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Awake at the Wheel with Jonathan Fields
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Ready to Change Lanes? How to Explore Without Imploding Your Life

Ready to Change Lanes? How to Explore Without Imploding Your Life

Wake-Up Call #39

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Jan 12, 2025
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👋 Greetings, Dohnuts! Jenny here :) I'm delighted to share my friend Jonathan Fields' post exploring the ol’ career chestnut to "stay in your lane." Sometimes it's an inner gremlin and at other times, it's a very real request from interested third parties. I love how Jonathan explores the tension inherent to life as a Maker: "Lanes are safe, but the longer I travel down them, the more likely they are to wreck me." Or when you're really Rolling in Doh, sometimes even your "safe" lane becomes a cul-de-sac; to keep moving forward, you must park the car and venture into the wilderness on foot. 👉 For more explorations like these, subscribe to Jonathan’s Awake at the Wheel Substack, and listen to our Spotify playlist of SPARKED podcast conversations here: https://spoti.fi/4i8cX6r -
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I started working on a novel. Ish.

October 21st, my friend,

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, says she’s doing nanowrimo, but in her own way (which, duh, is the way she does everything).

For those not in the know (meaning most humans with a life), nanowrimo is short for national novel writing month. Hundreds of thousands of people commit to writing a shitty first draft of a novel—some 50,000 words—in 30 days.

“Do you want to do it, too?” Jenny asks.

Let’s see…

I’m running two companies, in the middle of a big launch that’s consuming every free moment, producing two shows and recording three podcasts a week, building the team, flow, and product for a second big launch in February, and deep into my own 2x20™, running a symphony of experiments to help figure out what my next season of contribution is going to look like.

And, while I’ve written a bunch of books and dreamed of writing fiction for years, I’ve never written a word of it. Nor do I have the slightest inkling of what it’d take, or how to do it.

My life is alread…


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