[#53] I've Written My Newsletter for One Straight Year, Here are 12 Things I've Learned

So let's talk about following the white rabbit.

About two years ago, I had a picture in my mind's eye that was talking to a group of people at a retreat saying, quote, like back in my 40s, I was very busy and up to my eyeballs in marketing work.

And it was so busy.

And it was talking as if that season of my life had passed.

So that was really interesting.

This wasn't some like heavenly revelation like, the light of heaven knocking me off a horse or something like that.

It was more a daydream.

I daydream a lot, especially when I go to my massage therapist.

I usually go once a week and she digs her elbow into my left shoulder.

And I don't know, it triggers like access to some apparent hidden part of my psyche.

You know, Neo encountered the matrix through a computer screen.

I guess I encounter it through the 10 out of 10 pain that I experienced during a deep tissue massage, but I love it.

And experience has taught me that when you get an idea like that, no matter how it comes, you should act within the lifetime of that idea, which is usually very short or it tends to die out.

So I bought a domain a couple of years ago, which I've never used as a sign of simply honoring that prompting.

And all these months later, here I am writing.

Now, I have no idea how this is all going to pan out, but I have decided I'm going to be a writer.

I will continue to share my newsletters here on my podcast.

And some might say, well, haven't you written books? Aren't you already a writer? Aren't you already an author? But conversions and algorithms and hooks, they just don't feel like a writer to me.

I'm talking about writing, writing.

And if I want to make money, this may be the worst time to commit to being a writer.

Name two letters you're more sick of than A-I.

But if I want to have a real connected life with myself and with other humans, this may be the best time to be a writer.

And money or not, I will write because it makes me a better person.

happier, more useful person.

I do believe that.