I wrote this for you. Thank you.

Happy Friday,

It’s Black Friday, and I’m exhausted. This week, I created 12 commercial emails for clients. Each email has two versions, one for people who check email on a desktop or laptop, plus the mobile version. So, 24. In a week.

Not just text. Fully graphic, like the commercial ones we all get in abundance this time of year. Plus, changing the websites to correspond.

I manage five commercial sites for clients. Two are built on ecommerce stores and three are on Wordpress with an ecommerce plugin. The wordpress sites decided this was the week to have plugin issues. Because, of course. lol.

I do have a point.

But first, some weirdly random stuff.

Some guy is highlighting my entire posts on Medium. Line by line. No idea why and I’m too tired to figure it out. I can’t imagine “all” the words resonate.

I read a post on Medium this morning that said there’s no such thing as positive thinking, there’s only doing what needs to be done.

It made me remember when I left a bad marriage. No one told me the court would freeze my bank account pending division of assets. I found out when I tried to pay for groceries. No money, bills to pay and a child to support.

I woke up every day with crushing fear and panic. I beat it off with words. Telling myself you can do this, kid. You’re smart. You’ve got this. It’s going to be okay. I don’t know if that’s positive thinking or just doing what needs to be done.

Maybe I’ll write about it.

Last weirdly random thing. Medium has 74 “top writer” tags. One of them is “advice.” I used to be pasted to the top of the top writer page for advice. But the more I wrote, the more I discovered how much I hate that tag.

Because to give advice, you have to know where a person is and what they’re trying to achieve. I can give my clients advice because I know where they are and what they’re trying to achieve. But otherwise? No. So I stopped using the tag.

Here’s the point. Finally. lol.

In some ways, we’re all the same. We cry the same tears, bleed the same blood, and we all want to feel like we matter. But in other ways, we’re all different. We have our own ideas, goals, dreams and preferences.

All we can do is share and hope something resonates.
Highlighting optional. lol.

Really, that’s how we find our people in this very big and yet very small world. By sharing what matters. So that’s what I do. I share what I learn, share what I think and hope for the best. It’s worked pretty well and that’s mostly due to you.

Yesterday was Thanksgiving in America.
So I just wanted to say thank you.

How are you doing today?
Not as tired as me, I hope.

xo

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xo,
Linda