Christin's Behind-the-Scenes Sunday 🎥
Online Writing as Spiritual Practice, Personal assistants, Weaverville, 12 Favorite Problems
Dear Ones,
Happy Return-to-the-awkward-few-weeks-before-the-Holidays!
3 Bullets of Updates:
Online Writing is a Secret Form of Spiritual Practice
I'm proud to finish this essay with Michael Dean using The Writing Studio method. The intent of the piece is to address how one can integrate "normal life" with a spiritual practice--in this case, identifying the relationship between the Noble Eightfold Path in Buddhism with writing online. My ultimate goal is to open up this conversation in popular culture, where we can talk about these topics in a non-woo-way. (Nothing wrong with woo, just that my brain gravitates towards the practical/what-we-actually-do!) My goal is to figure out how to reach a wider relevant audience (Buddhist print/online magazines.) Do you have any ideas/know anyone?
Live Notes: How to Work with a Personal Assistant
I watched this 2-hour-long video with David Perell and Rebecca Olason and took some notes. My personal conclusion is that while I'm working towards reaching the place to operationalize my main work, I can begin eliminating and automating rote work where possible. The shiny dime is to view SOPs as organizational capital, rather than just boring documentation.
We were in Weaverville, CA for Thanksgiving!
Weaverville is a quaint small town in Northern California known for its steelhead trout fishing on the Trinity River. It was a restorative time away in a tiny cabin. (My friend Louis and I joked about how it's really a vacation from the stress of home clutter, haha!) Yuhong caught her largest steelhead yet, while I fed horses and petted cats.
3 Bullets of Vulnerability:
Following up to the last newsletter, I am committed to spending more time on Compassion Accelerator and writing on Buddhism, and down-scaling time elsewhere. (Reply if you want to know the deets!)
I’ve updated my 12 Favorite Problems to reflect the shift in focus for 2022.
My new life questions are:
How can I use play to motivate myself?
How can I reach people who are receptive to/seeking spiritual discussions?
In doing so, I am able to let go of these questions that no longer concern me:
How can I share with others what I perceive may be of benefit and encourage uptake, without being a snake oil salesperson (or having the fear of being perceived as one, stop me from sharing?)
How can I worry less about not being a perfectly enlightened being equipped to talk about spirituality, and embrace that I'm a flawed human being instead?
I’ll journal more to document these shifts: overall I am shifting my energies from “wondering if I’m doing the right thing/equipped to do the thing” to “how to keep doing the thing!”
What are your 12 favorite problems? If you already have them listed, are any of them changing for 2022?
Warm Wishes,
Christin
Re: Writing Studio, what a super essay you churned out!! I felt like you were taking me on a journey of your thinking and I didn't always know where you were going, but you communicated confidence and directionality throughout the piece that made me feel safe in your writing. Thank you for sharing.