Hey Y'all,

So I recently finished that Challenge I last emailed you about. The one that was "about" the end of the year. I led a group of people through my 2nd annual End Of Year Challenge for 60 days and have come out it and into this year with a next thing I want to do.

Last year it took me until the end of February to start anything so I already feel ahead, while also feeling behind! I think that's just how I always feel. Behind. Or at least never ahead. And no those "you're right on time" quotes don't help me.

If you've been following me for awhile, you know it's not uncommon for me to lament about not posting more, about not sharing more and wanting to. I call it Exhibits, showing my work which is my life. The number of times I can pull out a line from my stuff that goes "I've made a commitment to writing and publishing more." is embarrassing.
Embarrassing because I feel like I still and still and still just have not done that!
So here I am declaring it again: I'm going to Exhibit more.

Part of the point of doing a Kymology Challenge is about finding things that work for you. Challenges are entirely, ultimately about "figuring yourself out" in various ways that change. So finding standouts and insights and gold "nuggets" is what it's all about. What I found for my self this time has something to do with email being a good format for me. There have been not infrequent rounds of obsessing about which platform to exhibit in. Social media, IG, FB, Substack, my own website, blogs, YouTube, Patreon, and so on. I've done starts and trials in all of these places, never staying course at the level I must have in mind, because I rarely to never feel satisfied with what I am doing in the way of Exhibiting my Work.

So this is my very boring email to tell you what I'm doing because what I also can't do is start anything without a full set up that includes an explanation in an announcement. Those sayings that say hustle quietly and don't talk about what you're doing until it's done, do not apply to me. *insert shrug emoji.

Usually even this part would hang me up with things like figuring out why you'd care about what I'm doing, how to say it in an interesting way, to share the stuff that would matter TO YOU and not the repetitive stuff of the tune of what I've already said before and before and before.

But what I care most about right now is just doing this thing.

The EOY Challenge ended 6 days ago and for every day of those 6, I have been obsessing and trying to figure out what to plug into that time! Like literally the space I made by doing the Guided Challenge stuff every day for 60+ days. I spent the first 1-2+ hours every day doing that Work. Literal space was made in terms of TIME that can now be used for something else, if I do it. I have been trying to NOT break that streak or lose that momentum while I figured out what I was going to do which is this.

This is my not sexy email telling you what I'm doing and letting you know you can sign up to be on the receiving end of this thing. This thing I'll be doing for the year. And I promise, all future emails following this very not compelling email, will be "sexier" and more interesting than this one. If no one signs up, I'm still emailing. I just need a receiving end for the writing I want to do.

a year of inspiring

A few days ago, during this limbo time of figuring out what to plug into the space I MADE by doing the last Challenge, I wrote this as the first line in Morning Pages: "It's been awhile since I've been called inspiring." And that became a whole thing, that I am now mooring with.

So it will be "a year of inspiring", kind of like Shonda Rhimes "Year of Yes", which I have never read and have ideas about "Year of NO", but the part I got from it is YEAR OF. What do I want this to be the year of? And can I pick anything so grand and relevant that would be worth doing for a whole year? That's where this came from.

Don't break commitments you make to yourself, is a big thing for me.

External accountability is not, but I'm starting to wonder if it is. Why else are these public proclamations what I do?

so coming to you by The Kymology Daily , here we go.

daily emails for a year

not quietly

not maybe

not in silence until it's done

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