Digging in deeper

# Chapter 350

Last chapter for book two. Another year has come and gone as my brothers birthday marks the beginning and end of these books. It had been a lesson in humility as this daily writing practice often fell into a diary-like prose, far far more than a leadership or thought-filled style that would capture the interest of any one other than immediate family members, and even that probably posthumously. No the powerful writer has to concentrate through the deepest distractions, the almost relentless noise, the most intrusive environments to produce anything of lasting value. Because that is the world we live in today. Quiet peaceful spaces in each day occur for almost no one. One has to make such a space to think and write inside one’s head. I fail regularly at this challenge and the writing proves it.

The powerful writer also doesn’t get locked into the specifics of a certain day nor the politics nor the weather. Instead this kind of writer is engaging ideas and processes and knowledge that will defy time, and be engaging to read on any and every day. It won’t matter when the material is published because the content will be timeless. Writing of such a level will depend far less on my typing speed and far more on my thinking ability. This is the true skill that needs honing and working and practice that we become people who think deeply and write succinctly and with a purpose that moves others to join in and work and think alongside of us.

So year two, day 700 plus of doing this, has once again largely taught me what I lack and shown me the chasm between what I aspire to do and what I actually accomplish. Time to dig in deeper.