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Trust30 – #29 – I’m Just a Soul whose Intentions are Good…

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The prompt for this talks about posting an embarrassing picture of yourself online. Like the one I just put up. Look at that hair. The baldness. The unsightly… is that a chin? Are you sure? It just sort of… gently wanders town into the neck, doesn’t it? Egads.

I’m not going to compare myself to Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, or (heaven help us) Jesus. There’s really only one person I can compare myself to… and that’s my own vision of who I SHOULD be.

And you thought your potential audience was bad…

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Trust30 – #24 – The Call to Arms

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What if today, right now, no jokes at all, you were actually in charge, the boss, the Head Honcho. Write the “call to arms” note you’re sending to everyone (staff, customers, suppliers, Board) charting the path ahead for the next 12 months and the next 5 years. Now take this manifesto, print it out somewhere you can see, preferably in big letters you can read from your chair.

You’re just written your own job description. You know what you have to do. Go!

(bonus: send it to the CEO with the title “The things we absolutely have to get right – nothing else matters.”)

(Author: Sasha Dichter)

Welcome to my world. As the Managing Editor of FlagShip, and a co-founder of Flying Island Press, the team looks to me for guidance. This prompt is a good excuse for me to sit down and do just that – chart out the next 12 months, and the next five years. What is that going to look like? Heh.

Good question. I’ve been treating the Trust30 challenge as a personal issue – something to improve my own writing, and clarify my own plans for the future. But it’s probably time to expand that focus just a bit. In the meantime I have something to say about the path, and joy, and freedom.

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