Category: Blog
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Small Things
Where does anxiety come from? Does it come from a big event? Does it come from some great existential crisis? Or does it come from an accumulation of little things? Something occurred to me yesterday. I was looking at my car and noticed the damaged decal that had been on my car since the last…
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Narrow
We live in a very narrow field. Our planet in on a narrow band within a star system. Our bodies must maintain a very narrow temperature range with our own body only able to manage a slightly less narrow range without the aid of our inventions. What we see falls in a narrow band of…
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A Year Lost
It has been a year and 6 days since I had suspended my daily writing goals. Things happened and only recently have I sat down, stopped making excuses, and started the writing daily goal once again. A year was lost to my excuses. Now sure, I wrote during this year between today and when I…
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Words Words Words
I’ve been capturing my word counts every day for every project with consistency since the beginning of last year. Before that, it was a sporadic practice, without the detail that I record today. It’s a practice that I have made a mainstay in my writing life. Why? This is the way I know exactly how…
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Repeat
Repetition is key. Every day, do something to improve yourself. And repeat it. Every. Day. Trying to learn to play an instrument? Practice every day. Repeat the habit until it feels unnatural to not play. Want to learn a language? Speak it. Every. Day. Repetition breeds learning. It breeds behavior. Nothing that is truly worth…
Jeremy C Kester 