Back to the Blog….
It has been over 2 years since I followed the advice I have given many times. When talking with friends and acquaintances I often encourage them to write, to publish, to get out there with their ideas. I have read many blog posts and many books that encourage such action as a way to build a practice of exploring your own thinking, but for way to long I have been giving in to “The Resistance” as Steven Pressfield calls it.
I read a great article yesterday while sitting at my daughter’s swim meet that got me motivated once again.
https://link.medium.com/cIM9QrtIU3
The article mentions the power of compound interest of writing which makes a lot of sense to me and is something I believe in greatly when it comes to reading.
I have restarted my journaling practice inside of the DayOne Journaling app and am enjoying the interface and the reflections that it encourages. It’s such an easy app to engage with and the design is sharp.
And although my reading practice really hasn’t taken a sabatical like my writing practice did, what I haven’t been good at lately is reflecting on what I am reading and harvesting the lessons from my reading. I aim to change that…
I have been on a bit of a family health focus with my reading lately.
I’ve always been a fan of Kelly Starrett and his mobility practice, but I really enjoyed this article about taking a contrarian approach to raising a family as it relates to sports, fitness and movement. Committing to an hour of “play” a day seems like an impossible task given kids over scheduled lives these days. I suspect it is very similar to sleep in that investing in it has a greater return on investment then the time allotted to it.
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