🦄 Iterate

Book of TREE 3.25: manifesting for materialists 10/10

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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 I started TREE, my newsletter was at least three different things over a a few years

I started TREE on Mailchimp. Each post was a giant TREE logo, 125 words and a song. Now here we are on in the FFOREST on Substack. It’s a bit longer and a bit different

In 2024, I started writing a monthly review for Brand New.

I’m working on another writing thing that I hope to talk about soon.

I never imagined in advance that I would do any of these things. I just knew I liked to draw and write and tell stories and be useful.

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.

Here’s a good song for starting the weekend.

On Monday I’ll tell you how I manifested my current job using this very guide.

Happy weekend
Jeff