[DIGEST] Walking through hummus...

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Hi friends,

I’ve been feeling pretty good the last couple of weeks, living on the high of the Future of Publishing Mastermind and launching Writer MBA Con. Then, a series of professional and personal setbacks kept slowing me down until I now feel stuck in my tracks. I don’t feel like I’m going backward, and I am still much further than I thought I would be right now in the grand scheme, and much further than anyone has any right to expect.

After going fast for so long, feeling like you’re stuck in hummus is very frustrating. Of course, it’s always been frustrating. Even when I felt stuck in hummus all the time it was constantly frustrating. The difference was that I thought it was normal to feel frustrated. Now, I know things can move fast under the right conditions.

Still, it’s unpleasant, as you would expect living in hummus would be. I have to keep telling myself “This is the whole point of life, not the other stuff. We are alive for these inbetween moments, so be content with them…