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How to End Well and the MBT Vision for 2012

By on January 3, 2012 in Writing Life, Writing Life Coaching

Last week in the Warren household, we had what I call, “Warren Life-Planning Class.”  It was mandatory attendance, taught by the parents to the four now-nearly-grown young adults.  Who may or may not have some challenges with time management (a.k.a missing college classes) and financial planning (a.k.a  an excess in pizza purchases).  I didn’t expect perfection – I just wanted to overview HOW to manage your life and time. I started with making them write their obituaries.  Probably not a great idea.  Peter wrote: “Peter Warren died after taking the Warren Life-Planning Class.”  Nice, real nice. But, it did get across one concept….everything they do now matters.  Every choice they make feeds into the next one.  Every habit they make embeds into the outcome of their life.  And every decision […]

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Make 2012 Count, Part 3: the Rent’s Due on the First

By on December 31, 2011 in Life Coaching, Reba Hoffman, Writing Life Coaching

Let’s face it. There are a few people in the world who internally drive themselves toward their desired goals. The rest of us just aren’t wired that way. If we don’t have a deadline, chances are we won’t finish the project. Repeat after me: Deadlines are my friends. They will keep you with your patooty in the seat and your fingers on the keyboard. You have so many distractions in today’s world, without deadlines, you’ll never get where you want to be. Think about it. Your rent or mortgage payment is due on the 1st. Because you know that, your purchases throughout the month are made with that in mind. You can’t afford to not have a roof over your head so you are diligent with your finances. The same […]

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Taking Stock of 2011

By on December 29, 2011 in Encourage Me!, Rachel Hauck, Writer's life, Writing Life, Writing Life Coaching

Time to belly up… how’d your writing goals fair in 2011? Did you set goals? Did you keep track? Did you succeed? Even a little bit? I bet you did. Come on now, if you wrote one page toward your writing goal of completing a novel, you’ve succeeded a little bit. A very little bit, but you did something. We have a tendency to stick our heads in the sand when we think we’ve failed at our goals. At attempting our dreams. Why confirm that silent but deep down fear: “I’m a failure.” By taking stock of our goals, our success and failures, enables us to move forward with a better grasp of where we are and why. Often when reviewing a goal, we find we didn’t fail as much […]

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Make 2012 Count, Part Two: On the Chopping Block

By on December 24, 2011 in Life Coaching, Reba Hoffman

I’m sure that in the last seven days, you set several goals. Some of those you feel confident you can achieve. Others appear to be quite a stretch. It’s like trying to run a marathon on hot coals with no shoes. No way in blazes you’ll finish that race. Don’t worry. There is hope, so keep reading. Now comes the fun part. You get to throw each of those goals on the chopping block and whack away. The intent is not to destroy those goals you worked so hard last week to set, but rather to chop them up into manageable pieces. You wouldn’t think of putting an entire tree trunk in the fireplace all at once. Neither should you think of doing that with your goals. You have to […]

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