Once you’ve been working towards your life goals for a while, it becomes time to review your results and refocus on your goals. As you review your results, ask yourself: Are you achieving the results that you wanted? Are things headed in the right direction? Most people skip this step Taking some time to review […]
How to Follow Through: Stop Procrastinating, Stay Motivated, & Get Things Done
We all have goals that we want to achieve. In this post, I’ll consider some of the major problems that stop us from achieving our goals. Planning One common problem is the lack of a plan. Sometimes we’re so excited about our goal that we start doing the work without carefully considering what specific […]
Inspirations: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
My “Inspirations” series has considered a number of instances where one creative work was inspired by another creative work; but I recently came across a fascinating instance where a well-known creative work was apparently based on previous creative work by the same author. The author was Douglas Adams, best known for his bestselling comic […]
William Blake: Never Give Up
William Blake was a quarrelsome troublemaker: a self-published author who was not well-liked in his own time. William Blake is now a world-famous poet, best remembered for “The Tyger” (“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night”) and other colorful children’s poems from his illustrated collection, “Songs of Innocence and of […]
Emily Dickinson: Never Give Up
Emily Dickinson was unpublished and virtually unknown in her own lifetime.* Like many modern introverts, Dickinson was most comfortable communicating through the medium of the written word. The famous recluse was a frequent correspondent, and sent many letters to her friends, often including poems with her communications. Most of Dickinson’s best-known poems are from her […]
Sir Thomas Malory: Never Give Up
Don’t give up! Imprisoned for life, Sir Thomas Malory reframed an existing story. In the process, he created a timeless classic. After his death, Malory’s retelling of the tales of King Arthur was among the first books ever printed, when Caxton got a printing press. Malory’s works have come down through the ages and are […]
