Goal setting

Gretchen Rubin’s bestselling book ‘The Happiness Project’ describes her year-long happiness project. She took an approach inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s Virtues Chart where she identified areas of her life she wanted to work on and set concrete and measurable happiness-boosting resolutions. These were compiled into a chart, where she scored herself every day. For example… read more

As much as we complain about deadlines, they have an important role in motivating us. When I asked writers what inspired them to keep writing, the top response was deadlines with a huge 75% response. Most of the writers I know don’t have the luxury of being able to write full time - instead they… read more