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How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star

How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 214 *** “What you want is to be able to look at your goal, what you’ve written down,...
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How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star

How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 214 *** “What you want is to be able to look at your goal, what you’ve written down,...
The post How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/07/20/how-to-self-coach-toward-your-writing-north-star

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How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star

How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 214 *** “What you want is to be able to look at your goal, what you’ve written down,...
The post How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/07/20/how-to-self-coach-toward-your-writing-north-star

#HOWTOWRITETHEFUTUREPODCAST #accomplishment #BethBarany #communication #conflict

How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star

How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 214 *** “What you want is to be able to look at your goal, what you’ve written down,...
The post How to Self-Coach Toward Your Writing North Star appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/07/20/how-to-self-coach-toward-your-writing-north-star

#HOWTOWRITETHEFUTUREPODCAST #accomplishment #BethBarany #communication #conflict

Today I finally did something I've been meaning to do for over a decade, kept saying I was going to do it, but today it finally got done. I put in an application for my very first passport. I should have it in hand in 4 to 6 weeks. If nothing else, I can now go to Canada again if I wish to. It will also give me more travel mobility. So today I'm quite proud of myself. #Accomplishment

Today I finally did something I've been meaning to do for over a decade, kept saying I was going to do it, but today it finally got done. I put in an application for my very first passport. I should have it in hand in 4 to 6 weeks. If nothing else, I can now go to Canada again if I wish to. It will also give me more travel mobility. So today I'm quite proud of myself. #Accomplishment

Today I finally did something I've been meaning to do for over a decade, kept saying I was going to do it, but today it finally got done. I put in an application for my very first passport. I should have it in hand in 4 to 6 weeks. If nothing else, I can now go to Canada again if I wish to. It will also give me more travel mobility. So today I'm quite proud of myself. #Accomplishment

Today I finally did something I've been meaning to do for over a decade, kept saying I was going to do it, but today it finally got done. I put in an application for my very first passport. I should have it in hand in 4 to 6 weeks. If nothing else, I can now go to Canada again if I wish to. It will also give me more travel mobility. So today I'm quite proud of myself. #Accomplishment

Today I finally did something I've been meaning to do for over a decade, kept saying I was going to do it, but today it finally got done. I put in an application for my very first passport. I should have it in hand in 4 to 6 weeks. If nothing else, I can now go to Canada again if I wish to. It will also give me more travel mobility. So today I'm quite proud of myself. #Accomplishment

After much hard work, my husband, the author, now has four books available for sale on Amazon! What an achievement! #author #authors #writing #writings #book #books #library #libraries #amazon #amazonshopping #buyingbooks #fantasy #sodaandthesinistersnatch #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #wetheriffed #chuckvincent #thewritinglife #accomplishment #accomplished #literature #modernliterature #pennsylvaniaauthor

After much hard work, my husband, the author, now has four books available for sale on Amazon! What an achievement! #author #authors #writing #writings #book #books #library #libraries #amazon #amazonshopping #buyingbooks #fantasy #sodaandthesinistersnatch #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #wetheriffed #chuckvincent #thewritinglife #accomplishment #accomplished #literature #modernliterature #pennsylvaniaauthor

After much hard work, my husband, the author, now has four books available for sale on Amazon! What an achievement! #author #authors #writing #writings #book #books #library #libraries #amazon #amazonshopping #buyingbooks #fantasy #sodaandthesinistersnatch #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #wetheriffed #chuckvincent #thewritinglife #accomplishment #accomplished #literature #modernliterature #pennsylvaniaauthor

After much hard work, my husband, the author, now has four books available for sale on Amazon! What an achievement! #author #authors #writing #writings #book #books #library #libraries #amazon #amazonshopping #buyingbooks #fantasy #sodaandthesinistersnatch #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #wetheriffed #chuckvincent #thewritinglife #accomplishment #accomplished #literature #modernliterature #pennsylvaniaauthor

After much hard work, my husband, the author, now has four books available for sale on Amazon! What an achievement! #author #authors #writing #writings #book #books #library #libraries #amazon #amazonshopping #buyingbooks #fantasy #sodaandthesinistersnatch #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #wetheriffed #chuckvincent #thewritinglife #accomplishment #accomplished #literature #modernliterature #pennsylvaniaauthor

All That I Might, a poem

Morning comes.
Here i lie,
To myself,
About my day.

I'll get things done,
I have a plan.
To achieve,
What i may.

But I'm pretty clear,
With honesty,
I wont do
All that i plan.

Ill end my day,
Wishing hard
That i had
Taken command.

Perhaps i will
Pretend to
Go back in time
And do it right.

Start again 
Right now, here,
Get up. Achieve
All that I might.

All That I Might, a poem

Morning comes.
Here i lie,
To myself,
About my day.

I'll get things done,
I have a plan.
To achieve,
What i may.

But I'm pretty clear,
With honesty,
I wont do
All that i plan.

Ill end my day,
Wishing hard
That i had
Taken command.

Perhaps i will
Pretend to
Go back in time
And do it right.

Start again 
Right now, here,
Get up. Achieve
All that I might.

A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
 
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
 
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
 
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
 
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
 
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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What Did I Accomplish Today?

What is the 
measure 
of a 
good day?

Accomplishment 
can be a strange 
idol. 
It promises 
peace 
after one more 
task, 
one more sermon, 
one more song, 
one more post, 
one more 
finished 
thing. 

But then 
the day 
ends, 
and my soul 
still has to 
live 
with itself.

Here in the 
twilight, 
rather than 
asking
what I have 
done,
a better 
measure 
might be:

Did I become 
more free today?

Did I become 
less bitter?

Did I tell 
the truth?

Did I release 
what was 
not mine 
to carry?

Did I move 
even slightly 
toward 
love?

A clear mind 
and 
a better heart 
may be 
holier than 
a completed 
checklist.

So maybe 
my evening prayer 
is simply this:

Lord,
I release the day.
I release what I finished
and what I failed to finish.
Clear my mind.
Soften my heart.
Let me sleep as one who is loved,
not as one who must prove his worth.
Amen

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something: the strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part 2 (1825)

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something: the strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part 2 (1825)

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something: the strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part 2 (1825)

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something: the strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part 2 (1825)

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something: the strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part 2 (1825)

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #mishnah #accomplishment #aspiration #completion #duty #endeavor #finish #ideal #keeptrying #labor #obligation #quest #success #task #work

How much household stuff can you move across 8 states, 1600+ miles, in a Chevy Sonic? 🚗

A lot as my wife and I established in Nov. 2020 at the height of COVID. 🗓️ #throwback

Anyway, sad to say goodbye to that car today. 🎁 #donation

#tbt #throwbackThursday #accomplishment

How much household stuff can you move across 8 states, 1600+ miles, in a Chevy Sonic? 🚗

A lot as my wife and I established in Nov. 2020 at the height of COVID. 🗓️ #throwback

Anyway, sad to say goodbye to that car today. 🎁 #donation

#tbt #throwbackThursday #accomplishment

How much household stuff can you move across 8 states, 1600+ miles, in a Chevy Sonic? 🚗

A lot as my wife and I established in Nov. 2020 at the height of COVID. 🗓️ #throwback

Anyway, sad to say goodbye to that car today. 🎁 #donation

#tbt #throwbackThursday #accomplishment

How much household stuff can you move across 8 states, 1600+ miles, in a Chevy Sonic? 🚗

A lot as my wife and I established in Nov. 2020 at the height of COVID. 🗓️ #throwback

Anyway, sad to say goodbye to that car today. 🎁 #donation

#tbt #throwbackThursday #accomplishment

How much household stuff can you move across 8 states, 1600+ miles, in a Chevy Sonic? 🚗

A lot as my wife and I established in Nov. 2020 at the height of COVID. 🗓️ #throwback

Anyway, sad to say goodbye to that car today. 🎁 #donation

#tbt #throwbackThursday #accomplishment

Folks like to connect sentiments with colours. They say, #green is the #colour of #hope. I find green and #blue elevating and inspiring. This #door and building remind me that a home is for #comfort and #safety. Inspiration from old fortifications -> safety. Grand spaces feel intimidating. When owned, one will defend out of #fear, not #pride, nor from a sense of #accomplishment. Small homes please with #comfort & a sense of #belonging.
#twoone #Barcelona #Spain

Folks like to connect sentiments with colours. They say, #green is the #colour of #hope. I find green and #blue elevating and inspiring. This #door and building remind me that a home is for #comfort and #safety. Inspiration from old fortifications -> safety. Grand spaces feel intimidating. When owned, one will defend out of #fear, not #pride, nor from a sense of #accomplishment. Small homes please with #comfort & a sense of #belonging.
#twoone #Barcelona #Spain

Folks like to connect sentiments with colours. They say, #green is the #colour of #hope. I find green and #blue elevating and inspiring. This #door and building remind me that a home is for #comfort and #safety. Inspiration from old fortifications -> safety. Grand spaces feel intimidating. When owned, one will defend out of #fear, not #pride, nor from a sense of #accomplishment. Small homes please with #comfort & a sense of #belonging.
#twoone #Barcelona #Spain

Folks like to connect sentiments with colours. They say, #green is the #colour of #hope. I find green and #blue elevating and inspiring. This #door and building remind me that a home is for #comfort and #safety. Inspiration from old fortifications -> safety. Grand spaces feel intimidating. When owned, one will defend out of #fear, not #pride, nor from a sense of #accomplishment. Small homes please with #comfort & a sense of #belonging.
#twoone #Barcelona #Spain

Folks like to connect sentiments with colours. They say, #green is the #colour of #hope. I find green and #blue elevating and inspiring. This #door and building remind me that a home is for #comfort and #safety. Inspiration from old fortifications -> safety. Grand spaces feel intimidating. When owned, one will defend out of #fear, not #pride, nor from a sense of #accomplishment. Small homes please with #comfort & a sense of #belonging.
#twoone #Barcelona #Spain

Man, did #India smoke #NewZealand in the T20 World Cup final. 😲🏏🏆🇮🇳

Plus, the first team to win the cup:
- at home
- back-to-back
- three times

And Bumrah's bowling: 4/15 in 4 overs? In a T20? Finals no less? That's test match figures. Just unreal.

#Cricket #sports #T20 #accomplishment #WorldCup

Man, did #India smoke #NewZealand in the T20 World Cup final. 😲🏏🏆🇮🇳

Plus, the first team to win the cup:
- at home
- back-to-back
- three times

And Bumrah's bowling: 4/15 in 4 overs? In a T20? Finals no less? That's test match figures. Just unreal.

#Cricket #sports #T20 #accomplishment #WorldCup

Man, did #India smoke #NewZealand in the T20 World Cup final. 😲🏏🏆🇮🇳

Plus, the first team to win the cup:
- at home
- back-to-back
- three times

And Bumrah's bowling: 4/15 in 4 overs? In a T20? Finals no less? That's test match figures. Just unreal.

#Cricket #sports #T20 #accomplishment #WorldCup

Man, did #India smoke #NewZealand in the T20 World Cup final. 😲🏏🏆🇮🇳

Plus, the first team to win the cup:
- at home
- back-to-back
- three times

And Bumrah's bowling: 4/15 in 4 overs? In a T20? Finals no less? That's test match figures. Just unreal.

#Cricket #sports #T20 #accomplishment #WorldCup

Man, did #India smoke #NewZealand in the T20 World Cup final. 😲🏏🏆🇮🇳

Plus, the first team to win the cup:
- at home
- back-to-back
- three times

And Bumrah's bowling: 4/15 in 4 overs? In a T20? Finals no less? That's test match figures. Just unreal.

#Cricket #sports #T20 #accomplishment #WorldCup

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure. I take the author, with whose career I am best acquainted; and it is true he works in a rebellious material, and that the act of writing is cramped and trying both to the eyes and the temper; but remark him in his study, when matter crowds upon him and words are not wanting — in what a continual series of small successes time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving mountains, he marshals his petty characters; with what pleasures, both of the ear and eye, he sees his airy structure growing on the page; and how he labours in a craft to which the whole material of his life is tributary, and which opens a door to all his tastes, his loves, his hatreds, and his convictions, so that what he writes is only what he longed to utter. He may have enjoyed many things in this big, tragic playground of the world; but what shall he have enjoyed more fully than a morning of successful work? Suppose it ill paid: the wonder is it should be paid at all. Other men pay, and pay dearly, for pleasures less desirable.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #accomplishment #art #artist #author #creativity #creator #enjoyment #hardwork #inthezone #pleasure #satisfaction #writer #writing

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure. I take the author, with whose career I am best acquainted; and it is true he works in a rebellious material, and that the act of writing is cramped and trying both to the eyes and the temper; but remark him in his study, when matter crowds upon him and words are not wanting — in what a continual series of small successes time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving mountains, he marshals his petty characters; with what pleasures, both of the ear and eye, he sees his airy structure growing on the page; and how he labours in a craft to which the whole material of his life is tributary, and which opens a door to all his tastes, his loves, his hatreds, and his convictions, so that what he writes is only what he longed to utter. He may have enjoyed many things in this big, tragic playground of the world; but what shall he have enjoyed more fully than a morning of successful work? Suppose it ill paid: the wonder is it should be paid at all. Other men pay, and pay dearly, for pleasures less desirable.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure. I take the author, with whose career I am best acquainted; and it is true he works in a rebellious material, and that the act of writing is cramped and trying both to the eyes and the temper; but remark him in his study, when matter crowds upon him and words are not wanting — in what a continual series of small successes time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving mountains, he marshals his petty characters; with what pleasures, both of the ear and eye, he sees his airy structure growing on the page; and how he labours in a craft to which the whole material of his life is tributary, and which opens a door to all his tastes, his loves, his hatreds, and his convictions, so that what he writes is only what he longed to utter. He may have enjoyed many things in this big, tragic playground of the world; but what shall he have enjoyed more fully than a morning of successful work? Suppose it ill paid: the wonder is it should be paid at all. Other men pay, and pay dearly, for pleasures less desirable.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

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