“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
~Mark Twain
I recently came across this quote and it might just be one of truest statements I’ve ever read.
If you choose not to read, you choose not to grow. If you choose not to read, you choose ignorance. Truth.
Our world is losing touch with reading. Everyone wants to “listen” to books & podcasts while they multitask. This is a productive additional way to learn but it doesn’t replace reading. (Don’t stop listening to EML Radio:)
But books allow us to become the story. Books help us step outside of ourselves and become the story. I recently heard these powerful words...there is a father between the pages. 🤯
Stop and think about that! With every page of a book you have the opportunity to learn in several hours what it took someone else decades to live and learn.
If you say you “don’t like to read”, you are saying you don’t like to learn. That’s very sad.
Rethink your reluctance to read. Commit to a reading goal for each month. Start small if necessary...30 minutes per day. That’s what is required in EML Strong Start. I included this in the program for a reason.
Books are your doors to a better life. Open them!
Your happiness is not a gift given to you by others.
Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eml-radio-talking-truth/id1498113483?i=1000558947971
Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
I will resume the live recordings over there, starting with our first call on Friday, March 3rd at 9am/12pm. Invitations to join the Zoom calls will go out on Substack. Mark your calendars!
Also, be sure to download the Substack App! I love the app and find it so helpful in organizing content I want to read later by keeping it on my dashboard.
See you on the other side!
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
