Taking Aim

It’s a new year! The gyms are full of new enthusiastic members, the trails full of new hikers, and the greenways full of rude bikers who don’t announce their approach! Have you noticed that around February those new faces and the numbers of new people start to drop off dramatically? Why? The main reason that most people quit or drop out of their new goals… →

Hit Reset

For many of us, 2020 was a year that saw upheaval in ways most of us never imagined possible in our modern times. I saw my job and my health threatened by the same invisible cause. I watched as my social connections frayed as video chat replaced sitting beside someone and giving them a hug. I watched in horror as our country cracked under the… →

Touch the Stars

Reach for the stars. It’s what I like to tell others to encourage them to get out there and accomplish their goals! Reach for the highest possible achievement you can! Most of us will not reach the stars, many of us will struggle just to get the basics down, and you know what? That is alright. The final aspects of goal setting make sure that… →

To the Summit

One more. Just one more rep. One more minute. One more sketch. We press against the constraints of our goals, seeking to improve, to go further. If there is anything that is constant in our lives it is that we know how to measure it, even if it on a subconscious level. One more day, one more year. We have devised a way to divide… →

This is Your Year

We are back! That’s right, with the start of a new year comes new posts and new ideas from the Dream Anvil! My long hiatus from the site was a side effect of preparing for and then going through my surgery and recovery. In short, everything went smoothly! Last year was a huge, crazy, tumultuous, and amazing experience and I cannot wait to tell you… →

New Year, New You

This past Tuesday you may have woken up, groggy from a bit to much fun the night before, determined that this was going to be your year. This is going to be the year you get your stuff together, the year you exercise more, the year you eat better. This is the year you will start a new project, a new job, a new romance.… →

Taking Aim

I take my position at the line, trying my best to stay relaxed and focused. The nock of the arrow makes a satisfying click as I position it on the serving, just below the nock point. I raise my left arm, careful to hold the bow just so; elbow pointed out. I inhale as I align the sight with my target, my fingers draw back… →

A New Year Begins

The New Year is now upon us and if you are anything like me it seemed to have almost of came out of nowhere and left as soon as it arrived. I simply cannot believe that it is 2018 already and yet here we all are. As many of us are like to do the turning of the calendar bends our vision towards the future.… →

Undeterred

It’s the end of January, and things are not going as planned. I have already missed one of my target word counts as well as my weight loss goal. Perhaps you are in the same boat as me. Maybe you haven’t even started some of your goals. Maybe you think some are just impossible or not for you. If we want to achieve our dreams… →

Make it a Habit!

While it is great and important to have goals and plans to actually accomplish them, the hardest part is yet to come. Actually doing it! One of the things that has really made an impression on me was when I was just starting out as a writer. It was hard. I never seemed to have time to write and my skill at combining words into… →