Sunday morning breakfast.
Fresh spinach from my patio garden with poached eggs and homemade bread topped with avocado and vegemite.
In spite of all the challenges of 2020 I hope everyone finds their tiny reason to still smile ❤️ 
Tag: motivation
Positive Thought 12/1/2019
Today’s positive…watching the sun setting after a productive and very hot Saturday catching up on domestics, editing a friend’s short story and stocking my fridge with delicious fresh food. Nothing satisfies more than feeling a sense of ‘having achieved’.
Positive Thought 15/12/2018
Today’s positive…a fun afternoon of editing and critiquing with my writers group. Love how we write such diverse genres yet we all enjoy everyone’s work.
Positive Thought 15/11/2018
Today’s positive…feeling quite good about where I’m at. Sometimes all it takes is acceptance to lift the cloud and allow you to move on with a positive mind.
Lonely
Don’t get stuck on the bench of loneliness
Reach out – reach up
Follow your passion on the tree of life
Positive Thought 30/6/2018
Today’s positive…..the encouragement, support and inspiration from our local writers meeting always leaves me on a high.
Positive Thought 22/3/2018
Its crazy busy at work; implementing and testing out new software system is often filled with frustration and long days.
Getting positive feedback this week on the data we can now provide to the business has been gratifying and encouraging.
Once again I am reminded of how little it takes sometimes to make someones day.
Positive Thought 9/1/2018
I woke up this morning knowing exactly what my positive thought for today would be.
Due to travel & jetlag …..
First full night’s sleep since 3/1/18!!!! I feel alive 😁😁😁
Positive Thoughts 2018
I have decided to participate in a Positive Thought Project for this year.
It basically entails writing down one good thing that happened each day and add it to a large jar. By the end of the year you will have 365 positive things to remind you of the great year you have had.
As I was overseas for Xmas/NY, and only this weekend returned home to Sydney, I caught up on my note writing today.
Below are my first seven notes. I plan to upload my notes daily on here to keep me on track.
1/1/18 Chilling with my brother Ole and his wife Diana nursing our NY hangovers
2/1/18 Afternoon tea with my sister Elna in Herning
3/1/18 Receiving a call from my sister telling me she loves me
4/1/18 Enjoying a delicious huge coffee at Doha airport
5/1/18 Sleeping in my own bed
6/1/18 My daughter Sonja coming to visit
7/1/18 Catching up with my good friend Pam
What did you do today that made you feel good?
Inspired by Al & Val
Feeling totally inspired and motivated after listening to yet another amazing So You Want To Be A Writer podcast by Valerie Khoo and Alison Tait.
Having just finished writing my virgin draft of my very first novel I am feeling exhilarated and dreaming of where this might all go. At the same time, I am wondering what to do next and whether what I have written is just total dribble or something worthwhile. I guess I am going through the usual self-doubt mainly because I am venturing into unknown territory.
So after listening to episode 215 of SYWTBW I must put pen to paper and say thank you to Val and Al for putting together such an inspirational podcast. I LOVED listening to their interview with new up and coming author Sarah Bailey.
Sarah described in detail the steps she went through from finishing her first novel and submitting to agents. The agony of having to be advised to re-edit her baby, change the writing and characters, is so relatable. I know I will need to edit my first draft and fully expect to change parts of the story, but also know it will be hard to be told that some parts of my many hours slaved over novel is just not as good as it could be. We all love our babies, and it was reassuring to hear Sarah tell us she fully accepted the end result in fact was much better than her first draft.
Sarah’s success of being published not only in Australia but now overseas, all while working full time, was motivational in so many ways. It shows that dreams do come true and Sarah’s down to earth personality made me believe it can happen to any of us.
Listening to good podcasts and being part of writers groups both online and in real life is essential to becoming/being a good writer. At least I find it inspires me and I think many feel the same way.
Thank you, Al and Val, for keeping our dreams alive.
Do yourself a favor and take a listen to their podcasts by following link below
https://www.writerscentre.com.au/category/podcasts/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer-podcast/
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