Go Back to the Beginning

Day 67 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge I finished Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work today. In the last chapter, he says something that stopped me mid-stride on my walk: When you’ve learned something really well, go back to the beginning. Learn something new. Do it in the open. Do it in public. Show your … Continue reading Go Back to the Beginning

Flow and Stock

Day 65 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge I started reading Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work today. To me, he sounds like a modern-day Seth Godin — an artist who’s figured out how to say, very poignantly, not just how he found success, but how he built it. And he shares it in a way … Continue reading Flow and Stock

I Knocked

Day 63 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge I’ve known my whole life that I’m creative. Or most of my life anyway. Whether singing or dancing or writing stories or whatever the case may be, I’ve known that I’ve had the creative bug. Like many people, I can write things and put them out there. … Continue reading I Knocked

1,200 Letters

Day 62 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller tells the story of the first time he met Bob Goff. Miller and his friends had been paddling through an inlet somewhere near British Columbia when they came across a house tucked back in the water — a … Continue reading 1,200 Letters