Rose Jermusyk's latest update for Puttin’ the Puss in Boots

Nov 30, 2016

First NEWS, Then "Research"

Tonight at midnight I am launching the campaign for this book! By my calculations it will then end on midnight at the close of February 28th.

I was looking over my writing schedule last week - which is progressing ever so nicely - and decided to pound out a quick campaign outline to decide whether the writing and the campaigning should remain separate (clearly I decide against that since I’m launching tonight). I also saw room to challenge myself a little over the course of December and maybe even January and then wrap things up with some surprise goodness in the midst of February.

For the December challenge to myself please follow me on Periscope where I will be posting once a day, every day, for the next 31 days.

All this is to say that I have plans for you, m’dears, just as the cat had plans for the miller’s youngest son.

and now Step Two: "Research"; UNTIL the cat starts talking, Mindset

In this week’s notes-n-quotes Josh Waitzkin (the real life Bobby Fischer) got in way more quotes than Seth Godin and I swear I have no idea how it happened.

“It’s only be being creative that you stimulate creativity.” Richard N. Skinner, Bare Bones of Story

“In performance training, first we learn to flow with whatever comes. Then we learn to use whatever comes to our advantage. Finally, we learn to be completely self-sufficient and create our one earthquakes, so our mental process feeds itself explosive inspirations without the need for outside stimulus.” Josh Waitzkin

“On how one orients himself to the moment, depend the failure the or fruitfulness of it.” Henry Miller

“Everything can be taken from a man, but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. if my name is not on it, I get up.” Benjamin Franklin

“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity.” Josh Waitzkin on valuing process before results

“It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.” Henry Miller

“To destroy is always the first step in any creation.” E. E. Cummings

“A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child’s playful obliviousness.” Josh Waitzkin

“Mental toughness is simply your ability to be flexible and adaptable with your strategy and actions, despite what’s happening to you, in the world around you or your circumstances.” Todd Herman

“Modesty is never a qualified substitute for passion.” Ash Ambirge

“Passion can overcome fear - the fear of losing, of failing, of being ridiculed.” Seth Godin

“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” Emma Donoghue

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of mind next to honor.” Aristotle

“To go off the path is to claim responsibility for what happens next.” Seth Godin

“Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.” Joan Didion

“It’s not a failure until you stop trying.” Debbie Millman

“A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“The way we saw it, responsibility means that each person has to carry the bell for himself. You, and you alone, must make your decisions, and you must live with them. No one should be thinking for you, and no one should be protecting you from the consequences of your actions. This, we felt, is essential if you want to be independent, self-directed, and the master of your own destiny.” Sudbury Valley School, introductory handbook