Sometimes sticking with something isn’t the most effective use of your energy. Here are four times when you don’t want to do your best.
Category: Self-Improvement for Book Dragons
5 Goal Systems to Improve Your Writing
Fun fact about me: I started learning to play the piano after making a goal to do so during a preschool lesson. I’d just finished learning to tie my shoes, and apparently playing the piano was the next thing on my list. And I have never stopped making goals, because they are awesome. Like, seriously,…
3 Questions to Help You Get to Bed
Last week, I wrote about how lack of sleep has kept me from writing and reading. And why do I often not sleep enough? Quality of sleep aside, I have a hard time getting to bed on time. And while I’ve found 500 articles about sleep hygiene, I’ve found very few about how to go…
3 Ways to Make Time for Writing
Amid work, relationships, community service, and everything else I have to or want to do, writing and reading get lost more often than I’d like. Sure, I write every day — I am a professional writer — but my creative writing tends to take a back seat to everything else I have to or…
Candles, Crowns, and Ethnic Identity
White people often conflate being American and being white. Embrace your heritage so you can be less racist.
