Science- & nature-loving writer, dad, & fitness maven. ❤️🔥 of a hype man. Relentlessly anti-cynical. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally. (he/him)
Apr 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Don't worry about writing the whole thing. Just write the next paragraph.
What does this paragraph need to do? Jot down what it needs to convey. Play with the order. Scribble that onto the page and see how it goes. Then revise until it's okay-for-now.
Repeat. Keep repeating.
I don't believe that one needs to outline extensively before drafting begins, but I do know that informal outlines—the kind I jot down on scratch paper in the moment and then throw away after they've served their purpose—help keep me from getting stuck.
2/n
Apr 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
[Really like this one. A few key quotations to follow.]
7 Myths About Meditation That Seriously Need To Die by @GaryBuzzardlink.medium.com/Wr2UBhqwVob@GaryBuzzard "Meditation is about being. It’s about resting in the awareness that you are conscious, breathing, and manufacturing thoughts like Henry Ford."
Mar 14, 2022 • 89 tweets • 18 min read
I have 1,700 items in my inbox. My preference, and my norm over the years, would be more like 17 items — or just what fits on one screen on my laptop.
The good news: a couple of weeks ago it was 4,800+ items, and I keep ratcheting it down every day.
2/ I don't know what it's like for you, but I find that my inbox balloons anytime I'm anxious about work. Whether it stems from anxiety, depression, ADHD, or whatever, it can feel overwhelming to go in and face whatever-it-is that's coming into my inbox.
Mar 11, 2022 • 38 tweets • 10 min read
After making my living as a writer for 20+ years—and dealing with the overthinking & procrastination so common among my kind—I offer this:
Set aside the meta-analysis of your life, career, heartbreaks, etc. for a sec, JUST STROLL ON IN TO THE WORK AT HAND, and see what happens.
2/ Here's the principle—for creative types, for entrepreneurs, for those seeking vibrant human relationships, you name it: ACTION WORKS.
Feeling scared? Take some action.
Think your work is crap? Take some action.
Lonely? Take some action.
Et cetera.
ACTION.
Apr 7, 2018 • 52 tweets • 8 min read
So who wants to hear about my week? Spoiler: it involves struggling to breathe, getting my insides fluoroscoped, and completely changing everything I eat and drink, including giving up all alcohol and caffeine, maybe forever.
You game?
Assuming your answer is yes, here goes:
Last Saturday night I started experiencing shortness of breath — never happened to me before — and I had no idea why.
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