Fiction Scribe

Hello everyone!

Today I have talked to the lovely Ms. Judi Moreo who is talking about her achievement journal (pictured on the right). If the name Judi Moreo sounds familiar to you, I interviewed her previously. You can read the interview here.

Hello and welcome back to Fiction Scribe, Ms. Moreo.

It’s nice to be back. Thank you for interviewing me again.

In August of 2007, I interviewed you about your book You Are More Than Enough: Every Woman’s Guide to Purpose, Passion, and Power. You are currently on tour once more for your Achievement Journal. Could you tell us a bit about that and how it relates to your book?

Yes. The Achievement Journal is the companion to my book, You Are More Than Enough. It was designed to assist anyone who is wanting to find out more about themselves or anyone who wants to achieve their dreams and goals. Or both. It is a fast, easy, convenient way to record your wants, hopes, and desires, to write down your ideas, and to create the life that you’ve dreamed of.

What exactly is an achievement journal? What can people expect to do and accomplish with this journal?

When you write in this journal on a regular basis, it keeps you future focused toward the achievement of your goals and dreams. It will provide you with a record of your strengths and successes as well as an acknowledgment of the characteristics, values, talents, people, and things for which you are grateful.

What inspired you to create an achievement journal?

I’ve been working on this journal for almost twenty years. What inspired me was my own desire to have a journal that would assist me in my growth, so I would buy journals and there weren’t enough pages for my vision pages where I would paste in pictures of my desires. They wouldn’t have a place for me to write in my specific goals, nor did they ask me questions to help me clarify my goals.

There was no way in the average journal for me to measure how I’m doing in my life. Am I staying in balance or at least close to it? There was no way to reward myself or visually glance at the book and see what my accomplishments had been or when they occurred. Plus I’m not a person that writes the same amount every day.

In fact, some days I don’t write at all, so I’d end up with 5 or 6 dated pages that would become wasted because they were blank and at the end of the year, I’d have to file the journal away and yet there were empty pages in it, so I decided to design a journal that would do all these things for me.

I’d design…use it for a year, redesign…use it for another year…redesign, ask my friends to use it and make suggestions until I had something close. Then my friend and associate, Charlotte Foust, assisted me in designing the pages, writing the affirmations and working until we got it just right. I think we’ve finally got it, by George. It’s actually turned out to be everything I’ve ever needed and more. It’s now a self-empowerment tool.

What are your goals for this journal?

To get one in the hands of everyone who wants to achieve more success in their lives…whether that success is in their business or personal lives; whether it is financial success, spiritual success, relationship success, or just having more fun.

What are you working on now?

A new book for men and women both. So many men have purchased You Are More Than Enough and then asked, ‘Why did you write this just for women? This would apply to us as well, except for the part about how to dress.’

When you’re not writing novels, what do you do? How do you find time to write?

I actually don’t write novels (yet). I may give it a try soon. I have an idea for an incredible love story set in Africa during the apartheid era. I don’t actually find time to write. I make time to write. I have a very heavy travel schedule as my primary form of income is as a speaker/trainer. I have to work to make a living. Writing and sharing the knowledge I have is my passion and my recreation, so I make time for it…..most days.

I attempt to write four pages a day minimum, but some days the ideas don’t come….especially if I am sitting in an airport. Then other days, the airport or a passenger on a plane or sitting backstage, I’ll get inspired and write 10 pages.

Do you have any advice for writers?

Write. Write whenever you can, wherever you can …about what you feel passionate about. Write. Carry a journal with you (that’s why I made it this size) and write in it every day. One sentence or twenty pages. Make the journal work for you. Even though it’s designed for a year, I sometimes use one in a month and the amazing thing is the affirmations always seem to encourage me for what I’m working on at that moment.

Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you. I so appreciate the interview.