by Marissa Bracke |
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” —Walter Elliott P.S. In case you're wondering, WoW = Words of Wisdom 🙂
by Marissa Bracke |
If you're trying to establish or maintain a habit, here's a quick rule of thumb: Do not do for three days what you don't want to do forever. (Or, if you prefer, do not skip for three days straight what you want to do forever.) For example, if your goal is to write...
by Marissa Bracke |
If something is important enough to make you feel harried, stressed, anxious, distracted, unsettled (etc. etc.), shouldn't it also be important enough for you to make time and space to properly act on it? The logical answer is yes, but part of what keeps us caught in...
by Marissa Bracke |
It's so easy to lose The Now. What happened yesterday leaves us feeling behind, so we spend time catching up to a goal we project into tomorrow. Or we congratulate ourselves over yesterday's progress until we forget that today even matters. We fret over tomorrow....
by Marissa Bracke |
When we feel busy, our reaction is often to hurry. We have a lot to do, so we try to speed up accordingly. We try to move faster, think quicker, get stuff done more rapidly. Interestingly, the converse is true too: when we hurry, we tend to feel busy. We're running...