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Program Progress: Day 92
Member Since: 06/17/07
Last Login: 03/10/12
Viewed: 12156
Program in:
Program Progress: Day 92
Beatriz's Challenges:
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Beatriz's Participating:
| PFR Challenge |
| Having Fun Fine Tuning and Balancing our lives |
| Lets Bash that perverse nasty little inner Voice |
| 90 daily consecutive entries in "My Blog" |
Personal Interests:
Music:
Classical (Baroque, in particular but not only), jazz (Dave Brubeck), Toru Takemitsu, Kitaro, Pink Floyd, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Beatles, Joan Manuel Serrat, Pablo Milanes, Mercedes Sosa and many many more.
Books:
Tao Te King, Bagavad Gita, Stories of the Dervish by Idries Shah, The Conference of the Birds by Attar, Nietzsche, Novalis, Freud, Fritz Perls, and many more.
Favorite Places:
Tromso (Norway), The Highlands in Scotland, Edinburgh, Conway in Wales, Bath in England, Paris, Burgos, St. Domingo de Silos, Koln and Bonn (Germany), Prague, Bratislava, Maastricht, Cracow, Vienna, Malinalco (Mexico)
I Want To See:
Hobbies:
Activities:
Sports:
Hiking, I used to go caving in Mexico(going into caves and underground rivers). In England I only cycle and walk, do aerobics and yoga.
Movies:
Casablanca, all Kurosawa, Bunuel, some of Polanski (Macbeth, The Pianist), some of Spielberg (Schindler's List), Cinema Paradiso, The March of the Penguins, The Bear...
TV:
Heroes:
I Want To Meet:
Beatriz's Life List:
| I want to be who I really am. No fakes, no lies, no fears. |
| I want to get the PhD degree this year. |
comments
What chapter are you on?
Some are certainly harder than others; which one is giving you trouble? You're on day 48 though. That's fantastic! Keep rolling!
Chapter
Hi Tikki
It's the first chapter.
Beatriz
The Grind (later rewarded)
For me I think I have to take my eyes off the "goal" and look at the project from some other perspective. Like a long hike...if I'm too focused on "getting there" every step can seem like an eternity. So I might shift to "getting to that hill right there" or even feeling the sun or noticing types of flowers or...it might be time to take a small vacation, get a breather, stop the hike altogether for a short. I've been revived and things went much better after just a small walk or ice cream cone, a shower or call to a friend.
I might have to stick with it, so I'll focus on finishing just this paragraph, just this idea, or just this one page.
I know how the goal can seem to stretch farther and farther away. Since this is "only" chapter one, I wish you some new technique that works for you, to take your brain off that end page. Sometimes as we approach the end, we feel a lot more impatient. I might pretend I'm actually still twenty pages away.
One more possibility, you may have SAID what you want to say. The chapter may be done but you are still writing. At those times every word drags on because your message is spoken.
If it were easy there would be a lot more professors!
I wish for you methods for resting your brain, letting things unfold without impatience, making good progress without dragging yourself by the hair through a page. Novels can take ten and twenty years. Writers find lots of ways to stick with it, commit to it daily, and yet not wear themselves to a nub. You've got to get away from that desk, every day, for at least a little while.
And then perhaps you are done by now!?