By Carol Grannick on February 25, 2010
This morning as I savored my organic, fair-trade coffee from Costco, I leafed through my Cook’s Garden catalogue, and dreams of spring and summer rushed in.
Now, I’ve gotten much better about living in the present, and have tried to maximize my experience of winter by enjoying the inside life, and not having a tantrum when [...]
Posted in Rethinking Writing Obstacles | Tagged dreaming, writing dreams
By Carol Grannick on February 23, 2010
What I’m saying is this: if you want to become more resilient, you’ll have to work hard at it. You have to teach your brain to think differently in order to become more resilient, more “irrepressible”.
But it does take hold. Even if you hit periods of difficulty during which have to work harder than usual at creating positive emotions.
Posted in Lessons From Life | Tagged learned optimism
By Carol Grannick on February 17, 2010
Hey, I’ve been getting some private email questions about “positivity” and one of the crucial tools for changing negative thinking to positive – learning to dispute negative thinking. “Do you think people should be happy all the time?” is the gist of many of the questions (which I have permission to post).
Here’s a little quiz [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged positivity
By Carol Grannick on February 15, 2010
If you’ve looked at the first and second installments of my series on writers’ jealousy, you’ll recall that I encouraged you to stay calm about the experience of jealousy, and to reconnect with your ethical “core” values and beliefs so that you can behave well, even if you’re feeling jealous.
Those learned or natural behaviors will [...]
Posted in Rethinking Writing Obstacles | Tagged jealousy, writers' jealousy
By Carol Grannick on February 8, 2010
The first post in my series on how to handle jealousy with positivity encourages you to accept the feeling as natural and normal. For some of you, that will help jealousy pass.
For others of you, the feeling will stay uncomfortable and inconvenient, putting a roadblock in the way of your own writing.
You may have noticed [...]
Posted in Rethinking Writing Obstacles | Tagged jealousy, writers' jealousy
By Carol Grannick on February 2, 2010
Jealousy propels us into negativity and drains energy, productivity and creativity. Jealousy focuses our energy on who we aren’t or can’t be, and inhibits us from being and becoming the writers we are and can be.
Posted in Rethinking Writing Obstacles | Tagged jealousy, writers' jealousy
