In 2021, in our daily lives, let us craft a pearl necklace that is  a string of hope with each orb a beacon of light, faith and love

Free Word Plug In

For those who are auditory learners/ editors, or process  info. better through auditory means... here is something below that may be of help. 

http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/home/  ---   reads Microsoft Word aloud. but Windows only.

Start off the New Year with your memoirs

Writing your memoirs - no matter what your age may be- is one way to motivate & inspire yourself and others. You get to see how much you have accomplished & how much you have survived.

It will also help identify writing accomplishments that can be put in your professional profiles for LinkedIN, Twitter, VisualCV, YouTube video and other professional sites.

What a wonderful way to start off a New Year.

Creativity

In the ever- rushed world of the 21st century, we never take the time to nurture something is inherent and organic within all of us ... and that is Creativity.


I believe that Creativity is a spontaneous process erupting from the soul within...

If you take the time out of each day for such nurturing , then it will be reflected in your writing endeavours.

For all women writers- International Women s Day - March 8th

International Women s Day - March 8 th,which is celebrating its one hundred- year anniversary, is dedicated to all women , warriors in pink, who fight discrimination based on skin colour, gender, culture , age, religion, educational and socio-economic status, their weight or simply the colour of their hair.



Instead of being divided, we have to be united in our battle for equal status in the workplace, and in the world.



As we honour this significant day and remember all those who fought so hard so we may observe it, let us make a promise to ourselves that we may never turn away from another woman in need- no matter the circumstances involved.

Journalling and the year 2011

As we begin a new year, I thought it might be nice to revisit the benefits of journalling in my life and in others.. Journalling is a wonderful way of seeing your life- both professionally as a writer and personally- in a different light.

So here again are the main benefits of journalling:

-getting clarity re: what you want in your life.

-Creating and setting boundaries.

-Ferreting out life goals.

-Beginning a journey to walking your own pathway.

-Tapping into your intrapersonal/ retrospective side by means of reflection.

-Helping you take yourself and others through the experiential learning cycle.


-Finding hidden talents and abilities within your authentic self

-Finding the positive strengths in yourself and others, and building on them

For a great guidebook on journalling, you can check out my journalling workbook at " A Year in Serendipity: A Journalling
Workbook"http://tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal .

All the best for 2011

Building and Nurturing Harmony in Your Writing

Dr. Ian Prattis , founder of Friends for Peace Canada, who is a Zen teacher, speaker and writer about the well-being of the planet . He is a writer of articles for Guidelines to Recreate Our World based on the teachings of Zen.

He believes the source of peace in the world is a peaceful mind.

This also applies to your writng. To create this environment , you have to work on transforming the seeds of fear of failure and rejection by cultivating peace within its inner core.

Sometimes, such an environment can be nurtured simply by being at peace within yourself. Peace happens one step , one person, and one mind at a time. Yes, it can take internal work to achieve this... Some people can work towards this through meditation, Tai Chi, and Qi Qong and other programs that can reduce stress and negative emotions.

Yes, it is possible to change the human mind set-- when dealing with perils of being a writer.

Scrapbooking-- a writer's inspiration

As a writer of a one-of-a-kind journaling workbook “ A Year in Serendipity” http://
tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal -written to help people in their life and career goal
attainment, I have come to experience first-hand some of the unique insights
regarding how to use scrapbooking in both my professional and personal life.

There are some very wonderful and inspiring practical reasons for scrapbooking.

Yes, indeed, it can be a multifaceted technique/approach to career and life management and planning. For example, it can be applied by writers in autobiographies, diaries and even as a professional career portfolio/webfolio/ blog.

Scrapbooking, in a life skills sense, can be employed to focus on motivating and
inspiring moments , and even to retrace a journey to life transforming/ life –changing moment(s). For instance, you can immortalize a pictorial of a significant historical event you were involved in , or an episode of personal achievement that changed your life forever.



Scrapbooking can be one way to figure out who you used to be, how you got to be who you are today, while at the same , rediscovering the journey that got you there.

The possibilities for its uses and benefits for writing are limitless.