What you don’t know about me is that I like Mondays. To me they reek of possibility. Every Monday I step into the week filled with the inner knowing that I’m going to live my best life (I won’t tell you how short lived this feeling tends to be but the hope remains!)
Another thing you don’t know is that I am a very slow writer. I’m amazed at the prolific, and excellent, writers who take a couple of hours to write an essay. This kind of time frame boggles my mind. One of the tools my writing teacher encourages us to use to improve our skill is to write with a constraint - for example time. You give yourself a set amount of time to complete the task. Eek! I’ve been with her for over a year and have yet to pull this off even once. But I continue to practice.
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The idea of a time constraint suggests we consider one of the interesting laws of the universe that govern our life whether we are aware of it or not.
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