As a life coach trained at JRNI, she believes in goal setting for creatives because, for her, achieving goals isn’t so much about accomplishing tasks as it’s going on little adventures. She attributes her unique point of view to her upbringing; as a dual Danish-American citizen, she was raised by older, non-conventional parents in northern suburban New Jersey. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
Charlotte Winters is an award-winning writer and life coach.
Having graduated Vassar with a BA in Theater and UCLA with an MFA in Screenwriting, Charlotte has written more than a dozen TV, film, and theater scripts and associate produced a History Channel show.
Now in its third year, COVID has launched us into a new era of work. While some people are going back to their jobs in their pre-COVID offices, others face a different reality: they have permanently adjusted to working from home, pivoted to a new position during the Great Resignation, or taken up entrepreneurship.
Look up “fear” on dictionary.com, and you’ll find that the primary definition is “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain etc. whether the threat is real or imagined.”
All too often, our routines can become a little too rote, making our lives feel a little too stale. But with the birth of a New Year comes new opportunities to find variety in the everyday.
The journal was sturdy and thick with a long, brown silky ribbon for a bookmark. Its pages boasted inspirational quotes I had never heard of before (“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings” – Eric Hoffer) and provided space for the eye to breathe. The font was modern, blue, cute. And on its sturdy fluorescent orange cover, it hollered “Okay Fine, I’m Grateful!”
Maintaining a daily gratitude practice is perhaps the fastest, easiest, and cheapest means of cultivating happiness. But what happens when you feel a little burned out from the same old gratitude journaling? Or, what if you’ve never practiced gratitude? Where to begin?