Shawndra Holmberg's Blog: The Organized Pen

As a writer or creative, you need breaks to think, relax, play, putter, read, and even work. As winter recedes, your outside areas become fair game for these activities.

4 quick changes that you can support reasonable portion sizes:

If you want to write "someday" or be more creative, these are 5 things to add to your schedule and 4 things to remove.

It's the small, everyday things in my life that are making me smile this month. Here are the 3 everyday organizing tools that are making my life easier.

My thoughts on Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life by Joshua Becker.

Many times our goals and resolutions are established without taking into account the rest of our lives, responsibilities and needs. What do you want to KEEP?  What are you ready to LET GO of this next year? What would you like to BEGIN?

Change is what happens outside of us. Our environment changes, our circumstances change and, of course, our choices change. Transition is what happens within us. Sometimes we get stuck and we don’t make the transition.

Quick Organizing Actions You Can Complete in 15 Minutes or Less

If you aren’t getting enough sleep, you probably don’t have enough energy to exercise and you’re probably more at risk for negative thinking

Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin is about building habits, so of course it has insights you can use to build your writing habit. Use this book to choose, build, and maintain the right habit for you.

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Writer, Know Thyself

Strategies for Building Your Writing Habit

More Strategies to Unlock Your Writing Productivity

Is This Book for Writers?

Resource Roundup

Writer, Know Thyself

If you picked up Better Than Before hoping to find the one, tru...