Happy New Month! Happy Monday!
It may seem odd the simple joy I get from layered white canvas. Monday is a week’s new canvas, the 1st of a month is a chance to do my best, again – though my best differs from time-to-time.
I am participating in the Ultimate Blog Challenge once again. My blog and my website and my business have fallen by the wayside more often than not since… well, for a long time. My biggest July intention includes changing that – I have a plan, I have a method, I have collaborators.
This delights me.
Completion, skating along the infinite loop do loop towards endings and beginnings is a place the blog will document throughout the month. I look forward to meeting new people and spending time with old friends.
There is only one July 2024 and one of my greatest desires is to be able to look back at it and say, “Wow, that was an incredible month of peace, joy, fulfillment and more than I expected.
My biggest completion is I am finishing “Haiku Saved My Life: How the Healing Properties of Courage, Creativity & Consistency Changed Everything.”
I refuse to say “finally” because the entire process was important.
So much of my life over these last years has been about falling down and getting up that the pace of this project is not setting a pattern for books that take forever – after all, this one took half the time of the last one which I ended up shelving so this is actually progress!
“Haiku Saved My Life” is a braided memoir sharing the tales of 377 haiku writing from the end of 2019 into the beginning of 2021. The reader will be taken on an adventure which opened the door to creating several inspiring bodies of work one small step at a time.
It has elements of inspiration, instruction, poetry and themes of mortality are woven in as well.
By mid-month the plan is to send the final draft off the the book designer – and go from there.
Here’s to a festive, celebratory, project completion extravaganza in July!
Julie Jordan Scott is a Writer, Creative Life Coach and Creative Entrepreneur who looks forward to a July that expands her work as a writer, speaker, teacher, facilitator and traveler.
She is grateful to be spending parts of July with her.
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Sounds like you have a solid plan for the month! I appreciate how you are looking forward instead of being hard on yourself for the ups and downs. It’s a message many can benefit from. Your book sounds really interesting, I’m looking forward to reading more about your progress during the UBC this month!
Thank you, Kimberly! I look forward to seeing your progress as well! Cheers for July!
So much enthusiasm and joy are coming from these lines! It’s infectious – happy Monday, and happy July right back at you! 🙂
Here’s a quote from a movie, I believe it was “Entrapment”: “You can’t rush Art.” I believe this to be very true.
The content of the book was so personal yet shared openly as I was creating. Stitching it all together required contemplative story creation and I do not regret not finishing it “on time” like I could have… this feels so much better. Thank you for your comment! So good to see you!
That kind of writing consistency is impressive! I’m inspired to stay true to the blog challenge even more (I usually last 15 days). I hope things go well with the designer.
Thank you for your kind words, Amy. I appreciate the visit and am grateful you took a moment to let me know your thoughts. I always appreciate kind words!
Oh wow! Congratulations!! I love what you said about beginning the month with the idea of what you will celebrate about it at the end. I am thinking about that now, and one intention I’d like to set is to be kinder to and more in love with myself at the end of the month than I am today.
I understand all too well about a website. My website had fallen at times due to not having either the time to do it or just not having a computer. Your progress is uplifting and motivating. How exciting to see your plan goals! I’ll be cheering you on from the sidelines over here.
Congratulations! I hope the book publishing goes well. It’s on my to do list to publish journals. Best of luck to you!