How to Use “The Immersive Approach” to Make Big Progress on a Project

Three years ago, I found myself committing to something kind of ridiculous. I’m a writer–but I’d been struggling to finish short, 1000-word articles, and I hadn’t written a word of fiction in the previous three years. I tried to schedule specific times to focus and get stuff on paper, but other things (work duties, social […]

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How to Choose the Right Path When There are SO MANY POSSIBILITIES

To my great surprise, I’ve written two books. The first was non-fiction, and I spent the entire process worrying about making factual errors. I checked and rechecked (and rechecked) everything obsessively. At the very least, I wanted to be able to honestly say that I’d done my best to make sure any information I was […]

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10 Ways NaNoWriMo Benefits Multipotentialites

In working on a post about fictional multipotentialites, it occurred to me that one of the most liberating activities I have found as a multipod is writing, and that National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) takes place in November. What is NaNoWriMo? Many of you are NaNoWriMo veterans, but for those of you who don’t know […]

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A Multipotentialite’s Guide to Dealing with Anxiety (Plus the Process of Writing and Publishing a Book)

Note from Emilie: Hey multipods! As you may know, the Puttytribe is our little community where multipotentialites help other multipotentialites put their many goals, dreams, and projects into motion. We love featuring these projects on the blog, and sharing with you what your fellow multipotentialites are up to. I hope you enjoy this interview that Jo did with puttypeep, Neil Hughes. […]

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A Writing Prompt to Help You Achieve Your Goals

Now that we’ve moved into the new year, many of us are attempting to start off on the right foot by making resolutions. And yet we all know that resolutions typically don’t work. Most of these commitments to new habits last around a week. Many are abandoned by the end of January. As a multipotentialite, […]

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Multipod Friends, Don’t Let me Lose $1,000!

Dear puttyfriends, I’ve made a bet. I am going to complete my book – the big comprehensive book that’s going to bring the concept of the multipotentialite to bookstores (and people) everywhere – by July, 2014. If I finish the book, my good friend Rami is giving me $100. But if I don’t finish the […]

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A Letter to My Readers and Friends…

Dear Multipotentialites, Two and a half years ago, I launched Puttylike. At the time, I had no idea whether this information would be of interest to anybody. I didn’t know any other multipotentialites in my life. That word didn’t even exist back then. The only words I knew that might refer to our type were […]

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5 Tips to Get Your Rituals to Stick, or How I Finally Managed to Start Exercising (Finally.)

Sigh. Remember this blog post? It was my 2013 (anti-)goal setting post that I published around New Years. “Embodiment” was to be the theme of my year, and a big part of that theme was getting out of my head and “into my body.” Literally. I guess I got lucky with diet, because going Paleo […]

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