) and get some reading done. Again, I am back into my routines, getting a lot accomplished including some socializing.

How does keeping busy help you on your dream journey?





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Freedom

Here’s to freedom in all of its forms ~ Jill Badonsky

Freedom.

For me, attainment of my current dreams and means freedom. In addition to financial security, I hope to attain control of my own time. I hope to work less and make more money.

I have always dreamed of the work from home job where if I decided to take the day off, I could. Last year after the Royals won the World Series and the city threw them a parade and a party, I wondered, “What jobs do those people have that allows them to just drop what their doing in two days to attend the parade?” Even my bosses are small business owners and they weren’t able to leave work that day.

It’s this vision of work that attracted me to direct sales. That dream has come full circle as I develop my coconut oil skin care line.  What I didn’t understand then that I know now is that it takes many years of hard work to attain that level of achievement and freedom. I wasn’t prepared to do the work fifteen years ago. I’m ready to do that now.

What does freedom mean to you and your dream journey?



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Scotch and Ginger Ale

Here’s to a ginger ale and scotch with a twist of lime on the rocks on a summer evening ~ Dean Frech

Sometimes the best thing to do with a dream buddy is go have a drink. Don’t talk about your dream journeys, just relax, and unwind. I can’t tell you how fun that can be and how much stress it can lift off of either of your shoulders. Even if you make a pact not to talk about your goals, the conversation almost always goes there. If you are successful in sticking to your boundaries, then maybe a part of the conversation will inspire you later.

PSA - if a drink is problematic, for whatever reason, you can substitute coffee, soda, or a meal. The point is, enjoy yourself and your dream buddy’s time together.



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Boundaries

Find people to hang out with that make you laugh incredibly hard ~ Jill Badonsky

Boundaries. Boundaries are so easy to talk about and state that you’ll abide by them, but sometimes, so hard to maintain.

I found out some bad news that my separated spouse passed away about a week ago. I realized as soon as I heard and processed the news that I needed to drop all routines and attend to myself for the week. I went out to dinner with some people from church to help process the loss on one night. I went to my sister-in-law’s for dinner another night and had a church meeting.   My one free night I took a one hour nap after work, and did some reading and watching tv but not much else.

The cool thing about all this is that there’s not a lot going on right now. I was able to step away from my routine and give myself time to process the loss. I didn’t accomplish my daily writing goal, not because of the death, but because my schedule required me to go into work very early. I’ve tried to write in the afternoons/evening after work, but it never works.

How do you deal with major roadblocks that need attention in your life? I’d love to hear how you handle such heavy obstacles in your dream journey.

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When Routines Surpass Your Expectations

Here’s to when a recipe surpasses your expectations ~ Jill Badonsky

Back in June, I was one month into my new separation and new found freedom. I had been doing a lot of “busy work,” but was very unorganized and a little ADD at times. I employed a technique that I use at work to make sure I was getting everything done that needed. I created a to-do list.

This to-do list included everything from cleaning the cat box every day, cleaning up the kitchen every night, and watering the outdoor plants. I also transferred my weekly appointments on the list, including my work schedule which varied at the time and haircuts. My hair stylist laughed at me one day when she saw that I had to put “clean up kitchen” on my list every day. (I had sent her a picture of the list that showed my appointment was on the list that week). By having weekly chores and appointments in front of me, I was able to determine exactly how much I could get done every day.

After three or four weeks, I was able to take those tasks off the list because I developed a routine and accomplished those tasks every day (on a side note, sometimes I skip cleaning up the kitchen and watering the plants, but I always take care of my cats!). I had to put some tasks back on my list as reminders of their importance to me, like oil pulling every day.  Sure, that’s a multi-task project (I can do just about anything else for 20 minutes while I swish coconut oil around in my mouth), but with it on the list, it’s a daily reminder to get it done.

I learned a long time ago to put routine tasks on your to do list until they truly become routine, like clockwork. So I encourage you to do the same. I put Promo on my daily list of non-negotiable to remind me to post promo on any of the social media sites. It’s something that if I don’t remind myself every day, it might not get done.

How do you make sure you get mundane, yet important tasks done as routinely as you need?



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Revising Goals

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done ~ Lucille Ball

Have you gone back to your new year’s resolutions or the last time you set a goals and revisited them? Did you make any revisions?

If you answered yes to either of those questions, good for you! You’re well on your way. I am the king of making large goals and then figuring out there’s no way possible to fit them in my already busy schedule. I am working on saying “no” to more things, being more productive, and at the same time, finding plenty of time to relax and enjoy myself. That’s coming from a man who has to put “1-hour or movie/tv” in his daily non-negotiable list of things to do, or it might not get done.

I’ve said before that goals are dreams with dates on them. Even though I would love to say I’ve met every one of my goals ever set on the date intended, that statement is the furthest from the truth. I am working on setting such a high expectation for myself so that I set more realistic goals, but in the meantime, I’m taking it easy on myself when I have to revise a deadline.

How about you? Do you accomplish your goals by the deadline or do you revise like me?



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August Quick Start

Without an open mind, you can never be a great success ~ Martha Stewart

I love the month of August. Many new starts in my life have taken place in August. On August 1, 1990 I started working full time. On August 1, 1994, I started working and moved to Colorado with the same company. In 1997 I started another job. In 2010, I started working at the job that would put me in touch with the doctors for whom I work today.

My father was a teacher. I never understood the hustle and bustle of August, but I understand it now. Summer band started by this point, summer sports, the county fair held in my hometown, and then the first day of the school year. I didn’t recognize the energy I felt during month of August until a friend at work pointed out it was because our parents were teachers and went back to school. It was the beginning of a new year for them and for us.

So nearly every year, I get burnt out and unfocused after Memorial Day and re-energized in August. It’s the same with me this year. I like to review my resolutions and goals I’ve made for the year and revisit them. After all, there is still five months of the year left. That’s a lot of time to accomplish goals that ultimately lead to dreams coming true.

Here is a link to my 2016 goals on my Romance Blog:

2016 Resolutions

I had to revise my writing goals. I reduced my daily writing goal to 500 words per day, which means I am only going to get one novel written this year. That’s okay, at my level, it’s all I can handle.

My second novel, Disappear With Me, will be re-released on August 20 through my publisher, so I didn’t have to go the self-publishing route.

Promo - that is the area on which I will focus for the rest of the year, more consistent promo.

In addition to my writing, I now have this blog to maintain and my new business, Coconut Concepts, so each of those ventures have goals.

It’s going to be a busy end of the year, but as long I stick to my routines and plans, I’m sure I will progress.

How about you? What does August mean to you?

Happy Independece Day!

Give what you have. To someone it may be better than what you dare to think ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Have you ever thought, “I’m too new at this, there’s nothing I can contribute?”



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