Real Academics Blog

Dear Real Academics, I've often hear and have written about how difficult it is to START writing and ways to overcome that difficulty. Here, I want to explore why it may be difficult to KEEP writing and solutions to overcoming that specific difficulty. (1) You know what to do, but you don't want to do it.   Years ago, my mother's good friend (Dr. Barbara Warren) self-published a book titled, Do What You Don't Want To Do: Achieving Excellence as a Procrastinator. Mind you, this book was written by a MULTIPLE time IronMan winner, ultra-marathon runner, and woman who had overcome an incredible amount of obstacles in life through her discipline and commitment to her calling. In fact, she and her twin sister, Angelika, were featured on the documentary, Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 ,  a documentary about a yearly 135 mile race across Death Valley, California in JULY (Angelica is on the cover). You can watch it for free on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl3...

Dear Real Academics, We have been unpacking our house for the last month. Let me preface this by stating that prior to this move, all my other moves had been "college-student" moves, meaning, the most amount of boxes I have ever moved was 14. Yup 14 small boxes. Yup. No furniture and no car either. In my last big move, the car salesman met me at the airport. Let's just say this move was different.  Two large PODS later and 10 months of waiting on a house we are FINALLY in a house and FINALLY unpacking! (Hey, if you didn't try to buy a house in 2022, then definitely check out this hilarious  link   to get a sense of what it was truly like...I literally cried tears of laughter when I watched it...but come back and finish this blog after you watch). Here is my favorite picture of our move. Rocky, our rescue pup, is sitting outside the front of the house watching the first POD arrive. I thought I'd be excited to unpack. In fact, everyone told me it would be like Chris...