Every time I start a new journal, I open it to the first page and scribble all over it. Why? It disarms the pressure of a brand new journal… These sacred, white pages… waiting for profound thoughts and notes to fill them. So where do you start? You scribble. Immediately make it imperfect. Not in some sort of sadistic way, but in a freeing way. How do you fight the fear of a blank page? You just start writing a few words. Even if you go back and disregard them later, they broke the seal. They got the wheels turning. And that’s exactly what this is.  Introduction and background. Been wanting to do this for a while but had never found a thread (through line) to connect it all. The vertebrae in my life felt like they were out of alignment. 

• Helping grow fruit on other people’s trees. 
• I’m constantly ingesting (and hopefully digesting) teaching from around the world. Leaders in faith, in marketing, in emerging industries, in family, in leadership… There’s not really anything that ties them together in my life, except for me. I find these things profoundly interesting, and they’ve impacted my life in incredible ways. So I want to share.

• A few rules up front. 
  • I promise that there won’t be some sort of regular schedule, or target length of these.
    • Sometimes they’ll be 10 minutes long. Sometimes they’ll be a 3 hour conversation with someone that I love. 
    • Sometimes we’ll put out one per week, sometimes a Tuesday morning, a Thursday night and a Sunday afternoon… 
    • I am forcing myself not to get hung up with details like that.
  • Which leads me to my next rule: I promise that I’ll never share anything when I’m not inspired. 
    • I know friends and marketers and pastors that feel sucked up into a hamster-wheel, needing to produce content incessantly, without ever taking time to breath and let life happen. 
    • I’m not going to waste your time with filler-content. I’m only going to share things that I realize are changing my life, and I want to share it with whoever might be interested. 
  • No fancy music or production. I spend my entire life creating brands and producing live events that are pixel-perfect and high-production… This will not be that. I want this to feel like we’re just hopping on a phone call. No auto-tune, no botox, no Instagram filters. 
• So that’s it: The first scribble in a notebook. Glad you’re checking this out. Hopefully it helps you find alignment in your life.