MandatoryPositive

Do you ever do the where’s George when you see it? Usually I just spend my dollar and keep it moving. Today,  It occurred to me that this project is important to someone somewhere and I can support it for free with minimal effort.   There are so many opportunities to support our friends, family by reading their blogs, watching their YouTube channels, leaving feedback, sharing their content, showing up the their events-yet most people choose not to. They claim they’ve been “meaning to,” and give hollow words of encouragement, but they don’t follow through with the support needed to make you a success. Oddly, your biggest support often comes from strangers.   In the land of the content creation, , numbers matter.  Your friends lie, your family members lie, but numbers-in this case  analytics, tell the God’s honest truth.  When your content gets 32 views, and your profile shows you have 1,000 social media “friends,” it doesn’t take a mathematician to show that...

Writing Prompt: What something that scares you that you did anyway?  I have often been told that you should do something that scares you every day to learn and grow. This morning I thought of my fear of heights, and decided today’s walking adventure would take me across the bridge from Illinois to Iowa. It’s not the first time I’ve crossed it. I used to do the road races where they blocked off the bridge and we walked across the actual street. This time, I was going to be on the narrow path designated for walking with nothing separating me from a plunge into the muddy Mississippi, but a thin railing.   In the mile and a half it takes to get from my house to the bridge, I almost chickened out. What was the point of terrifying myself?  Hasn’t life been scary enough? As I stepped towards the foot of the bridge,  I took a deep breath and focused on the path ahead. I  just kept walking. I almost forgot my promise to take photos, so I paused with a death grip wrapped ...