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Inspiration and Playing the Infinite Game

Hi friends! Wow, it's crazy how inspiration can leave for a bit to take a break and then come back tenfold after you just give it a little bit of rest!

Here's where I'm at: I've finally launched my own landing page for my Letters from Nelson newsletter (I'd just thrown it up before using the landing page builder from Mailchimp with the intention of coding my own in the near future).

So after a couple of days and a few false-starts with design (you know - where you code something up, and there's just something about it that looks super off), I'm proud to share it here >>

Over the past month, I've sent out four newsletters. I did a ton of nannying in previous years, and I loved finding super fun and unique activities for the kids I took care of - so this is definitely an extension of that in hopes of helping parents out with fun ideas for their kids during this strange time in our world.

Aside from that, I have a couple of 'life admin' items to take care of today - including hooking up a custom domain to my LFN site. I might have a weekend project of reconstructing the code from a website I saw and liked the design of. Also looking into a cool hackathon and seeing how I can get involved!

I also just started a new morning read - The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. I'll leave you with this special nugget from the book:

As for us, those who choose to embrace an infinite mindset, our journey is one that will lead us to feel inspired every morning, safe when we are at work and fulfilled at the end of each day. And when it is our time to leave the game, we will look back at our lives and our careers and say 'I lived a life worth living.' And more important, when imagining what the future holds, we will see how many people we've inspired to carry on the journey without us.


This post was originally published on April 3, 2020 on my blog.

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