I’m on the plane, getting ready to take off from Los Angeles. I’m exhausted. Wrung out. Normally when I come here I’m energized. On top of the world. I could almost float home. But not this time. This time I sink into my seat, just kind of wishing I was already home.
I’m feeling like I failed myself.
It’s summer, and I’m holed up in a Sunday School room at the Essex Congregational Church. This room has a piano, and the church has graciously allowed me to hang out in there to write songs. It gives me a place to go so I don’t disturb my family so much. (Remember the time before electronic instruments and headphones?) And changing my location tells me that it’s time to get down to work.
And write I do. All kinds of songs. I still have a folder with the hand-written lyric sheets.
Can you actually summarize the year with one word? Not really, but you can have a theme for the year that’s one word. That’s what we’re talking about on today’s episode. How my 2019 One Word impacted my life in ways I never would have imagined. And how you can do it yourself.
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| Subscribe in iTunes | Subscribe in StitcherI’m 4 or 5 years old. Sleeping in my bed, surrounded by my favorite stuffed animals. My dog, Ray (named after my grandmother’s dog). A large stuffed tiger. A bunny.
The next thing I know I’m screaming at the top of my lungs.
You know, I always hated the end of year performance evaluations I did on myself and my team. The format was so restrictive. It didn’t really tell the whole story. So this year, I turned the annual review on its head. I tried it on myself, and thought I'd ’hare it with you. You might want to try it yourself.
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