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  • How to Overcome Writer’s Block

    How to Overcome Writer’s Block Find a question you find compelling. Answer it. Repeat. If it’s assigned writing, find a question about the topic that you feel is worth answering and answer it. This technique makes boring writing come alive. Josh P.S. This idea came from Jordan Peterson.

  • Tomorrrow.

    I’ll finish writing a blog post tomorrow. I’ll see you then.

  • Your Highest Possible Contribution

    The Highest Possible Contribution “Will this activity or effort make the highest possible contribution toward my goal?” Greg McKeown poses this question in his book Essentialism. The question is not whether something you might do is good or bad, the question is whether it is the highest possible contribution you can make. If you donated…

  • What Do You Really Want?

    What Do You Really Want?

    A Question From a Friend I recently talked to a friend about struggles I’ve been dealing with and he asked me: “What do you really want [out of life], Josh?” I didn’t know. He said, “We all know what we should want, but what do you really want?” I sat in my car after he…

  • Prayer: Your Steering Wheel or Your Spare Tire?

    Prayer: Your Steering Wheel or Your Spare Tire?

    Steering Wheel? “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” ― Corrie Ten Boom Do we come to prayer first and always? All throughout our day? Or only in our most desperate times when we can “only pray”? We can never do it perfectly, but oh how we miss out on the many joyous…

  • A Story

    I have a blog post written for this week, but it contains a story I’d like to get permission before I share.

  • What Is Important is Seldom Urgent

    “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” – Dwight Eisenhower

  • Demonstrate Experience Without Doing Work for Free

    James Laurain has found a brilliant way to demonstrate his copyrighting expertise with #linkedinadrewrites It’s one thing to tell someone you’re good at something, it’s another thing to show it. And it’s something else entirely if you can show it without doing their work for free. I’ll definitely keep this idea in my back pocket…