Category: Productivity

Don’t Just Look For A Solution To A Problem (Instead, focus on what you want.)

Neera

I prided myself as a great problem solver when a casual talk with a friend opened my eyes to another possibility — to be more than just a problem solver.

I was on the phone with a friend and after an hour-long catch-up, I made the remark to wrap up the conversation, “I am glad we found the solution to my problem.”

This friend of mine is a coach, and she opened her coaching practice recently after eighteen months of wilderness. My remark led to a full-blown coaching session with her in which she probed me to examine my thinking.

“Rather than focusing on solving the problem, think about what you really want. How and when won’t be the questions when you know what you really want,” she said.

She was right.

Problem-solving gives us only a limited range of possibilities.

Her advice reminded me of something I read in Robert Fritz’s book The Path Of Least Resistance.

When you focus on solving a problem, you can’t help inheriting the assumptions baked into it.

The focus limits you to a very narrow range of outcomes, all of them leading towards, ‘I want this problem to go away.’

When you take action to lessen a problem, you have less of a problem — so, of course, you are less motivated to keep addressing it.

Let’s say, we resolve to make some improvement — in our life, our relationships, our finances, and our community — it works for a while, but then it fizzles out, and we resume our old ways.

We blame a lack of self-discipline or conclude that circumstances were against us.

But there’s a more intriguing explanation for this sort of defeat.

What if ‘solving the problem’ was the reason we cannot solve the problem?

Fritz suggests:

Instead of focusing on the problem, ask yourself, what do you want to create?

If we focus on creating rather than problem-solving, we will feel less discouraged by the discrepancy between what we want and what we think we ought to do.

That is the dilemma we all go through more than we like. We face predicaments arising from contradictions, variance, inconsistencies, and expectations.

According to Fritz:

Creators have a higher ability to tolerate discrepancies than most others. This is because discrepancy is the stock in the trade of the creator.

When you create, you become a player of forces, such as — contrasts, opposites, similarities, differences, time, balance, and so on. To the creator, all these forces are useful.

When there is more discrepancy, there is more force to work with.

If there is less, there is more momentum as you move toward the final creation of the result.

Creating is no problem and problem-solving is not creating.

When choosing what to create, you do not choose what you do not want. You choose what you want.

A creator’s motivation is different. Their motivation is for their creation to exist.

A creator creates to bring the creation into being.

A creator creates regardless of his emotions.

For creators, emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions, but independently of them.

They can create on days filled with the depths of despair. They can create on days filled with the heights of joy.

As a creator, you become a river, going through life and taking the path of least resistance.

More of life should be approached as creation rather than problem-solving.

Decide what you want, take stock of your reality, and then take the necessary actions to invent the outcome you seek.

My friend’s advice changed my whole outlook. I no longer focus on problems, but stay tuned to what I want. What I really, really want. Once I figure that out, the ‘how’ and ‘when’ take care of themselves.

I Got Rid Of Overwhelm Virus For Good, With A Simple Remedy

Neera

When I quit working back in 2019, I thought I will have all the time in the world, now that I don’t have to commute to work, and spend most of my waking hours doing meaningless things that others want me to do.

I thought I would wake up leisurely each morning, go over the newspaper over a cup of tea, spend a couple of hours writing, then go out to visit a gallery or meet a friend, before heading home for a long, interesting evening.

Instead, I was chasing my tail all day, doing things I never thought I would have to do. Things such as writing articles, social media posts, newsletters, doing marketing, web calls, seminars, and webinars.

I had contracted the overwhelmed virus.

The virus incapacitated me for years. I kept soldiered on. I reduced the number of articles I published each week to just one. I made them smaller. I stopped writing on my website and concentrated just on Medium. I ignored Facebook and LinkedIn completely. I still couldn’t manage.

I was about to quit, but before that, I gave writing one last shot.

What I did might sound contradictory, but I set myself a challenge to write 100 articles in 100 days.

From 13 April, 2021 to 21 July, 2021, I wrote 100 articles without missing a day. How did I do that when I was finding it hard to write even one article a week?

You might think the answer lies in increased ability, yet that’s not it. I didn’t suddenly become more talented in those days.

You might suggest I somehow had more time to write, but it wasn’t even that. During those months, I wrote and published my first book.

So, how did I do it?

I stopped fretting and kept ploughing ahead.

Writing and publishing an article day becomes a task just like cooking or doing dishes.

As soon as I stop writing (and publishing) every day, writing becomes difficult again.

Prior to 100 articles, I had taken part in NaNoWriMo several times and I knew if I could meet the challenge of writing 50,000 words in 30 days, I can write an article a day.

Surprisingly, I don’t get overwhelmed when I am participating in a writing challenge or publishing an article a day.

That overwhelm comes from less, not more.

I don’t know if you’ve ever been part of a 30-day challenge, but a simple challenge like that can solve your problem of overwhelm forever.

Then I have another ace up my sleeve, and it’s called “planning”.

When faced with writing 7 articles in a week, you can’t just sit down and write each day. Your brain is fried with the thought of having to create such a high volume of work on a constant basis. The only way forward is to sit down and work out a plan. And that’s precisely what I do.

Without the plan, I would be soon flounder. To get those articles out day after day without fail, the only lifesaver is a plan.

Time and time again, the people who are overwhelmed will almost always not have a plan. When you know you have to write something every day, you will read online magazines, or go to the library and come back with an armload of books, you will keep your eyes and ears open for stories.

You will make notes, collect headline, have draft articles ready for the next day. You are ready. Just like you stock your fridge and pantry for the week to cook every night, you stock your draft folder with draft articles for the week.

If you go back to the root of overwhelm, you will almost always find a lack of planning.

Once you get down to planning, you realize it’s a bit like being on the road.

You may have the plan to get to your destination, but things have changed since you got into your car. There might be too much traffic, or an accident up ahead. Every lousy driver seems to have shown up on the road at the exact point you started on your journey.

When we start a project, we realise things change and our plans have to change too. That’s fine. Yet planning helps.

They say plans are worthless, but planning is priceless.

It is during planning that we are prepping our mind for the task ahead. And most of the time the only thing standing between us and our goal is our ‘mind.’

Usually, it takes much less time to do a task when we ‘feel’ like it. But when we don’t, a simple task feels like a mammoth.

There are ways to trick our ‘mind.’ If you can make the task a routine, the mind allocates the task to the ‘autopilot.’

Autopilot is the subconscious part of the brain that takes care of all routine mundane activities, such as brushing our teeth, washing the dishes, turning the TV at news time.

When article writing become a routine, subconscious mind takes over and it keeps working on it all day in the background.

Most people who get things done have similar routines

They first set a plan in place, and then turn it into a routine.

The people who are overwhelmed never have a plan, and hence no routine either.

Check out the busiest, most productive people you know and they’ll have plans and routines. Find someone who is overwhelmed all the time, and they’ll tell you they have plans and routines, but they often have none. They complain they have no time to plan. Well, there you go — it’s all downhill from thereon.

A plan needs to exist, or nothing happens.

Planning also stops us from taking on too much.

When your day is already filled with drawing lessons, writing articles, and learning software you really should master — you know that you’ve got enough on your plate. Without the plan in place, it seems you can slot in more stuff.

I plan my year, my months, and then my weeks. But I don’t plan my days. My days have routines. Even then I keep most of my days flexible so that I can handle emergencies and make room for spontaneity.

To get off the overwhelm bandwagon, you first have to work out a plan.

Then the plan has to become a routine. But that’s just the starting point. It doesn’t help if you take ages to get something done.

Productive people also have another superpower. That power is called fluency. Fluency is the ability to do a task quickly and effortlessly.

Look at all the work you’re doing, and you can be sure you’re wasting massive amounts of time.

Let’s take the simple act of finding interesting images for your articles. Do you do that each time you write an article, or you set aside half an hour in a week and download a bunch of free images to use in your articles?

The difference between people who get a lot done vs those that struggle is merely the lack of fluency.

We fail to create such shortcuts because of course, we’re busy. We fail to implement new features because we have a life. But it’s all a lack of fluency, and it leads to a drain of energy.

Once your energy is drained, you’ve heading towards a state of overwhelm.

You can get a high-quality article done in 90 minutes flat or sweat over it for days on end.

People who are overwhelmed take the longer route

The way to get away from that overwhelming feeling is to ask yourself: How can I do the task in ‘x’ minutes?

Or x. hours?

It is not as hard as you believe. In reality, most of us can reduce the number of hours we spend on writing quite dramatically.

What the word ‘overwhelm’ suggests is that we have lost control.

The word ‘overwhelm used to give me negative feelings. I have eliminated it from my dictionary and replaced it with ‘fully optimized.’

Now, when I feel I am losing control, I don’t think ‘overwhelm’ I think of re-prioritizing. It changes my perspective. I don’t get negative feeling about the situation I am in. Rather, I feel energized to review and realign my priorities.

If you use the word overwhelm, that alone will kill you. The way out of overwhelm is not exactly easy, but it starts with a word change.

‘Optimized’, or ‘Re-prioritize’ are good start. Once you have replaced the word, you can start working on achieving fluency.

Takeaway

Anyone can get to where he or she wants to be and do it without feeling overwhelmed.

It’s a combination of several elements, but in the end, those who are able to meet the source of their overwhelm head-on and become fluent at it, can be free of the virus forever.

Lack Of Energy, Not Time, Causes Writers To Stall And Crash

Neera

One of the biggest hurdles of writing has nothing to do with writing at all.

It has nothing to do with time, either.

Instead, it is a lack of understanding of how energy works.

As I have set myself a challenge to write 27 articles in 20 days and came up with a genius plan, to write five articles a day, three days a week, I am finding I am running out of energy much before I am running out of time.

I would start strong. I would open five documents, and start working on them, and before I know it, several hours have passed, and I have achieved nothing.

I would be on the computer, mind you, for all this time — reading, researching, writing, rewriting, working on headlines, and creating sub-heading. After all this intense work, my eyes would get tired. Soon after, my brain would refuse to concentrate and I know I was functioning on the reserve battery and would soon crash.

There is a way around this hurdle.

Understanding my energy pattern.

Energy isn’t something we think about while writing. Instead, we worry about the content and the time we have to write it. However, energy is the main reason we get stuck.

Energy is not about being a superhero and continuing till the work is done. Despite some super willpower, you can still run out of energy on a consistent basis.

We run out of energy because:

  1. Lack of pre-work
  2. The scarcity of input
  3. Your energy levels

Lack of pre-work

Pre-work is all the things we do even before we start writing. Writing is a several-step process. You got to select a topic; outline it, and do whatever research needs to be done before you can start writing.

Sometimes we get stalled because we don’t have enough information. That leads us to the next point.

The scarcity of input

You got to give time between selecting a topic and letting the brain come up with ideas to write about the topic. When you choose a topic, give it a loose outline and leave it for a few days, subconsciously, your brain is looking for ways to present an argument.

Your brain is looking for connections between whatever you read and whatever is already stored in your mind. By giving it time, you come back with a unique angle on the topic. This is when you will feel energized to write about the topic.

Your energy levels

Your energy levels are not the same during the day. For some people, their energy is at its peak in the morning and as the day progress, their energy depletes. For these people, writing an article after dinner is a bad idea.

I am one of these people. Invariably I leave the article writing too late in the evening and then pay the price for it.

On better days, my strategy is to select a few topics, preferably five, create five documents, and outline five articles. Then next day, do whatever research is required for those topics. On day three, I start writing them one by one, preferably in the morning and definitely before dinner. After dinner, I do tasks that require low energy. Tasks such as selecting an image, adding a footer, and a CTA (call-to-action).

If I can’t finish an article, because it is too late at night and I am running on reserve, rather than pushing through it, I leave it till morning. Sometimes it takes me just ten or fifteen minutes to finish and publish the article.

Takeaway

Rather than managing your time, manage your energy.

Identify your peak, medium, and low energy times of the day.

Identify which tasks need low, medium, or high energy and do them at

Plan your topics in advance.

Spread the writing tasks over several days.

Get the outline done.

Make sure your research is stored away, ready to use.

Finally, write the article.

Edit it on another day.

See what can you outsource.

I Am Planning To End 2022 On A High

Neera

At the start of 2022, I set a goal for myself — I will write two articles a week on Medium.

I thought that was the minimum I should do, as I had several other writing commitments.

That was just 104 articles and in the previous year, I had written and published 100 articles in 100 days, without missing a beat.

I was going fine for the first five months of the year, and then the travel started. Since Medium had taken away the functionality, to write from mobile devices, I lost the continuity.

Instead, I started publishing my travel stories on LinkedIn.

One thing led to another, and I kept missing my goal.

In December, I usually go back to my annual goals and see how I went against them. I was horrified to find out that I was falling behind on many of them.

Here were my goals:

  • 300+ LinkedIn posts
  • 104 Medium articles
  • 52 The Whimsical Writer Newsletter issues
  • 17 Behind The Scenes issues for paid subscribers of the newsletter
  • 3 Books
  • 3 Mini-guides

Now when the time came to report on my end-of-year progress I found although I was on target with the LinkedIn posts and Newsletter issues, I was behind with the Medium articles, books, and Mini-guides.

Here is where I stand:

I had written only 67 articles in the whole year and was short by 27 articles.

I had written two mini-guides and still needed to write one

And although I had finished writing three books, I still needed to edit two of them.

Dilemma

Now, I can be lenient with myself and let go of these goals, promising myself that I will do better next year.

But then I will do the same next year.

But, if I meet my goals this year, it is likely I will meet them next year too.

Decision

So I decided, in the remaining month of December I am going to write

  • 27 articles on Medium
  • Editing two books
  • Write a mini-guide and of course
  • Write 5 newsletter issues for the month.

So here I am, ending the year on a high.

I have found when I set myself unusually high goals, I tend to find ways to meet them.

Yesterday I sat down and drafted five articles. I published one and scheduled the other four.

I learned it takes the same amount of time to write five articles as it takes to write one. In fact, over time, it becomes easier to write 5 articles in a day, because you have trained your brain to do so.

You are more focused, you waste less time on how to say things and your writing flows effortlessly.

Also, if you pick one topic and write 5 articles on it, you write faster and write much better articles than picking five different topics.

For example, if you make a schedule:

  • Monday: 5 articles on productivity
  • Wednesday: 5 articles on writing
  • Friday: 5 articles on travel.

You will have 15 articles done in a week. You also will give yourself breaks and do other things in between and start again next week with different topics.

If I were successful, I would have found a way to overcome one of my biggest challenges of the year — how to write content fast and regularly. This exercise might turn out as the best learning of 2022.

I must add I wouldn’t have dared to set this goal, had I not been practicing Silva Meditation techniques which have enabled me to turn problems into projects.

I will write more about Silva techniques in my future articles. Keep an eye out for them.

I Am Testing Silva Meditation Method To Work Less And Produce More

Neera

On a Monday morning, just three weeks ago, the universe responded to my pleas for a way out from all the stress and overwhelm associated with online writing.

I was watching Tim Urban’s TED Talk when a sponsored video interrupted it. Normally, I would quickly click ‘Skip Ad’ and get back to the video, but this time I kept listening because the story was very interesting.

I watched the video for 23 minutes and bought the course the speaker was selling. Then I watched two more videos, by the same speaker, and bought another course and membership to the community.

For three weeks, I have been learning and testing the concepts and meditation exercises taught by the course. My stress is gone, my productivity has quadrupled and my future looks brighter than ever.

Before I go any further with the benefits, I am observing I want to share with you Jose Silva’s story I heard in the sponsored video three weeks ago.

In the early 40s, a guy by the name of José Silva, developed an interest in psychology to see if it could help him increase his children’s IQ. He had ten children and like any parent he wanted them to do well.

José Silva was an electrician in the US Army. Once, while going through a routine army mental health checkup, he noticed a psychologist was assigned to ask all army recruits a series of questions. It was just a routine thing, but he grew fascinated and started reading more and more books on psychology.

As an electrician, he knew if a wire has more resistance less electricity flows through it but if you reduce its resistance, more electricity can flow through it.

Jose wondered if the same principle would apply to the brain.

What if we could reduce the resistance in the brain, can our brains operate more efficiently?

It was the early 60s, and scientists had come up with the theory that there were four levels of brain frequency — beta, the waking state; alpha the more relaxed or slightly sleepy state, theta when dreams and vivid imagery occur and delta the slowest brain wave frequency when healing and regeneration occur.

Jose wondered whether moving into the alpha or theta level was the way of reducing resistance.

He started experimenting with his daughter.

He developed a script to take his daughter to a relaxed state. His script was something like guided meditation except back in the 60s, the word guided meditation didn’t exist.

So, Jose Silva would put his kids into a guided meditation and then read her important elements from their school textbooks. He found she could remember better when she was in this alpha or slightly relaxed level of mind with her eyes closed and when he would ask her questions and she could recall better.

It is a well-known fact today that you can remember and retrieve information faster in the alpha level of mind.

Then something curious happened.

His daughter would answer him while he was still formulating a question in his mind. She somehow knew the question he was going to ask her even before he could verbally speak it.

He was a devout Christian. He couldn’t figure out how his daughter could so-called read his mind. So he wrote to Joseph Banks Rhine, of Duke University. JB Rhine was the famous doctor who pioneered research in extrasensory perception and formed parapsychology as a branch of psychology.

He told JB Ryan he had figured out a way to train children to be intuitive. JB Ryan dismissed it. He said, your daughter was probably intuitive, to begin with.

Jose Silva disagreed. So he then trained all the kids to be intuitive.

Then he trained all the neighbor’s kids. The neighbor got fascinated. Their kid’s grades were going up. What’s this man doing with them? So they asked Jose if he can teach them as well. So Jose started teaching little classes in Laredo, Texas.

Jose found it wasn’t just intuition that went up with his technique, but people’s pain disappeared and their happiness levels went up. One person had migraines for a long time and after learning from Jose Silva his migraine disappeared. He wrote about it in the local newspaper and his next class was completely swamped.

The Silva Method was born.

A path to reducing mental resistance? He called it a centering exercise.

It spread across America through the 70s and 80s. Soon it was being used by the Chicago White Sox, and famous celebrities of the time, like opera singer Margarita Piazza. The New York Times and The Washington Post featured articles on the Silva Method. Jose Silva wrote a book, The Silva Mind Control Method which sold well over a million copies.

And the Silva method, as it spread globally, ended up graduating some 10 million students over three to four decades.

But the story doesn’t end there.

A Weird Coincidence

There was a point in Jose’s research when he almost gave it up.

Jose Silva was finding his work very fulfilling, but it wasn’t making him any money. To feed his large family, he knew he had to give it up and go back to just running his electrical business. One night, as he tells in his biography, he grew so frustrated, he flung his psychology book across the room and went to sleep, promising himself that he would never dabble in this again because he needed to earn a living.

That night, he had a weird dream. He saw a figure of Mother Mary who gave him a four-digit number.

He wondered, what is this four-digit number? And the first thought was it must be the license plate number of a car, and he needed to meet the person who owns that car.

So Jose Silva decided to keep his mind open for any car with a four-digit number. As he was going to his radio repair business, a friend came to him and said, “Jose, I’m about to swing across the border to Mexico to pick up some goods. You want to come with me?” Jose said, “Sure.” It was not a busy day and Jose saw no harm in accompanying his friend across the border.

So they got into the car and drove across the border to Mexico. And as they were driving across the border to Mexico, Jose told his friend about the four-digit number and the dream. They went to a shop to buy goods in Mexico. And as Jose was picking up his goods, his friend called him over and his friend said, “Jose, look, they’re selling a lottery ticket here. Isn’t this the number that came into your dream?” And it was.

Jose bought the lottery ticket, and he ended up winning $10,000. That money allowed him to keep doing his research.

Jose wrote, look at the weirdness that happened. It wasn’t just a dream. His mind didn’t just give him a number, it showed him an image to reinforce that it was coming from a higher power. It then caused synchronicity to happen when a friend came to invite him to Mexico because the winning lottery number wasn’t on the US side. It was on the Mexican side.

Another coincidence happened when his friend saw the lottery number while he thought it was a car license plate number. All of these strung together were like a ripple of reality to give him the cash infusion needed to take the Silva method forward. It was then he realized he was on to something.

I have been going through a 28-day program and recording my progress in a journal after each day.

I have gone through many self-development programs, but never I have seen so much growth in so little time.

I am meditating three times a day, five to fifteen minutes for each instance. It is not the normal relaxation kind of meditation I was familiar with. Instead, it is an active meditation designed to help turn problems into projects.

I Am Going To Write A Book In Public

Neera

As a part of the NaNoWriMo challenge.

Tomorrow is the 1st of November. All around the world, thousands of people will glue to their laptops, writing a novel.

They will write 50,000 words in 30 days.

That is 1,667 words a day.

This annual event is known as NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month.

Each year, I take part in the challenge. I have been doing that since I found out about it in 2011.

Sometimes I win it, other times I don’t.

Winning means writing 50,000 words before the clock strikes midnight on 30th November.

Many times, I manage only a few thousand words. But I participate each year, regardless. The only exceptions are when I am traveling in November. However, twice I wrote during the travel. It killed me and ruined all the fun, so I decided not to do that again.

In NaNoWriMo terms, I am a rebel writer.

Which means I write things other than a novel.

In 2011, I wrote a short story and managed to write only 2,340 words.

In 2012, I wrote my memoir and wrote 13,458 words towards it.

In 2013, I wrote a collection of short stories and won the challenge.

In 2015, I wrote the first draft of my first novel and won it again by writing 52,504 words.

In 2016, I wrote a travel memoir and cranked up 40,516 words.

In 2017, I wrote 14,169 words in diary-style personal writing.

In 2018, I wrote 55,757 words long self-help book and won it again.

In 2019, I wrote a collection of blog articles (15,437 words).

In 2020, I wrote the draft of my second novel (17,370 words).

In 2021, I wrote a memoir again, Diary of A Wannabe Writer (16,670 words)

This year, I am planning to finish the first novel I wrote in 2015 and get it ready for publication.

But somehow that doesn’t bring in the excitement of a challenge.

So I want to up the ante, and write another book in parallel.

In public.

On LinkedIn and Medium.

Starting tomorrow.

If I have intrigued you enough and you too want to write a novel or a book in November, you can join NaNoWriMo here.

I am going to need all your encouragement and support.

An online friend on LinkedIn wrote, “You have taken on quite a challenge there.” My response was, “The worst that can happen is I fail. But I will fail doing something. Which is not a failure but a step forward. I will learn from my mistake and do it better next time.”

I have changed my relationship with failure.

I don’t see them as failures anymore. I see them as opportunities to learn.

Back in 1993, I started a business. Selling artificial jewelry. I failed at it miserably.

Then again, in 2001. This time in health supplements. I failed again.

Then I tried my hand at selling real estate, in the middle of the worst recession Australia had ever experienced. Needless to say, I didn’t sell a single house. I had failed again.

Now, thirty years later, when I look back at them, they were not failures; they were learning opportunities.

I learned more from my failures than from my successes. “Writing” was my biggest failure. In my first performance review as a middle manager, my boss said to me, “The only thing standing between you and a senior manager role is your written English.”

Bingo!

A learning opportunity!

I rolled up my sleeves and got on with turning my weakness into a strength.

– I enrolled in writing courses.
– Joined writing groups.
– Started a blog.
– Read books.
– Then wrote some.

Today, when someone says to me, “You write very well,” I smile. I tell them it is because I am not afraid of failures.

The next 30 days will show whether I fail again and learn some lessons. Or able to use what I learned about writing in the past 3–4 years and write a book in public.

I do crazy things like these now and then.

If you have been following me for a while, you would know that back in January 2021, I posted on three social media platforms for 100 consecutive days.

Then again in April 2021, I announced that I will write 100 articles in 100 days. And I did that too.

Then, in June 2021, I set myself a challenge to write a book in a week and I did that too. I even wrote an update each day, sharing my progress.

This is something like that.

A challenge to push the boundaries and do some more under pressure.

I have been trying to talk myself out of it but the idea won’t leave me. So I am going to go ahead and do it.

What is my plan?

My plan is to fictionalize a non-fiction book.

It is going to be an interesting idea, and I am very excited about it. At least for the time being. I can’t say whether this excitement will last for the entire month.

I will not chase the 50,000 words (I am a rebel writer, after all). Instead, I am going to weave a story around the messages I want to get across. If I could do that convincingly, the skeleton will be done and the book can be beefed up in subsequent edits.

When I announced this crazy idea on LinkedIn, I didn’t realize that LinkedIn posts have a limit of 3000 characters (which is about 500–600 words). So my plan is to write an abridged version on LinkedIn and a full version on Medium. I hope it will work.

From experience, I know there will be days in the month when I cannot write. Such days come, we all know that, so I am giving myself permission to skip a few days here and there and make up for them when I can.

To save you from a flood of emails, I will publish the daily chapters in my profile and will give you updates from time to time, along with the links.

As I am writing these words, my inner critic is lifting its head and before he talks me out of sending this post, I am going to hit publish.

See you tomorrow!

Bye for now.