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So... What does it mean to you?

Sometimes when I tweet I'm just throwing whatever out there, but other times I'm tweeting something that I'm really thinking about or chewing on. Well tonight, a dear friend of mine called me out on a tweet. I said, 

"Can't get this idea out of my head. We are the descendants. What we own, we never truly earned & our reward is undeserved."

He responded,

  "That quote you posted, what does it mean to you?"

I'm so glad he called me out on it. Because I think through stuff like this quite often, but so rarely do I take the time to write it down. I thought for a few brief moments about how I would respond and then just jumped in. Because I'm a geek for spelling I checked it over once, but other than that, this is what I came out.

RobinHood Ink.

I'd like to say I intended to save this post for a full year... but turns out I was too busy doing other things. Finally starting to catch up now!!

Over the past 1-2 years, I've gone through a process with Dot&Cross, a company I co-founded about 4 years ago with some great friends of mine and who continues to create amazing work in their new LA home. Overall, I'm very proud of everything we accomplished together. But after learning about my diagnoses and seeing the other partner's desire to move to Los Angeles to continue the business, I realized that it was time for me to move on. Hence the random references you may have caught over the past year regarding:

 

So this is my new gig.

I'm delivering rather similar work to what I was doing at Dot&Cross, developing new content on projects before collaborating with producers, directors, designers, writers, event planners, etc... This year I've had the pleasure of working with some new clients including wind energy companies, corporate creatives, and political memoirs. Also got to introduce a new TV show and begin ghost-writing a second book for one of my favorite clients.

So, I won't go on too much more about RobinHood Ink., but if you're interested you can find out more on the links below. Don't tell my clients, but one of my favorite things to do is continually look for input to keep my mind fresh with new stories and ideas. You can see this curated image/quote gallery through the sites below.

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A Thankful Entrance into 2012

This morning I woke up with the guilt that typically plagues me when I know I have so much work to accomplish that day. But since it's the first day of 2012, I gave myself the day off and in response to that morning dose of work-guilt was an overwhelming sense of thankfulness. I was just blown away by how much I have to be thankful for. 

In fact I decided to sit down and start writing the many many things I'm thankful for and couldn't help but to quickly blog and ask you to do the same for yourself. Start 2012 off, not with a list of things you resolve to do, but a list of things you've already been blessed with as you start this new year. Plus, you and I both know lists of resolutions are full of crap anyway...

I suppose one of the key things I'm thankful for today, despite the ridiculous list of blessings I've been undeservedly shown, is to be thankful for the struggles I face. No one actually learns anything about themselves by having their act perfectly together, and especially not from pretending to have it together. You learn who you are when things fall break down and fall apart; like a muscle being torn before it can start to heal itself and become stronger.

So I don't have to run from my life when things look like they are moving from bad to worse. Those are the times I have to get to lean in and admit I can't do it by myself anymore. Those moments are the best moments; even better than having it all together.

I won't bore you with the details, but I'm thankful for my wife, family, friends, church, job, clients, etc... I went into details on my list and you should to if you'll take about 10 minutes to work on your list.

But what I'm really struck by this morning is my thankfulness for Jesus whose death on the cross, as the old hymn says, provides both my pardon and my peace. Sometimes I feel that same need to 'work' for that pardon, similar to the guilt I feel about waking up to a job with a deadline. But I'm quickly reminded that the work has already been done, the pardon has been paid and the peace has been provided.

I hope you can take today off, be thankful and accept that peace.

(Sidenote: Not to mention if the Mayans, Nostradamus and Rick Perry are all right, this is your last New Year's day, so let's be thankful and enjoy it!)