December 2019 - Moxie Books

Episode 197: Sleepwalking Through Life

December 20, 2019
/ Podcast
/ By Vicky Fraser

Joe and I drink tea and discuss philosophy. Well, kind of. I reveal myself to be a bit of a dick, but am on a self-improvement kick. And Joe's problem with baggy grey sweatpants floats to the surface.

Are We Sleepwalking Through Life?

December 18, 2019
/ Author Blog Creativity Habits Inner Dickhead Mindset
/ By Vicky Fraser

Quick Summary...In an effort to make my brain dribble out of my ears, I've been thinking a lot about thinking this week.It all started when I went on a rant about Primark and ASDA. I stopped halfway

Why your projects are always late…

December 18, 2019
/ Author Blog Habits Inner Dickhead Mindset Writer's Block Writing Your Book
/ By Harriet Randall

The optimism bias — what it is, and how to beat it so you can finish your book“It’ll take me a week, max, to do the final edit on my book,” I declared.Oh, how I’m laughing, hollowly and bitterly,

The morning monster cure

December 15, 2019
/ Author Blog Habits Inner Dickhead Mindset Writer's Block Writing Your Book
/ By Vicky Fraser

Despite all my best intentions, I am truly horrible at getting up early in the morning.For a few months, I tried to be a 5 am person.There were a few of us in a mentoring group and we decided we wanted

Episode 196: Do Something Hard Today

December 13, 2019
/ Podcast
/ By Vicky Fraser

Joe and I are almost foiled by technology and then a ghost in the Dingle, before moving swiftly on to today's topic: hard things. (Stop being smutty.) There follows a lurid tale in which I relive a

Don’t rely on your friends

December 12, 2019
/ Blog Clients Creativity Inner Dickhead Mindset Preparing To Write
/ By Vicky Fraser

Guess what? Your friends and family probably won't pull out their wallets for your book.Why should they?I write this with no bitterness – or, at least, I don't feel scratchy about it anymore.A few

Derek the donkey thinks learning BJJ is hard

The Splendour Of Hard Things

December 10, 2019
/ Author Blog Inner Dickhead Mindset Writer's Block Writing Your Book
/ By Vicky Fraser

It’s much easier to laze around on the sofa than it is to stand up and do the thing you need to do.Right? I'm extremely talented at lazing around, half-in and half-out of a box of Quality Street.We’re

the 1%-ers

December 8, 2019
/ Blog Clients Creativity Inner Dickhead Mindset Preparing To Write
/ By Vicky Fraser

At the pole studio, we encourage our students to take photos and record videos.We all do the selfie thing; and not just because it's fun to show off a little sometimes to our non-aerial friends, who

Episode 195: The War Of Art, or, Bashing Bad Guys

December 7, 2019
/ Podcast
/ By Harriet Randall

Joe is wearing a dressing gown! A very snazzy, smoking-jacket-esque dressing gown, but a dressing gown nonetheless. If you only listen to the audio, you're missing out. Hop over to YouTube and have

You are not your business

December 5, 2019
/ Blog Clients Creativity Inner Dickhead Mindset Preparing To Write
/ By Harriet Randall

Sometimes, my husband Joe is incredibly insightful – despite the fact he insists he mostly has goldfish swimming around in his head.He pointed something out to me yesterday, and it got me thinking.I

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