②●⓪ TREE 755: TREE 2.0 introduction
I have 0% interest in being a personal growth guru. I started TREE because I was sick of looking at social media and the news first thing in the morning. This newsletter has been scaffolding to help me change a habit. Along the way, TREE has helped me improve how I eat, exercise and work. It has given me space to think about and write down what I believe about life, the universe and everything. Best of all, it has connected me with a bunch of people who are also interested in growing like trees.
Now that I’m off the socials and I’ve established some good habits, I’m not so interested in the scaffolding. I’m moving into a phase where I’m focussed more on the stuff I want to make and less on self-development. What this means for TREE is that I’m looking back to my original purpose for starting: Something to get your brain moving in a positive direction first thing in the morning.
The way I’ve mostly tried to fire your neurons for last 3½ years has been by writing about personal growth. I still will, some. And I’m going to expand my writing remit to include anything that makes me think in a good way, ideas that help me work better, stuff that inspires me and challenges me. It will be somewhat more visceral and in-my-moment. It will be somewhat less here are things I’ve learned over the last 50 years. I will be featuring more guest authors (starting next week).
I don’t know how different, TREE 2.0 will seem to you. You will still get emails at 5 AM UK time. They will still be short and will still include drawings and songs. There will be TREEpeats from across the first 750 posts.
If you want to keep waking up to good thoughts, I’ll be here for you.
If you have parameters, feel free to change them. It’s not like you’ll be arrested by the parameter police.
A helpful diagram:
‘You’re a rock star and you belong here.’
The TREE posts I’ve written so far might get rearranged into a book, if it turns out that they are actually an unarranged book. I’m not sure yet.
Grow slowly
Jeff