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Let’s Get Organized: A Five Week Challenge

December 12, 2017 By Lauren

Below: Want to get organized, but don’t have the time for 31 days of extra tasks? Join this challenge to help make your life SIMPLER! There’s something about a fresh start, a clean slate, that I find so appealing. The idea that you can put your missteps behind you and begin again, that each new day […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational Tagged With: challenge, getting organized, goals, new year's resolutions, organized

Week 48: My Writing Goals for 2015

December 22, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Writing Goals 2015

On Friday night, Eric and I got to go out on a date. Dates are a rare occurrence. Rarer still is the fact that we spent part of the time Christmas shopping together. Guess how many times we’ve done that since we met. (Side note: Tomorrow, December 23rd, is the 10th anniversary of the day […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: 2015, blog, blogging, goals, keeping it real, new year, writing

Week 45: Five Tips for Setting and Meeting Goals

December 1, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Challenge Setting and Meeting Goals

November is over and so is NaNoWriMo. In case you missed my post at the beginning of November, I made a very last minute decision to participate in National Novel Writing Month. The goal was to write 50,000 words in the thirty days of November. I was under no illusion that I would actually complete […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: goals, keeping it real, meeting goals, nanowrimo, setting goals, tips

Week 41: I Might Be Crazy

November 1, 2014 By Lauren

NaNoWriMo

New to the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. I’ve signed up for something and I think I might be crazy for attempting it. What is it, you ask. I’m doing NaNoWriMo. Waiting for the collective gasp of disbelief…. Nothing? Oh wait, I bet 99% of you have no […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: crazy, fiction, goals, keeping it real, nanowrimo, novel, november, writing

Week 28: Bring it on- Fight to the finish

August 3, 2014 By Lauren

Inconsistent

First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to find out what it’s all about. Let’s talk character flaws. Mine, not yours (although I’d love for you to list some of yours in the comments so I don’t feel like such a loser). Actually, I just want to talk about one […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: character flaws, consistency, dreams, follow through, goals, ideas, inconsistency, keeping it real, plans, projects, stick-to-it-iveness

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