7-40 Challenge | Planning Week I caught myself saying something today that stopped me mid-sentence. I was talking about my work, and I heard myself say I don't just get to solve problems — I get to take care of people while I do it. I sat with that, because it explained something I'd never … Continue reading The Spirit of the Thing
Author: David Willis
I Hate Being Sick
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week I have a cold. It's just a cold — no deeper meaning, no metaphor, no lesson the universe is trying to teach me. I got sick. And I hate it. I've almost lost my voice, which is a special kind of cruel, because my whole system runs on talking. I … Continue reading I Hate Being Sick
The Answer Has Been Staring Me in the Face
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week Zig Ziglar said it decades ago: "You can have everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want." I've read that quote a dozen times over the years. Tonight it finally landed, because it answers the exact thing I've been stuck on for … Continue reading The Answer Has Been Staring Me in the Face
Stop Overproducing
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week A few days ago I wrote that posting my first piece of book promotion took five minutes. Then I tried to make the next ones and watched each one balloon to thirty. Here's what was actually happening: I was overproducing. Building stylized videos — my cover, my music, text timed … Continue reading Stop Overproducing
One Operating System
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week For many years I've run my work life on a system. At my day job, everything moves through a board — projects broken into tasks, tasks with deadlines and clear definitions of done, a daily rhythm of picking up what's most urgent and moving it forward. I don't think about … Continue reading One Operating System
