I like starting new things.
I’ve always been two halves of a whole. Right brain / left brain. A writer and systems thinker. A pleaser who challenges. And lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the ways my puzzle pieces fit together, and where my energy goes and comes from, and about how I might be able to reduce the friction in my life and work.
And I’ve always wanted to try to podcast. I’ve been practicing in the car and on my dog walks, recording talks to myself that nobody will ever hear.
So this morning I walked into a diner for breakfast with a copy of The One-Straw Revolution, a book about permaculture, thinking I’d get inspired to spend the day on my long list of chores in the garden and as far from the computer as humanly possible.
But just before I stepped into the diner, I started thinking about my thinking work.
I thought about how strongly I’m wired for thinking; and, for the doing that comes after, but the thinking comes first.
We talk about different kinds of work a lot, with my husband’s two girls (8 and 10). We talk about service work, and building work, and selling work, and paper work, and community work, and doing work, and conference call work and meeting work and because I do a lot of it, we talk about thinking work. I struggle to find time to think — modern life isn’t exactly designed to encourage inquiry or thought. My dog walks, driving time, waiting time — the in-between times — I realized a few weeks ago that those are my windows to do my best work.
And I’m unsatisfied just thinking.
I think, then like to do, too.
So I stepped into the diner and didn’t open my book. Instead I thought about how I almost accidentally started a business the other day, which surprised (and surprises) me. I don’t have time to do it right now, so there’s a pin in that project. But I decided if I’m not going to do that, I need a project — and to podcast about it either way. So while I ate my hash browns I scribbled out some notes that became one of the first episodes of the From Think to Do podcast, a place for thinkydoers. It’ll take me awhile to get it recorded and published, but that’s what I’m starting today. And, I’d love for you to come along for the ride.
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