discipline | discipline
Jun.03.2011
One of the hardest tasks an author faces is sitting down in a chair to face the blank page. There is no doubt that after yesterday's announcement that V. S. Naipaul said that no woman could equal him as a writer because of sentimentality and female tosh, the task of facing the blank page got a bit...
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Apr.06.2011
Discipline is one of the necessary tools to success in business and life. One of the organizations that's best in teaching self-discipline is the miitary. The following article contains techniques, based on the military's teachings, that can help any person build their self discipline.
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Apr.06.2011
The latest blog entry is a detail description on how to increase your self discipline. Discipline is a very handy tool in the game of life, and to have success in life we need to know how to be disciplined and accomplish tasks.
http://masscasualties.com/2011/04/how-to-build-your-self-...
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Dec.30.2010
I've been working on my second novel—or maybe my third; I have a first draft of a book finished, but the one I've been working on more often lately is a new story. At heart I think I'm avoiding the revision of the second book, but at the same time I also don't want to lose the thread of this one....
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Dec.29.2010
A mantra is a sound, syllable, or group of words which, when recited, are regarded as capable of producing spiritual transformation (or so says Wiki). Actually, mantra is a word common in the eastern world and is itself made up of two words: man meaning "mind," and tra meaning "...
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Mar.01.2010
Meet multiple award-winning nurse poet Cortney Davis. Also the poetry editor for Alimentum literary journal, Cortney has authored Leopold's Maneuvers and a number of poetry books. Her latest book is a series of essays, entitled The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing.
An active and working...
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Feb.25.2010
“Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don’t tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.” ~ Jimmy Johnson
A few days ago, I had a conversation with my daughter’s preschool teacher. Her concern was that even if Morgan scores exceptionally well...
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Feb.19.2010
Meet writer Linda Merlino, awarded the Connecticut Press Club Runner-Up for Best Fiction of 2009 for her novel Belly of the Whale. Linda is a real working writer, as in a writer who has two novels under her belt and a third under way but still juggles other work, family and, well, life.
Now...
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Feb.11.2010
People who want to be artists/writers often say, “I don’t have any discipline.” We imagine discipline as a character trait we do or don’t have, just as we imagine that talent is something we’re somehow born with, rather than a set of abilities developed over time. Very often, what looks like “lack...
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Jan.11.2010
“My Work-?”
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” According to an article in Wikipedia, British historian and writer James Howell first shed light on Jack’s...
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