Manifesto vs. Catechism

A manifesto is a public declaration. It’s your however-many-theses that you nail up on the church door. It’s your platform to stand up and declare war on the status quo.

A catechism, on the other hand, is your answer to the question “who are you”. It’s a…

Are You Networking? Or Building Relationships

Why do people choose you over your competition? If you’re a professional — attorney, accountant, consultant, etc., this may be a difficult question to answer. Your credentials are probably virtually identical to just about everyone else in your…

And what do you do?

Most of the time when we ask this question we’re really trying to find out how much money someone makes.

“I’m a CPA”, or “I write software”, or “I’m a schoolteacher” gives me a pretty good idea what tax bracket you might be in. I can draw a lot of conclusions about…

Suffering and Misery

Suffering is not the same as misery. Suffering is outward focused — it is a form of love, desiring the good of the other. Misery is turned inward, focusing on the deprivation of self. One can suffer without becoming miserable, and one can be miserable without truly suffering. Misery asks…

Filter→ Consume→ Process→ Produce

Have we lost the ability to process and produce?

There is an overwhelming amount of information to consume online.

Driven by fear, I read, watch, and consume a deluge of information every day. The driving fear is that…

Fear of Writing

It doesn’t matter if anyone ever reads this.

What matters is that I’m willing to commit to show up every day and write something.

What matters is that I will get over the fear of writing. Fear of letting other people read what I have inside me. Fear…