I was so nervous about doing that. I was the same thing excitement and fear. I was

so nervous about doing that again it was the same thing excitement and fear I was excited about helping

people about telling stories and about becoming a better writer through the process of writing and self-editing.

I was scared out of my wits about the possibility of missing days, waking up late, not having enough time, all the things that anybody

would normally worry about when you take on a commitment like that daily emails.

This week I am going to experiment with something different.

Instead of bringing on a guest, I am going to use this episode as an opportunity to talk about my own journey through the context of the book

that I have coming out on May 25, 2021 called Knowing Where to Look.

108 daily doses of inspiration.

That book is full of personal stories, as well as classical stories,

anecdotes and observations that I have composed

over the last five years.

So I want to start by sharing with you the opening story of that book that I think you'll find very, very interesting.

And then I want to give a little bit more context to that story and share a couple of other stories as well.

And I'm doing all of this off the cuff, but I think it's really important to talk about

the background of these kinds of projects because we all have some sort of project or passion

that we think about or dream about or work towards.

And it's easy to hear someone who hosts their own podcast talk about

their book or mention it and feel like, well, of course they have a book or of course they have a podcast as if life

somehow slows down for people like me, but it's too busy to do these kinds of things for everyone else.

And the journey that I've been on is as busy, as uncertain, as messy as anyone else. I would say that's true for pretty much anyone that you may look up to or

admire whose work you may admire. The one thing that I have been successful at

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