A broken fan belt?

Although I hoped it wasn't true, recently it occurred to me that at least some people receiving my e-newsletter, A New Perspective, wondered why they got it - if they thought about it all before hitting the delete button. I say this because so much of what comes into my inbox falls into that category. Am I that much different than others?

And it occurred to me that I've felt constrained by attempting to tightly link what I wrote in A New Perspective to building my business. This was a self-imposed requirement to use the newsletter to build paying work for myself. Guess what; it hasn't worked. Hmmm....

Finally I was rarely satisfied with what I wrote for the newsletter. When I was, you seem to have been too, judging by the comments that came to me within hours of publication. And when that happened I found myself walking my own talk; my "work" had moved beyond simply checking off a task to be done and slipped into the realm of  the "hard fun" that I espouse.  

So I had my own broken fan belt. I needed to re-imagine A New Perspective or drop it. I concluded that A New Perspective will morph into a blog and it will:

• Consider events, ideas and environments
• Give voice to connections I see among them and questions that surface. This won't always fit a purely business-driven purpose. 

I will write when I have something to say, not on an arbitrary schedule. 

You control when (or if) you check in.

I will label posts so that you can sort through posts quickly. 

And you, dear reader, can let me know if you see something that resonates with you. 

So with a new fan belt in place, the journey resumes...

(Thanks to my friend and colleague, Paul Richardson, graphic facilitator, for the image at the top of this post. See his work at: http://www.abbeyparkart.co.uk )