Category: Development

  • ccdevin

    What you’ll learn when starting a blog

    When I first started writing this blog, it was mostly an experiment to see if I could even do it. I wasn’t sure what it involved, or what I would need to know and do until I did it. The inspiration came from a quote I heard that went like ‘Ready, Fire, Aim!’ This little play on words encourages us…

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    ‘I didn’t say it was good, I said I liked it’

    Nuance is something I think the collective society has really lost the ability to accommodate. As an avid reader and literature student, I have encountered dozens of novels and pieces of art that have given me incredibly mixed reactions. There are stories that I think are written objectively well, with clever language and good pacing that makes sense for the…

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    Who am I? How to find your true self

    Have you ever asked the question ‘who am I?’ If so, I invite you to read this post, and perhaps get a new perspective.

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    Create a new self: the power of the alter-ego

    How using an alter-ego has transformed my life – and how you can use it too

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    What is ‘art’?

    What a question right? What is art? Can it even be defined? I am no expert art historian nor am I a philosopher, but I am a creative and I am learning to think of myself as an artist too. Over the years that I have been writing my books, it’s been a real challenge for me to think of…

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    How to budget your energy and find more time

    Who cares what they think? How to budget your energy to worry less about what others think.

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    Be careful what you wish for…you might get it! Manifestation rules

    “If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who…

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    Use your emotions to motivate you to get what you want

    Humans are emotional beings, and even though we should learn when, where, and how we should listen to our emotions (and when not to!), we are going to be guided by them. So how can you make it work for you? First, here are two situations to help demonstrate. 1 You’re working a job you hate and desperately want a…

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    Always wanting to do more…

    Last night I was worrying about my to do list, because it was getting longer and longer while my time to do things grew shorter. It was particularly frustrating, because while my list of priorities was growing, my list of things that I wanted to do was getting pushed to the side. So many books that I wanted to read,…

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    You’ll never have enough motivation, so get to work!

    One thing I’ve always really struggled with in life is staying motivated. I’m sure many people can agree that it is one of the hardest parts of day to day life. Unfortunately, this is not going to be a post about finding your motivation, this is going to be more like a reality check. As the title says: stop waiting…