by Ira | Aug 2, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Really, really great therapy session today. Jillian helped me realize that my success comes not so much from the goals I set, but from demystifying the work itself that’s necessary to get there. Which is to say: focusing on the goal or the outcome doesn’t help me....
by Ira | Aug 1, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
I just crunched numbers on what it would take me to write (and rewrite) a book in two months, which is still twice as long as some people I know can do… It scares me. I think it would take me three hours a day, consistently, for 40 work days to do it. But,...
by Ira | Jul 31, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
All this difficult can become easy. The first word I thought of was ‘hard,’ but that’s not quite right. The opposite of ‘hard’ is ‘soft’ 😛 But ‘hard’ is what I was thinking of, in the sense of writing is hard. Doing pushups is hard. Working from home is hard. Until...
by Ira | Jul 30, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
There was an EARTHQUAKE last night. Four-thirty in the morning, something like that. Woke us both up, and I ran and grabbed Cooper since Coco was already on the bed next to Liz if we had to run for it. We didn’t. It was over in a second. Not really that bad after the...
by Ira | Jul 29, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Do you ever have those days where you just wake up grumpy? I did this morning. For no real reason, except that I was a little behind on my work, and a little behind on my writing. Otherwise, I think it was just a mood I woke up with. Sometimes those days are hard. Not...
by Ira | Jul 28, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
The writing was better today. Thank god. I needed a better day. It’s been rough since the end of last week. But, it was better today. I love writing. I really do. That’s where I’m at with my writing tonight. I love it. I love the exploring and the editing and the...
