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Mastery (Page 2)

On how I spend my weekends

2014-03-11
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: March 11, 2014
In: Making a Creative Life, Mastery, Mindfulness

Recently I participated in a quantum jump, a kind of guided-meditation-self-hypnosis thingy that is supposed to yield a greater understanding of my higher self, feelings of peace and harmony, and, I don’t know, the ability to manifest things I want. Like that. I don’t actually believe in it. Fortunately, theContinue Reading

On what to do when you get there

2014-03-04
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: March 4, 2014
In: Making a Creative Life, Mastery

“No horizon perceived by human eyes is ever the shore, because beyond that horizon is another.” —Flaubert If you’re like me, you’re accustomed to setting goals and achieving them, and you know all the rules, that your goals have to be Specific, and Measurable, and Achievable, and Relevant, and Timed,Continue Reading

On doing the work, revisited

2014-03-03
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: March 3, 2014
In: Making a Creative Life, Mastery

I am trying to find the language I want to use to talk about doing the work in such a way that you get better and better at it. By that I don’t mean you find shortcuts and keyboard macros. I mean you learn to tell the story in aContinue Reading

Dim Mak Death Touch in Ten Easy Steps

2014-02-18
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: February 18, 2014
In: Dojo Wisdom for Writers, Making a Creative Life, Mastery

I always swore that one day I would write a book called Dim Mak Death Touch in Ten Easy Steps, and I would totally cash in on all the misconceptions people have about the martial arts. Sadly, I have personal standards for my behavior, and though I keep them quiteContinue Reading

On my low-tech life, part 2

2013-09-09
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: September 9, 2013
In: Making a Creative Life, Mastery, The Writing Craft, Uncategorized

A few people who read my post on how I carry a pocket watch sent me gentle notes letting me know that my laptop almost certainly showed the time if I would just look there in the lower right hand corner, and I could use that. And while I doContinue Reading

On what I learned from wind chimes

2013-08-23
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: August 23, 2013
In: Making a Creative Life, Mastery, Mindfulness, The Writing Craft

These are wind chimes. I hate wind chimes. All wind chimes, not just these particular wind chimes. In fact I don’t know these wind chimes personally; I just got the picture from one of those free stock photo websites (see photo credit below! I would hate for the stock photographyContinue Reading

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