The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.

Ask yourself to slow down.

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."

Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

And just dance a little.