The Imposter Syndrome
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
Checking Boxes
I took Seth Godin's altMBA class. It had been on my list since 2017! Yay. I finally took it. Check. Photo by Ivan Bertolazzi on Pexels.com I wanted a one-and-done. I wanted the magic ticket from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The golden ring on the Merry Go Round. You’d think I was old enough to know that checking a box and doing the work are two different things. I checked the box. The checked box stares at me. I stare back. We know one of us will lose.“I have to go on to the next box,” I say.The...
Villains
Novelists Need to Know! Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com What is a villain, anyway? What do you think of when you hear the word villain? It's the 'bad guy.' Okay. Yes, but it's more than a bad guy. Villains are without remorse. They. Are. Evil. They have no moral compass. No sense of right and wrong. They are motivated by things we cannot fathom, but we know a villain when we see one. Most of the time. The Literary Terms site indicates that the villain "comes up with plots to somehow cause harm or ruin." There is no good side...
Did I Remember?
Did I remember to bring … the luggage? the tickets? the kids? Was I supposed to?
A Book Review
The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved "The Fortune Teller." I won't tell you how it ends, but I was hooked from the first page. I liked the main character, Semele, because she was almost as much in the dark as we were, which made her discovery all the more satisfying. I was intrigued by the Tarot cards, impressed by the research, and enthralled by the mystical feel on each page. There was a tinge of foreboding, as we don't find out the identity of the enigmatic "VS" person until almost the end,...
Moderation
"Nobody does moderation well."--Greg McKeown (@GregoryMcKeown) author of "Essentialism, the Disciplined Pursuit of Less" CHERRY PIE by Werner22brigitte at Pixabay When moderation doesn't work. Author, speaker Greg McKeown revealed during a Tim Ferriss Show that he gave up sugar for a year. It was reportedly easier than cutting back, a.k.a. moderation. The folks at Alcoholics Anonymous know moderation doesn't work. An alcoholic cannot 'pick up.' Not even once, or they're back to day one. A newcomer. AA has been around since 1935 and it has worked for a lot of people. 2. Moderation takes discipline. Seems crazy in a way, but sometimes it's...