🧚♀️ TREE 363: Iterate
The boring ol’ materialist’s guide to manifesting, part 10 of 10
One.
When I was in primary school some friends and I drew a comic magazine. One of the dads copied and printed enough copies for everyone in the class to buy one. We lost money because it was the 80s and copying was expensive.
That was my first publishing venture.
There was also a family newsletter and
a church newsletter.
I submitted some comics to a magazine.
(They said, No, thanks.)
When I became a proper grown up, I
wrote a blog on and off for fourteen years,
had a go a creating a wiki,
had a Tumblr,
tweeted,
wrote thoughtful things on Facebook,
posted few articles on Medium,
self-published six books,
started four more that I never finished and
drew an almost daily comic – four different versions.
Before TREE, my newsletter was at least three different things over a few years.
I started TREE on Mailchimp. Each post was a giant TREE logo, 125 words and a song. Now here we are in the FOREST on Substack with 250 words, a song and a drawing. (I can’t not draw.)
TREE feels like the thing I was always meant to do.1 But back in 2019 I never imagined I would be doing this.
On your way to manifesting the thing you want, don’t get locked in to what the manifestation must look like. There’s a good chance you can’t imagine it yet. Just do the next thing. Then iterate, and do the thing after that a little better, and a little better, and a little different, and a little better.
As you iterate merrily along your way, remember that you learn more from your failures than you do from your successes.
There you have it, my guide to manifesting for materialists. Read it a few more times to get it in your head, then go get that pony you’ve been dreaming about.
The boring ol’ materialist’s guide to manifesting
Two.
This is version five of James’ peacock costume. He hasn’t decided about arm holes yet.
Three.
I chose this song has one of my favourite lyrics for a long time:
You’re gonna say that I’m on a high horse
I think that my horse
is regular-sized
Happy manifesting!
Jeff
Not as an endpoint; there are other things to do as well.
Jeff, you never cease to amaze me. I am really grateful to get to know you now, 30+years after you pastored my kiddos.
I set out on my journey yesterday and got groceries at Trader Joe’s and put them away in my rv. Turned the key and click, click, click, click, click. Autozone was within walking distance. Your message yesterday was about asking for help. It popped in my thoughts and I literally laughed. You helped me, Guy! I asked for help, had a lie down and within the shortest time, had a new battery (I use 3 and all are new now) and took off. Sometimes it’s amazing how a word like “ask for help “ comes at just the right time. I would have asked but your encouragement popped in my head. The synchronisity made me laugh. I need people, yes. We need each other. Wisdom says “every joint supplies”. I know what body part I am, an ear. What would you consider you are as a supply to others?