Archive for April 2019

My sister, April, was helping me in the final stages of getting my manuscript to the printer. This involved a number of rounds working with a designer on the book layout, standardizing the formatting, checking for errors, and finalizing everything for print. In the middle of the process, we shared this text exchange:

My husband and I are on a short vacation this week.  Yesterday I got a text from my kids.  They snapped this picture and sent it to me. My book had arrived from the printer. I stared at that picture for a while, amazed to see my dream in front of me in actual, physical form.  Honestly, it felt a little miraculous.

Yesterday I was talking to a friend.  She reminded me of something she heard once about Tony Robbins. Of course it might just be an urban legend, but she said that she had read that Tony Robbins gets in a cold pool every morning just to remind his brain who’s in charge.  She said he takes this optional plunge into very cold water as a way of telling his brain, “There’s me and then there’s you over there, brain.  I’m the boss.”