Michele Venne's Blog, page 14

All the Words

It takes about 3 days (10 hours) to write my monthly newsletter. I see several clients a day and find myself speaking a gazillion words. When I’m with Holly, I chat to her about how wonderful she is and how much she’s loved. With spreading around so many words, I wonder if I’ve used them all up. In random, sporadic moments, I envision the stories I’ve started. In response, scenes flash across the...

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A different Flow

Glancing at my calendar pages for this week, I see a lot of tasks left undone. It’s easy to get bogged down in disappointment, to feel bad because I haven’t lived up to my own expectations. In the future, I see goals unattained because I haven’t put in the work in the now. If I were in a different place, I could easily be circling in a downward spiral with negative thoughts. But that isn’t...

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Sometimes It’s Best Not to Question

It’s always tempting for me to figure how or why things are the way they are. Was it something I or someone else said or did, or didn’t say or do? Was it luck? Some random universal energy? What about karma? Part of me thinks that if I knew the reason why or how, then I could replicate or reverse the results. Someone once told me I was a “fixer.” I’m okay with that, except I can’t go back in time...

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Comfort Zone

For all her life, Holly, my horse, has gotten her winter coat starting in September and sheds beginning in January. Vets express their concern because her internal clock seems to be a little off. But not really. She waits until after the Autumnal Equinox, when the days get shorter (even though she was born and has lived all her 14 years in the Phoenix desert, where the sun may go down a minute...

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Ebb and Flow

My life is more content when I accept the ebb and flow of energy and time and opportunities. The last month has seen an increase in paid hours. Certainly something to celebrate! I’ve also helped a friend by taking care of their horse while they were out of town. Now that they’re back, and I’m settling into longer hours in front of the computer for a reason other than project creation...

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Course Correction

Because nothing is static, I prefer to think of life balance as a constant tilting this way, then making a choice to shift that way, then another decision tips me in yet a different direction. I planned to lean towards my writing projects this week, but then life tasks popped up and demanded to be dealt with. After crossing a few off the list each day, the time and energy left over was...

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Near the Edge

Completing one project means I’m a step away from beginning the next in the (thankfully) never-ending queue. I’ve been working on a list of character names I’ve used in my stories, so I don’t duplicate. Too late! If I had thought of this years ago, I wouldn’t have multiple “Jones” or “Jacob” or “Shelly” or “Cindy” in my work. I’m down to the last story, Of Warriors and Wisdom, book 3 in the...

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Looking or Not

It’s only the second week of this new year and I’ve noticed changes, whether I’m looking directly at the change or not. Practicing my habit of setting an alarm so I don’t stay too long on one project never stuck. I forget to set the alarm. Or I set it, but then keep working after I turn it off. I think it’s best that I give up a habit I can’t seem to practice enough to make stick.

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Hello 2023!

Happy 2023! I hope sparks of joy and good health have already showered your life. With my renewed clarity, I greeted the new year with open arms. The fact that I’m already behind on my writing projects isn’t a surprise. Haha! I’ve scheduled two admin tasks to finish this month and FOUR stories to work on. On paper, it looked like I would have enough time. But I always forget to schedule life.

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Finally. Clarity.

After months of knowing something wasn’t right… then weeks of thinking about it, and days of reading and journaling, I finally have clarity. My new why shines like a light in the darkness where I wandered for far too long. And since not much is in isolation, my why led to a definition of success, which led to goals, which brought me back to my why. I’m not celebrating or sharing the details...

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