Going Analog

For the last three weeks I’ve labored over the talk I’m going to give this week at the ECHO Conference in Dallas. I will be talking about themes that are so near and dear to my heart that it would seem quite easy to distill them into a talk.

Not the case.

So with numerous blog posts and countless Text Edit files open (and with some helpful coaching from my lovely wife), I closed my computer and just wrote the thing out by hand.

Turns out I was getting way too bogged down by my sources (even if they were my own) and just couldn’t seem say what I wanted to say until I powered down, took up that which is mightier than the sword, and started putting pen to paper.

If you’re getting stuck, perhaps it’s time for you to step away from the screen and go analog as well.

My wife absolutely swears by it.