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Appreciate Your Disciplines

“Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.” – Robin Sharma

I love that I learned this so much. The thing is that it seems like it’s going to take forever if you take baby steps but then life just keeps on going and every day, you’re a small step closer to your goal.
I’ve said it a million times, discipline is a form of liberation. It takes away the pressure to have to do it all at once. It allows you to take small steps to reach a larger goal and eases the pressure over time. It also builds trust within yourself which builds your confidence to do even more.
I don’t really want to talk about writing every day right now because honestly, I wasn’t eager to write this evening. I want to write, yes. Even then, there are times when I have to write through wanting to do something other than writing. It’s challenging to maintain your disciplines even after a decade of it. So, if you’re still showing up with consistency, you should appreciate yourself for that. Consistency and discipline in people are hard to find. Honor that.

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Writer’s Life

Fingers dance across the keys

as my mind wanders too and fro

some lines might have to go

but then there’s lines

we need to hear about 15 more times

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

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And I Forgot to Mention the New Graphic Novel Section

There’s so much reading to be done that I think I might need to find a shortcut.

The thing is I feel like I missed something or I actually do miss the best most important part. For a little while I tried speed reading. What worked best for me was having a huge reading rotation and spending hours at the library regularly. Things are different now but also, I have better understanding of access to books that can change me while I read them.

Can we talk for a minute about how much more books are accessible now?

I can literally go on Project Gutenberg and read over 70k books for free from my phone or computer. We have Jstor where we have access to 10 free Journal articles a month which is honestly more than enough for one person. Now this one is a bit a touchy but there’s a lot of quality articles from good thinkers on Substack that you can read for free and also lists of amazing resources outside of the Substack community. YouTube has a ton of free audiobooks, especially the classics which I love. Plus, we still have libraries that are going above and beyond to make reading more accessible. There’s no more late fees, you can drop your books off at any library and they’ll be returned, and you can have books from other libraries sent. Not to mention their eBook apps where you can borrow an eBook. We did not have this as children and I’m so glad that I can take advantage of all this for my kiddos. It makes a difference in ways they don’t even know, and I like it that way.

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The Wreckage

Damp blades of grass and

a wreckage brought to the surface

from the raging seas

some things are left in the depths

and never again seen

but this wreckage

rose to the surface

and was laid out bare

splintered across the sand.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

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Care and Intention

I celebrated my birthday today and it was perfect! I couldn’t have asked for anything more!!

I’m growing older but I still feel like I’m just starting to learn to live in depth. So many goals have been smashed in 2026 and I’m still living and breathing. I don’t want to miss out while smashing goals though, I want to live while I smash them. And that might mean that goals take longer to reach but they will be reached with care and intention at the forefront. And I can’t think of a better way to live.

Here’s to another amazing year of living and breathing with care and intention.

Calm Before the Storm

Underneath my favorite blanket

behind the screen where all my thoughts

unfold into something for me to see.

Outside a storm is brewing.

Inside I’m winding down and ready

to think up something new.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

What Can You Create?

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life

There’s things that happen that are out of our control like this upcoming storm. It completely ruined my birthday plans. Completely out of my control but what I have in my control is what I can around the house to make my day more enjoyable.

We can write our stories how we desire. It can turn out to be something different once we finish but we get to decide whether it’s worth finishing or if it should be scrapped. Writing is the liberation from the limitations of this world. I believe that.

There’s so many limitations the world wants to place on us. From how we dress to the way we talk there are expectations we are expected to meet whether we want them placed on us or not. When we close the door to write those things drift away and we can sing and dance through our poetry.

The Buzz of Life

The light buzzes behind my 🐝

eyelids that weigh more 🐝

than the ad offers. 🐝

An accumulation of information 🐝

only to get lost somewhere 🐝

inside a mind that stretches 🐝

across the universe. 🐝

Do I float to retrieve it 🐝

or let it go?

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

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Our Goods are Our Dreams and Our Dreams are Our Goods

sweet berries buried

far beneath

the stones that feel immovable

with one’s own strength

confuse confound conflate

To each’s own

a treasure’s known

so let our wild spirits roam

-Saschia Jayne Johnson

Good Morning from Jayne.Press

It’s fall

Small talk: We have a Nor’Easter pending.

Gentle Reminder: I hope today you give yourself grace for being a full on human.

Yesterday’s post was a reminder that your published book isn’t the finish line. It’s just one more piece of the process that worth celebrating.

Thank you for your support 🙏