I’d love to see y’all.
I first got on Substack because I wanted a low-stakes way to just get my ideas out. They always had a great time dancing around in my head, but my insecurity kept the deadbolt to the apartment locked. So, very few people ever got a chance to hear them. Or read them. I spent most of my time convincing myself I was making the right decision by keeping these thoughts tightly tucked away.
But then on November 23, 2021, for reasons I still don’t quite remember, I took a leap and launched this little newsletter/blog. My first post was Thanks for the Push. It was just a brief shout out to y’all. I signed up for this site, and email subscriptions started to coming in. Up to that point, the only things I wrote on this site were my email and password. But even that was enough to have some of y’all say….I’d like to hear more from John. So I decided to let my thoughts dance in public. And once I took the deadbolt off the door, I realized how great it was. Not just let my ideas out, but to let you in.
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