The Goodjelly Blog
No. 144 | By Christine Carron
It’s that time of year again. We are a skip, hop, and jump away from the final quarter of the year. That means even if you don’t consider yourself much of a planner, you are likely going to feel some energy pulling you to take stock, assess, and get into...
No. 143 | By Christine Carron
On all the group coaching sessions in Goodjelly’s programs, at the end, I invite writers to identify a “favorite frame” or a “gem” from the call. Recently, one of the the writer’s gems had to do with her ongoing surprise at how...
No. 142 | By Christine Carron
Once upon a time, I stood up in a personal growth workshop, filled with about two hundred other women, and stated that I had never been on a date. I was in my thirties.
I still have a twinge of embarrassment about that moment. It was not an accurate statement,...
No. 141 | By Christine Carron
Stinginess is an unwillingness to spend and a lack of generosity. “Inner Stinginess” is the phrase I coined for the tendency I’ve noticed in myself and other writers that adds an edge of harshness to how we run our writing adventures.
For example,...
No. 140 | By Christine Carron
On a recent group coaching call with the writers in the Jam Straight program, we were discussing how to stay motivated in the face of rejections and uncertainty. Part of my answer included the suggestion to practice “fierce inner kindness.”
Inner Kindness...
No. 139 | By Christine Carron
Goodjelly’s 100% focus on writing productivity using process and mindset tools is unique. Writers learn no craft in my programs. They don’t share their work for critiques. They don’t have to critique anyone’s work.
So what do we get up to in a...
No. 138 | By Christine Carron
In Aretha Franklin’s Respect, she uses the acronym TCB, or taking care of business. Goodjelly is about helping writers take care of business no matter the circumstances.
Even when we are in resistance. Perhaps especially when we’re in resistance, because...
No. 137 | By Christine Carron
At the end of last year, I decided to do some strategic thinking activities for Goodjelly. I wanted to take all the clarity I’d gained by walking the talk of this endeavor—both through the weekly blogging I’d done for two years and through welcoming...
No. 136 | By Christine Carron
It’s high summer and perhaps the last thing you are thinking about is what you are going to be doing in November. But come the day after Halloween, hundreds of thousands of writers around the globe will be participating in National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a.,...
No. 135 | By Christine Carron
I help writers get their writing done with greater ease and speed using three strategic levers: smart process, grounded power, and inner kindness. I always lead with smart process, as most writers have not been exposed to a holistic set of productivity...
No. 134 | By Christine Carron
This week I launched Goodjelly’s Youtube channel. (Wahoo!) The experience was a delightfully maddening reminder of something that I coach writers on all the time: that getting something started pretty much always takes longer than you think it will.
In honor of...
No. 133 | By Christine Carron
The plan was to write a 5-part blog series about AI and the writing adventure, but one post in—last week’s—and I’m done. The research got a bit too much. Too unsettling. The opinion intensity in many of the articles swung from songs of...
