I keep track of dates as repeating tasks in Outlook, you know, as one does. You’d puzzle if you reviewed them; they’d seem pretty random and they’re there to remind me.
Recently, for example, September 18, the peak day of the Battle of Britain in 1940… Important to me because, at that time, my then 23-year-old not-yet-my-mother was living in London, England, during those times sleeping in London underground tube stations seeking shelter from Luftwaffe bombing.
I’ve set reminders for other significant events in my life, for the dates of major hurricanes and tornados, and for dates important to people I want to remember for their contributions to science or the arts or business. Dates that for, one reason or another, caught my attention.
And today, there’s one date that is particularly special. May 28, 1998.
“Who died or what burned that day, Nick?”
“Nothing that I’m tracking.”
“Well, that’s a relief and, by the way, today isn’t May 28th. Maybe you missed that when it came ‘round?”
True (that it came around) and false (I didn’t miss it). It just wasn’t time to celebrate it. Today is.
On that day – May 28, 1998 – I published the first Weekly Sales Thought. Twenty-seven years, three months, and three weeks later, today’s edition is issue number twelve-hundred. That’s just amazing to me. Twelve hundred! How could that be?
In college, I studied Hemingway’s writing. This week, I mistakenly thought that he said or wrote the sentence, “Write when you have something to say.” Turns out that he didn’t say or write that. He did write, “…I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about” and he followed disciplined, daily writing habits, setting word goals (500 words a day), writing consistently whether inspired or not.
An early mentor, a very productive writer, shared the same sentiment when I asked him how he produced so much work. He said, “I write when I feel well, I’m write when I’m tired, I write when I’m sick. I write”.
And here we are.
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