motivation – Leslie Arambula

Trusting Myself in 2020

I learned a lot about myself last year, and I’m sharing it here with you in case it helps you move into the rest of 2020 feeling more confident and capable.

Forward Movement

Author Catherine Labadie provides insight on staying on schedule and focused on your goals.

Healing Through Writing and Reading

Guest blogger Britt Laux offers insight about the creative process and the process of healing.

How to Stay Motivated while Achieving your Goals

Guest blogger Shari Bethea shares tips and tricks to keep yourself motivated while trying to achieve your goals.

Resources for Writers

If you’re looking for Facebook groups, Twitter #s, podcasts and more that are dedicated to writers, I’ve started compiling a list here for your reference.

What I Learned About Myself in 2019

So much can happen in a year! But, how much do we stop and take note of before we move into the next year? Well, here I’m sharing my top lessons from 2019 and I’d love to hear about yours as well.

Catching Up During NaNo

Falling behind for you NaNoWriMo word count? Here are three ways that I catch up when I put myself behind schedule ever year

I’m a visual learner. I am the kind of person who used to be able to picture charts and images on a test from my notes. I didn’t learn how to use that to my advantage until well into my college career, though. Now, I use visuals to get inspiration whenever I need a storyContinue reading “Visual Inspiration”

Envisioning the future

Check out the four things I’ve done to craft a better, stronger, clearer vision of what I want my future to hold.

The “why” behind your “what”

At the beginning of the school year, we got a talk from our area superintendent and he asked us all: What is the “why” behind your “what”? This was a really introspective question for me, and not only in the way that I look at my teaching career or lesson plans, but in the wayContinue reading “The “why” behind your “what””

Currently Consuming June 2019

My last post, I shared some of my favorite tools and items. It got me thinking about how fun it could be to really track and share my journey through what I read, watch, listen to, etc. in case you are looking for something new to try or have heard of something and would likeContinue reading “Currently Consuming June 2019”

Another year…

Tomorrow is my birthday! And I’m really excited with the way that this past year has really shaped up and is projecting me into the future. Here are a couple of things that I am reflecting on as I log another year in the books: I am only capable of so much The past fewContinue reading “Another year…”

The Power of “No”

I recently started freelancing and picked up a few jobs that went fairly quickly. It was exciting and I quickly took on a larger editing project and a smaller, ongoing one. However, it was soon clear that the smaller job was actually a lot more work than I had anticipated, and, paired with tight deadlines,Continue reading “The Power of “No””

Some inspirational words to keep you going

Okay, maybe these are here to keep me going, but maybe they’ll help you, too.

Time to marinate

I was looking at the new NaNoWriMo website that they are trying to launch and I ran across my old NaNo projects. The first year that I participated was way back in 2011! That’s almost 8 years ago! And you know what else I saw? The novel that I had tried to write (and failedContinue reading “Time to marinate”