Tag: Motivation

• October 20, 2021Guest Interview, Mindset, Health & Writing Life

  SPA Girls Podcast- EP314 – Interview with Linda Pucci

  Today Linda is here to talk about how we as creatives can overcome our limiting beliefs, fears of success, failure, being an imposter et al and how we can STOP being our own worst enemy!

• June 2, 2021Mindset, Health & Writing Life

  SPA Girls Podcast- EP294 – How To Embrace Change

  This episode we're back "on the couch" with the SPA Girls to discuss tools and resources we've used to cope with the ever changing climate of self-publishing, AND those big life events that we all face at times.

• December 9, 2020Writing Craft & Editing

  SPA Girls Podcast – EP269 – What To Do When You Run Out Of Steam

  What do you do when you're running out of steam and you're only in the middle of the book? Or you're just running out of steam in general?

• October 28, 2020Self-Publishing Process & Tools

  SPA Girls Podcast – EP263 – Listener Questions: Motivation, Time Management, Local Market

  In this episode we’re answering listener questions - a couple around the change of life many are experiencing right now. We have a few suggestions that helped us through switching to full time writing and the fickle motivation issue. Then we discuss how to tackle being visible in your local market. If you’ve had to deal with these things or are going through them now, please tell us about it on our Facebook page or comment on this post.  Keen to join the SPA Girls in a live workshop? Join our mailing list here and we’ll let you know the minute we have workshop bookings open. https://selfpublishingworkshop.co.nz/index.html Come say hi on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SPAGirlsPodcast/ and Twitter @spagirlspodcast.

• October 21, 2020Goal Setting, Planning & Productivity

  SPA Girls Podcast – EP262 – The Four Tendencies For Writers

  This week's podcast had us (good-naturedly) arguing a wee bit. Shar and Trudi typically were ALL OVER doing Gretchen Rubin's online test to identify which of the four tendencies they identified most closely as. Cheryl, super organized as always, also came to the podcast fully prepped and self-tested.  Then there was our favorite Rebel, Wendy - whose self motivation and discipline continuously inspires us, but who also has no time for our self-help discussions 🤣 Can we crack her? Or will she succumb to peer pressure to do the test? (Or, let's face it, shut us up). 

• January 15, 2020Goal Setting, Planning & Productivity

  SPA Girls Podcast – EP222 – Write It Down, Make It Happen

  Are you ready to make 2020 YOUR year?! This week we talk about the importance of physically writing down your goals to make them happen. Wendy is a perfect example of the power of writing them down: inspired by a workshop from Debbie Macomber, she's managed to check off every single goal she wrote down for 2007! Listen how she did it...

• June 5, 2018Writing Craft & Editing

  SPA Girls Podcast – EP138 – Getting Your Motivation Back

  This week we talk about how to get yourself motivated again after life gets in the way. It could be illness, personal issues, a holiday, an injury or even just your own negative self talk. Whatever it is that has stopped you from doing the amount of writing you want to do, we're here to bust those barriers down and find ways to get you back on track. We've all experienced it at some point in our lives; that feeling that you're wading through the quicksand, your body and mind not working as quickly as you want them to. It can feel almost impossible some days to get out of that quicksand, but we're here to help. This episode is all about the ways we've managed to get back into healthy, happy writing routines after problems in our lives, and what you can do to do the same. We've got options for different types of writers, because we're all different and what works for one person won't necessarily work for another.  The beginning of this conversation was a series of tweets by author Courtney Milan, who talked about how she got herself back into the writing groove after her writing mojo took a dive, by being more aware of how she was 'training' herself to write, and making writing fun again. Let's all make writing FUN!