One morning before dawn, I rolled over, grabbed my phone, and posted on social media.

I wrote that if I ever started a local landscaping company, I would call it "Atplanta."

Then, I started my day. Hours later, I had completely forgotten that I had created and shared this silly pun on my city's name, and it made me laugh when I came across it again.

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The lawn did not appear to be fully mown, unless the person who had mowed it intended, as a work of art or landscape design, to leave a rectangular patch of grass to continue to grow.

The lawnmower was nowhere in evidence. The rest of the yard appeared to be tidy.

When I walked by again, tomorrow, next week, or next month, would this patch of taller grass still be there? Would it be mown flat? Or would more of the lawn have become wild?

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When I was a performing songwriter, there was one moment when I was onstage somewhere and thought, “Why on earth should I bare my soul to these people?”

Back then, most of the songs I had written were like the songs I had been hearing singer-songwriters perform for most of my life. They were confessionals about love and romance and adjacent topics. You know, feelings and stuff. This material was so entrenched that I couldn’t seem to write about anything else.

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Two years ago, I felt a bit stuck.

I wanted to launch a new project into the world, but I felt like anything I did to promote it would be shouting into the void.

On the direct recommendation of Pia Silva — and the longtime advice of Seth Godin — I started publishing my work every day. And I’m here to tell you that it’s changed everything.

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There are two problems that we have with time (okay, there are probably more, but let me just sound like I know what I’m talking about).

The first is the day-to-day struggle of having enough time to fit things into our schedule. The second is the long-term struggle of feeling like it’s too late to start — that life has passed us by.

Both of these problems are illusory. They are based on feelings — that is, emotions and perceptions — rather than reality. And conveniently, they are both solved the same way.

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