Keep Moving Forward Challenge…
My friend and the facilitator of Bucks County Creative Explorers, Kelly wrote a blog post about being stuck. She wrote that she felt like her feet were stuck in concrete. That is exactly how I was feeling too.
I’ve enjoyed the challenge and hope Kelly will bring it back at the beginning of every season.
Kelly then posted this challenge. If you are feeling stuck too please join us. Let’s inspire each other to smash our concrete shoes.
CHALLENGE:
I will post an entry in the Keep Moving Forward Challenge every Thursday from now through March 2015. To join in on the journey, use the comment section to tell us about how you “kept moving forward” that week. Write about it on your own blog site (and include the link in the comments), make a video, and/or use the hashtag #KeepMovingForwardChallenge on the social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
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As usual my goals were pretty mighty this week. Life got in the way so I didn’t complete everything I wanted too.
I spent an afternoon with my nineteen-year-old, fifteen-year-old and five-year-old granddaughters. We went shopping for and found a beautiful prom dress, for Allyson (the nineteen-year-old.) I practiced making videos with the five-year-old. She is quite a director, oh my. I need SO much more practice.
I facilitate workshops for the Press Club and we had to cancel one in January due to weather. The make- up was last Saturday and this Saturday we have a regularly scheduled workshop. The committee, presenters and attendees are all having a really good time but it is time consuming. I never imagined I would enjoy teaching so much. Next month we have a writing workshop. This is the one I have been most looking forward to.
Although the workshops are taking up a lot of my time I did manage to write and post my A-to-Z April Blog Challenge Theme Reveal post and I wrote 2 ½ posts for the challenge. Only twenty-four more left to write. Are you participating in the challenge? I highly recommend it.
https://doreenmcgettigan.com/?p=5638
I finished my book cover questionnaire for The Stranger In My Recliner and received some great feedback on my back matter (text on the back of the book) from my writing friends at Bucks County Creative Explorers. So I guess you could say I finished a lot of ‘business’ writing this week.
I still haven’t found a forward writer or blurb writers for the book. I haven’t tried very hard either. This goal needs to be #one next week.
All in all I feel like I have moved forward this week, slightly.
How about you?
Have a blessed week,
Doreen
26 thoughts on “#Keep Moving Forward Challenge…”
Doreen, just in the items we’ve worked on together, you’ve moved forward by leaps and bounds. It’s been such a gift to work with you. I look forward to your new book and our continued friendship. You rule.
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Thank you Cindy I feel the same way about you!
I don’t really ever experience “stuck” because I am so far behind on life! LOL. I have been experiencing sadness but that is situation induced.
Oh Shelly I’m sorry you are sad. I have had a too sad year too.
I’ve started a ‘true’ diet and health regime and have kept all of those commitments. YEA! Being the Mother of the GROOM can be VERY motivating. Thanks for the inspiration!
Good for you! I was the mother of the groom once and yep it can be motivating. I still have an unmarried son, I should get more diet and exercise serious before I have too:)
I envy you the granddaughters. 😀 With only grandsons (whom I love and adore and wouldn’t trade for the world), I think some girly girls would be fun to spend the day with.
Good luck finding the writers you seek for your book. The back cover looks super.
I am overwhelmingly blessed with 6 girls and 7 boys. It’s all fun. Thank you!
The “stuck” feeling is all too familiar these days. I need some change to get going again. I will look forward to your Thursday posts!
Thank you Mary, I am stuck on meatballs right now:)
Sometimes it can be good to stick for a minute or two. But not for long.
I am starting to realize that, finally.
When I’m stuck, I take a long walk. Thinking and walking are a great combination. Oh, and some wine helps, too!
If it wasn’t for wine, I can’t even go there.
Dear God, woman, do you never rest?! Getting stuck is inevitable for busy creative people. We are but mere mortals. A walk in the park with the pooch always helps me clear things up. We sit under a tree for the good part of an hour. No phone, just the two of us, people and pup watching. Blessings!
I am really looking forward to walking. I just signed up for a five-mile-walk. I am out of my mind.
I hate being stuck. Hate it!!!!! It helps me to think about all the times I’ve been stuck before and worked past them and all the obstacles I’ve overcome. Cocaine also helps.
I know enough now to keep moving so it’s impossible to get stuck even if I’m running in circles.
I was totally kidding about the Coke.
Lol.
I’ve been swamped with the need to entertain my daughter while she is on her spring break from Kindergarten. Managing to get some work done at night–but only then.
Oh how I remember those days when my kids were little. I miss them.
For somebody who’s stuck, you seem to be moving around a lot! You are such an inspiration and I am so on board with the whole moving forward challenge.
Thank you Lois. Even if I feel like I’m running in circles I’m going to keep moving.
Isn’t it wonderful when you find something you had no idea you would enjoy? I learn from your writing Doreen, so I imagine that you are a great in person teacher as well! I love the moving forward challenge. We both know, all too well, that the only way to get anywhere is by putting one foot in front of the other and know that there will be both roadblocks and set backs. We just have to keep moving.
Even if we are going in circles…