“What does ‘abandon’ mean?” my daughter whispered to me during Palm Sunday Mass. A more popular translation of Psalm 22, which Jesus quotes on the cross, is “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” which he says in Aramaic, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (Mark 15:13). “Maybe even Jesus felt alone and scared to…
Archives for March 2018
Getting in the Mood for Creativity
There is no such thing. The environment will never be quite right. Your emotional state is never going to be perfect. If you wait for inspiration, it is likely never going to come. Instead, push through. Show up, sit down, and type (SUSDAT). The magic happens most of the time after you show up. You…
Become What You Pretend to Be
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters I find this truth to work in two ways, both good and bad. If you pretend to be someone successful when you are just starting out and work hard to turn that dream into a reality,…
Prime Time Newsletter
While I’ve had email lists for years, I only recently started sending a regular email newsletter to them. In the past my strategy had been to email the lists when I had something interesting to share or when I was launching something. Unfortunately this meant frequent gaps that could be weeks long. And that meant…
Find Your Whale Readers
In a recent podcast, Seth Godin talked about whales. He’s written about it before on his blog: “The management of whales.” A whale is a person that consumes far more than the typical person. In 2014 23% of Americans didn’t even read a book. There are some, however, who read more books on their own than…
