First Cup of Coffee – July 15, 2024

How gardening is a great metaphor for life and creativity – accepting loss and treating that as an opportunity to plant anew, embracing change, and giving up control. Also, ways to be kind to ourselves.

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

Jeffe Kennedy

How gardening is a great metaphor for life and creativity - accepting loss and treating that as an opportunity to plant anew, embracing change, and giving up control. Also, ways to be kind to ourselves.

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law's special edition Tarot deck is here https://shadowscapes.com/Tarot/deckSE.php

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First Cup of Coffee – July 8, 2024

On knife-throwing and yoga – and why the process is the most important part, not the goal. Also, “rules” for submitting to traditional publishing, talent vs. discipline, gardening, and having the bandwidth to take on new projects.

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 8, 2024

July 08, 2024

Jeffe Kennedy

On knife-throwing and yoga - and why the process is the most important part, not the goal. Also, "rules" for submitting to traditional publishing, talent vs. discipline, gardening, and having the bandwidth to take on new projects.

The preorder links for RELUCTANT WIZARD, out August 27, are here https://www.jeffekennedy.com/reluctant-wizard

The posture-correcting sports bra I love almost more than life itself is here https://forme.therave.co/37FY6Z5MTJAUKQGA

You can buy tickets for Wild & Windy in Phoenix (February 2025) here https://www.wildandwindybookevent.com/phoenix-authors

Join my Patreon and Discord for mentoring, coaching, and conversation with me! Find it at https://www.patreon.com/JeffesCloset

You can always buy print copies of my books from my local indie, Beastly Books! https://www.beastlybooks.com/

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First Cup of Coffee – December 30, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 30, 2021

December 30, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

How to ensure that setting goals isn't "setting yourself up for failure," more on our relationship with observing ourselves with compassion and scientific distance, and what this has to do with knife-throwing. 

The blog post I mention is here (https://blog.jeffekennedy.com/2021/12/29/adjusting-those-variables-for-the-new-year/).

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First Cup of Coffee – August 9, 2021

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First Cup of Coffee - August 9, 2021

August 09, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

On what a great tool tracking your own productivity can be, how to treat the information like useful data without emotional investment, and what I've learned about myself recently from over a decade of tracking.

Find my Bonds of Magic series here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/bonds-of-magic), the Forgotten Empires trilogy here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/forgotten-empires), and the Heirs of Magic books here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/heirs-of-magic).

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First Cup of Coffee – April 1, 2021

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First Cup of Coffee - April 1, 2021

April 01, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

Teaching yourself not to be afraid of failure - and even to enjoy it! - and how I totally lied to you all and didn't run this revision according to the excellent advice I gave you only two days ago. Also: dealing with deadlines.

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First Cup of Coffee – November 14, 2019

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - November 14, 2019

November 14, 2019

Jeffe Kennedy

#PantsNaNoWriMo day 14: On reframing our idea of success, Taoism, and knife-throwing. I promise it connects. 

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First Cup of Coffee – December 14, 2018

 

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 14, 2018

December 14, 2018

Jeffe Kennedy

On working through the rough periods in writing a book, setting stretch goals, and learning to value failures as much as successes. Also tips on learning three-act structure by watching favorite movies and timing the beats. And tiny rant on THAT guy who thinks it's funny to joke about my name. 

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