• Thoughts on Writing

    Learning as a New Writer

    Today is another day where I really don’t feel like writing. This is often the case for me. I go several days of feeling pumped to write and then several days (or weeks or months) feeling like I have nothing to say and not feeling up to trying. This month I made a goal to try and write every single day and to publish more often on my blog. While sitting here thinking “I really don’t feel like writing right now”, and knowing that if I don’t write I definitely won’t have anything to publish, I made the decision to ask one of my writing friends to sprint with me.…

  • Thoughts on Life

    Setting Goals

    Setting goals for myself is one of my favorite things to do. I love to make new years resolutions, monthly goals, weekly goals, spiritual goals, September resolutions, last week of the year goals… you get the picture. At the beginning of the year I made the goal to read 100 books in 2019 and make at least 1/3 of them non-fiction and also to finally read the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Unfortunately, I have only read seven books so far, and so according to Goodreads I am ten books behind (but that’s okau, I plan to keep making my goal 100 books until one day I make it, even…

  • Thoughts on Faith

    What Am I Called to Today?

    Over the last year, a lot in my life has changed. Things that I was planning on suddenly came to an end and I was left in a place at the end of January where I realized that I had to, in a sense, start my life from the beginning again. Now the truth is that I am young and a lot of people would say that I haven’t even begun my life at 22 years old so I should stop panicking. But for me, things were different. As a teenager I did my best to build my life and know where I wanted to go and work hard to…