Seth Godin
best selling author
Having decided to start my own 30 Dream Days Challenge on 8/28/13, I have repeatedly and for extended periods of time thought about the people who have pushed me to this point. I use the word push because while they are inspirational no doubt, their mission is transparent and it is movement. So I believe Seth Godin wouldn’t mind me calling him pushy 😉
I read somewhere recently on a blog about the power of writing fanmail (it was probably on Seth’s blog but I can’t be sure). I have never been known to be a person to write thank you notes and have always wished (or dreamed?) that I was better at it. I can fix that! Tada…Fanmail Blog Post!
Why did I choose Seth Godin first?
Because he is the only blogger I have read daily. I’ve been reading his blog daily for about 10 months, more or less. I’ve also read a few of his books (all on Audible because I love that he narrates his own books). And so it is Seth Godin more than any other person (aside from God) who has PUSHED me to whimsically pursue 30 days of dreaming publicly believing that I…Nicole Colter…a wife, mom, and lowly business owner in Eastern CT could start a Movement of Dreamers. Visionary Dreamers like Reverand Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who AM I to think I could do this?
I’m glad you ask. The best way I can answer that is to refer you to my favorite quote from Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
If you are not following Seth’s blog, your loss. As for me, it is one of the first things I do in the morning, EVERY morning.
Thanks Seth!
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