Five ways to slog through if you're having a hard day.

We all have bad days. I have a couple of tips for getting through a bad day where you have to show up anyway.

Anticipatory Anxiety in a creative

What do you do when you’re more afraid of the feelings you might have than the actual thing that might cause them?

Mental Training, Motivation, WritingMeredith LyonsMay 20, 2022Motivation, writing, mental trainingComment

Is there a perfect place to write?

Is there a perfect place to write? I think there is. And I think it’s different for everyone.

Motivation, Mental Training, WritingMeredith LyonsMay 13, 2022writing, Motivation, mental trainingComment

Things that are worth doing.

The world can be overwhelming and things can seem pointless at times. But there are always simple things worth doing.

Mental Training, MotivationMeredith LyonsApril 8, 2022ResilienceComment

Vacation? You mean go somewhere?

After being shut in for so long, what’s it going to look like when we try and step out? Vacations? Dinners? How’s that working for everyone?

How I got put on Twitter's 'naughty' list.

All about participating in pitch events, the good, bad, and the takeaways.

Motivation, WritingMeredith LyonsFebruary 25, 2022writing, Motivation, growthComment

Sometimes you gotta let something slide

To really excel at one thing, sometimes you have to let the rest slide. Just a little bit.

Motivation, Relationships, WritingMeredith LyonsFebruary 18, 2022writing, Motivation Comments

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Being able to give and receive feedback well is a skill that is worth developing. Not only will it help you grow your craft (whatever that may be) but you’ll be able to network and help others even more effectively.

Being Happy Inside Your Own Head

Wherein I discuss the joys and practicality of intentional daydreaming, unmarred by to-do lists and rumination. and recommend the practice.

Mental Training, MotivationMeredith LyonsSeptember 17, 2021mental training, MotivationComment

A Time of Transition

I’m reinventing myself yet again. Spring has always been a time of transition, and Beltane is a transition within the transition.

Creative Muscle

There was a time when I would write no matter where I was. At some point I lost that.

Fitness, Mental Training, MotivationMeredith LyonsApril 16, 2021Creativity, change, writing, growthComment

Earning the right to relax

Dissecting why I feel the need to overwork myself right before a vacation.

Being a Creative in Covid

For all of those out there in the habit of beating themselves up because they just. can’t. create.

Friends and Family, Mental Training, Motivation, resilianceMeredith LyonsNovember 13, 2020Resilience, Relationships, freelancer, CreativityComment

Finding Hope

Tasked with finding hope in the midst of a days-long election and a pandemic breaking daily records, I do my best.

Motivation, resilianceMeredith LyonsNovember 6, 2020Resilience, MotivationComment

Hooray, Hooray, I'm your silver lining

This was potentially my most difficult entry to write yet. Everything right now is so fraught with tension and honestly, that’s boring to write about unless you have a new perspective on it or a way to relieve it. So I went a different way.

I like to take my own photos, but the one illustrating this entry of me and Dean was taken by our friend Edith. I have only resized it. No filters, no crops. It’s perfect as is.

Heading into a spiral. Anyone want anything?

This isn’t a cheerful one this week. I always try to interject some cheer or at least an uplift to what I write, but this is for the people who may be feeling like I do and just need to read their feelings in someone else’s words and feel less alone for a few seconds. I will not give up.

Hanging on to pockets of light

It can be very easy to dismiss the tiny things that give us happiness. I think it all too important to recognize them right now.

Friends and Family, Mental Training, Motivation, Pets, resilianceMeredith LyonsSeptember 11, 2020Kittens, Resilience, recovery, RelationshipsComment

Practice makes better practice

One of my friends once said, “When you do something every day for years and years, you get better at it. It’s just the way of the world.” I continue to prove him right.

Fitness, Mental Training, MotivationMeredith LyonsAugust 21, 2020transition, trainingComment