Great questions, Rachel. For mindfulness, a daily practice of yoga, mediation, and gratitude helps. And please keep in mind, while it sounds good in print, I don't do a lot, but I try to do it every day.
For distractions, I keep the phone in airplane mode as much as possible, and don't participate in social media except FB minimally. I do…
Great questions, Rachel. For mindfulness, a daily practice of yoga, mediation, and gratitude helps. And please keep in mind, while it sounds good in print, I don't do a lot, but I try to do it every day.
For distractions, I keep the phone in airplane mode as much as possible, and don't participate in social media except FB minimally. I don't go on YouTube until the evening after work.
As far as writing books, there are so many! What I did when I lived in the States was check out all the library books on writing that looked interesting and dived in. I particularly liked On Writing Well by William Zinsser. He has several. Cheers!
Great questions, Rachel. For mindfulness, a daily practice of yoga, mediation, and gratitude helps. And please keep in mind, while it sounds good in print, I don't do a lot, but I try to do it every day.
For distractions, I keep the phone in airplane mode as much as possible, and don't participate in social media except FB minimally. I don't go on YouTube until the evening after work.
As far as writing books, there are so many! What I did when I lived in the States was check out all the library books on writing that looked interesting and dived in. I particularly liked On Writing Well by William Zinsser. He has several. Cheers!
I also don't do a lot of meditation and yoga, though I wrote it, it's my intention but in practice ... :)
Airplane mode is a good idea! I should try that.
I did started a book in writing found in my local library - steering the craft with le guin. I'll check out Zinsser thanks!