[round]about
lol jokes there’s no way outside of this maize just humor me for a bit. now, where were we? ah yes, you were here…
whichever one it is, oftentimes you may feel lonely inside that feeling. you might even feel stuck.
it rents space inside you and the only thing that releases you forward might simply be putting it out to the world for someone or something to newton’s third law the shit out of it…or until you hear something said or written, in a certain way, by a certain person, perforating a hole in that dark place or shining the light on the path forward.
maybe what comes your way is completely new to you. but then maybe it’s not.
i tend to believe that the required wisdom to move you forward already exists. it’s deep within you and you’ve just got to become an archeologist excavating your own self-fluency. your job is to recognize when you’ve just been handed the right tool at the right moment to unlock your knowledge.
so maybe it isn’t actually that new — it just hits different.
after all…
the truth out of season bears no fruit.
you might even find some fruit here. or a nugget amongst the chicken scratchings.
maybe nothing i share with you is new to you or at all original, but dio mio, when the beat drops at the moment you’re ready to hear it, i hope it flows right through every crevice of your being and inches you forward.
ultimately, what i write should be treated as an invitation. an input.
there are no “you shoulds” — only a drip-feed of invites into considerations to be filtered through your ever-evolving context and your kaleidoscopic [insert your name here] colored glasses. example: juan colored glasses.
do with it what you will. you may even disagree. good for you. at least that makes two of us. but i’ll still write.
there are too many right ways to do something. too many shouldn’ts that could’ve and too many couldn’ts that should’ve. too many truths are existing at once. and from where i stand the truth doesn’t come from the source, but from the outcome it manifests when you experiment with it. so go experiment.
i’m not saying you can’t be stuck for a while.
maybe that’s where you need to be — to feel, to digest, to absorb, to contemplate. i just don’t want your to miss your checkout time and outstay your welcome inside that cage.
so free range then?
pretty much.
i went through twenty-plus (20+) names to try and figure out what to call this collection of consciousness. but each name kept cornering me into a certain topic. don’t put baby in a corner.
i’m too human, too variable. i’ve done too much and the best is yet to come. too much change and evolution exists inside one lifetime and my convictions hold a theme but they are ever-changing…except my first and only immutable one:
strong convictions, loosely held: all other convictions are subject to change should new information and data nudge my perspective into an evolved direction
so i wanted a name that gave me the freedom fingers and my own invitation to fleeting inspiration. about anything.
inspiration that typically hits when i am writing for someone — those that come to me (including me coming to myself) with challenges or opportunities across life, relationships, business, health or wherever the stuckness exists. so i write to them. and sometimes it acts as a note to my future self.
good segue…
maybe i’ll write about my reflections on helping build a billion dollar company, or stepping away to enter a period of unbecoming, the relationship to thyself, the relationship to thy neighbor, my shadow, the difference between belief and confidence, decision-making, nomadic life, health, leadership, the many faces of customers acquisition cost, sabbatical life, contribution margin, the perfect almond croissant…whatever.
point is, i love human nature. its subtleties exist inside the nooks and grannies (you read that correctly - there is a lot of wisdom in between those wrinkles) of our interactions with each other and ourselves. each post will carry an intention of moving you forward. the topic covered may not even be related to your specific stuckness, but maybe it carries an insight that might just rectangle peg that oval hole…hard.
you: so you’re basically going to write about anything. isn’t that the opposite of marketing: carefully selecting your target, picking a niche, create the identity of that specific avatar to attract the right listener, reader, consumer, human and grow your audience? don’t you know that “if you’re trying to be for everybody, you’re effectively being for nobody?”\
me: sure i agree with that. i used to teach it — terribly hypocritical. alas, like i said, don’t put baby in a fucking corner.
free range is an invitation
not like one of those from a friend who expects you to be at their event even if you’ve had a draining day at work or life got the better of you that day and their persistence is making you feel guilty. (just remember it’s you who is the one feeling the guilt).
it’s more akin to one of those gifted-to-you-all-access-VIP-passes to a thought festival — you didn’t pay for it, you can access any area, at any time, you don’t have to go to everything, you don’t even need to go at all. you have free range to drop in and drop out whenever it feels right for you.
free range is a creative endeavor in the pursuit of collective unstuckness. my ego is wired to help, but i’m not here to grow an audience.
i only need a few solid 1st degree connections. because if i help one person and that one person takes an evolved perspective into the world and creates something tangible that helps their audience to the tune of many more. then with that, i am content.
and audience doesn’t necessarily mean digital following — it could be your family, your partner, a friend, your dog (notice i didn’t say cat). anyone who’s leased their attention to you.
why lease to you?
reasonable question. remember, this is just an invitation. drop in. drop out.
i’ve never been one for CVs — but in case you need one click here.
otherwise, if you want little invitations to spark reflection in your inbox every now and then thumb dat button below: