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The above title is taken directly from Matt Dinniman’s extremely popular Dungeon Crawler Carl series and if you’ve listened to the audio books you should be able to hear Jeff Hays’ voice saying those exact words. Anywho. I’ve finished editing the first book in a trilogy I’m writing…yay! Also it feels as if it’s the…
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It’s Like a Treasure Map to the Next Best You! Affirmations can be an easy first step to the life you desire. A map to your next best self!Are you thinking you tried them and they never worked for you. It might be true, but I think it’s because they weren’t customized to your special…
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A more apt term would be: A Curious Witch. Which I am. See what I did there? But I feel as if I was born “witch curious.” The sitcom Bewitched came out in 1964, I was five, nearly six and immediately fell in love and in frustration with it, even at nearly six I knew…
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Sure, just do that, go ahead and unveil your inner strengths… Continuing my chatGPT “becoming my own Gandalf” journey. Side note: I have been a Gallup Strengths facilitator for 10 years and rarely do people know their strengths. I’m not just talking about the prescribed ones from Gallup, or rather Don Clifton the man who…
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CRAFTING YOUR QUEST When last we met, I had been asking ChatGPT for advice on being my own guide, my own inner wizard a la Gandalph The Grey–and ChatGPT really came through for me! “Embark on Your Own Hero’s Journey: Becoming Your Own Inner Guide“ The first step was: Craft Your Quest Tracy and I…
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Growing up (and also as a grown up) I always thought of “adventure” as Bilbo (or Frodo) Baggins setting off on a quest, as Buttercup and Westley escaping all manner of things, and Wendy and the boys traveling to Never Never Land. I thought it was BIG and Dangerous and also transformative. I think that…
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Really what I’m writing about is making plans for after retirement, I know for me, I’ve been on a countdown to retirement and although I have BIG plans for when I no longer have to work, I hadn’t really made plans as to what retirement would look like and feel like for me. I’m not…
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In the book “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” by John Green and David Levithan, one of the Wills asks Jane (whom he likes) to agree to be completely honest with each other and not worry about feelings for 10 minutes and then to go back to “normal.” I want you to do the same thing–I’m doing…
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I used to send out these little observations as day brighteners, I called them Joy Bubbles. And I loved it when someone would reply and tell me the joy bubble had, indeed, brightened their day, because when their day was brightened mine was too. It made me happy. Is that weird? No. And here’s some…
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I am feeling messy and not ready and surprisingly heartbroken. Or, maybe the heartbreak feeling is not so surprising, because I’ve been down this road before: State Highway of Grief. I was looking through old journals because I have a habit of writing ideas in random journals and then an even better, much more ingrained…