The Goodjelly Blog
By Christine Carron
There are two important truths about productivity that are key to creating unstoppable flow. First, productivity has more than one speed. Two, we each get to decide what is the right pace for us at any given moment.
In many productivity circles, however, what I just put forth t...
By Christine Carron
Are you stingy when it comes to claiming creative wins? If so, you’re not alone. It’s a common phenomenon. Unfortunately, celebration miserliness has a negative impact on creative productivity.
Despite celebration stinginess being very (very) common, most of us don’t perceive ...
By Christine Carron
A powerful action you can take on behalf of your creative adventure is to embrace clarity. Clarity sometimes shows up as grand flashes of insight. Those are valuable experiences and to be cherished, for sure. There is, however, a humbler clarity, built day in and day out—even mo...
No. 164 | By Christine Carron
It’s that time of year. The start of school is almost upon us. Can you feel it? The new school year energy? I can. I will even bravely acknowledge my extreme childhood nerdiness quotient by admitting that I loved starting school each year. Adored it. For me the joy of ...
No. 158 | By Christine Carron
Sometimes it feels like the only certain thing on the writing adventure is uncertainty. We might work for years on a project only to abandon it when we realize it doesn’t work. We may get a project done and then experience rejection after rejection. We may get the publ...
No. 153 | By Christine Carron
A few days ago, I went to get a sandwich. The sandwich place is in the next town over. The normal way to get there takes me through a stretch of gnarly local traffic.
On a whim, I decided to get lost on purpose. (This was actually possible as I left my cell phone, mea...
No. 152 | By Christine Carron
I have been on a mission to improve my pushups this year. (Translation: To actually be able to do at least one solid, full-plank pushup.) I’ve made progress, but not as much as my ego would have preferred.Â
The source of my struggles? My right shoulder. It has felt pi...
No. 147 | By Christine Carron
Are you getting as much craft practice in as you want? As much as you know would help you grow as a writer and achieve what you want on the page? If not, you are not alone.
Many writers want to have a regular craft practice but they also want to churn out their next d...
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 effective and freeing Goodjelly’s tools w...
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 I’m not just ...
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 salvation to dirges of doom.
I u...
No. 128 | By Christine Carron
In an entrepreneurial group I’m in, a woman shared that she had launched a sales campaign for a new program. That meant, among other things, she’d thought through the program itself, made the sales page, designed the email sequence, was promoting it on social media, et...
