Great Time Management Advice

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I'm supposed to be working (law practice work) right now and I don't usually post on Fridays, but I just read a really helpful and well written post on time management that I wanted to share. Janalyn Voigt is a writer whose blog I enjoy. This particular post is addressed to writers who want to find more time to write, but the principles she covers will help anyone who needs to find a little more time in her day.

Check it out, subscribe to Janalyn's blog, and . . . enjoy your weekend!

The link again: Time Management for Writers

What's your best tip for making the most of the 24 hours you have each day?

Laura
Greenville, Texas
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What Have You Done . . . ?

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Recently I read an inspiring blog post (find it here) that reminded me of how fleeting life is, and how easily I let my limited time on earth get consumed with the trivial. Every day, every moment, we have a choice:

waste time, or use it for something that matters

The “something that matters” can be something that matters to the world or just something that matters to you. 

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The fact is, each of us has 24 hours–and only 24 hours–in each day. We choose (we really do) how to fill those 24 hours. Whether we fill them with a job–meaningful or otherwise–or television or shopping or surfing the ‘net or . . . we make that choice. If we reach the end of our life without having accomplished our dreams, that will have been our choice. 

I can't achieve my dream today. But I can do something, take some tiny little step, toward achieving it. And if I do, then I'm at least that tiny bit closer to seeing my dream come true.

I encourage you to read the post at Seekerville. It's written specifically to writers, but its truths apply to you no matter what your dreams might be. 

After reading it and thinking about it a bit, please come back here and share with us your answer to this question from that post:

What have you done today to make your dreams come true?


Laura
Greenville, Texas
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The Writer’s 12 Step Program

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Stanley D. Williams, Ph.D., author of The Moral Premise, a brilliant resource for novelists and screenwriters, has a great blog in which he analyzes movies to evaluate their moral premise. Earlier this year he posted a description of his 12-Step Program for struggling writers. The first step:

 I admit that I am powerless to write like I should–that my creative life has become desolate and unmanageable through disuse.

That's me. As I write this post, I'm struggling with discouragement at my inability to get the images in my mind captured in words. But Step 2 in Dr. Williams' list:

I believe that a power greater than myself can restore me to sanity, and get my quota of words written each and every day.

I believe. Lord, help my unbelief.

My writer friends will want to check out the full list by clicking on this link: The Moral Premise Blog: The Writer's 12 Steps to Getting It Done. Shall we form an accountability group around these steps?

What do you need encouragement about this week?


Laura
Greenville, Texas
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