Thanks for this reminder and motivation to MAKE time to do what you love!

Sammy

Great question, about self-sabotage. I started making suggestions here, then realized I was writing a whole article! So, I turned it into an article Here’s the link:

4 Ways to Stop Self-Sabotage and Self-Defeat

I hope it helps,

Laurie
.-= Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen´s last blog post..8 Best Ways to Lose Weight – Healthy Eating Tips =-.

My de-motivating problems is surrounding myself with blocked, negative people. They totally drain me and then I have no energy to do what I love. But, I do this all the time.

How do I stop sabotaging myself?

Thanks,
Janice

I’m curious how you’ll feel about going back to coaching in the fall! Will you be eager to get back, or reluctant because of your summer of writing? I guess only time will tell..

I know other readers are reading this…if you feel inclined to jump in with any thoughts on choosing specific things in life to focus on — and letting other things go — please feel free! I welcome your thoughts.

For me, I think the freelance writing will have to go — I’ll just have to turn down assignments. That’s tough to wrap my mind around because I worked so hard to get to this point, and after this book is written I may have to start freelancing from “scratch.”

But, I don’t have a contract yet so there’s no point in worrying about it too much yet…

Thanks for being here, Gini!

Laurie
.-= Laurie PK´s last blog post..5 Tips for Managing Medical Debt =-.

Yet as you said, awarness is about truth, so if blogging is where your heart is, you will know that because you’ll feel a strong yes inside of you. If writing books is where your heart is you will feel the yes there. If it is both, well, you know how it works. I do find though it is hard to spread my energy and focus on too many things. That is why I have to take a break this summer from coaching so I can focus more on writing. With both of my books, I had to take time away from clients then too.

You seem good at multitasking and scheduling though so I’m sure you can do both – how does it feel to make a commitment to both?
.-= Gini Grey´s last blog post..Boundaries =-.

“Stop talking and start doing” — yes, yes, yes! I gotta go check out your blog, Deborah

Gini, does awareness always work that way — naming things, seeing through them, and then moving past them?

Maybe part of becoming aware of something is the realization that you don’t WANT to move past it….like, maybe my awareness that I use my blogs to procrastinate will make me realize where my heart really lies. Blogging, not writing books.

(But that’s not the truth for me — I DO want to write books. I just want to blog, too!)

Hmmm…but now that I’m aware of what I’m doing, I do feel a much stronger pull to write my sample chapters and get off my blog!

Laurie

There will be plenty of opportunities to complain when external factors that we have no control over enter into our lives. But in the meantime…set yourself up for success. Give yourself a leg up whenever you can with things you can control…drink water instead of a 4th cappucino, stop talking and start doing, and put up a fence to keep the dream-suckers, time-suckers and emotion-suckers out of your life!

With every excuse comes an option to do something.
.-= Deborah´s last blog post..Ouch…what was that?!? II Deborah =-.

Well, if writing blogs is a substitute for writing your books, now that you’ve named it, you’ll see through it and move past it – awareness is so helpful.
.-= Gini Grey´s last blog post..Boundaries =-.

“Play with your blogs so you don’t have to write the chapters the publisher is waiting for. Convince yourself that your blogs are more important as writing your books.”

Instead of researching my women who weren’t well-behaved for my sample chapters, I decided to upgrade my See Jane Soar blog. Isn’t it beautiful?

Honestly, I’m beginning to wonder if my blogs are a substitute for writing my books…