Up until recently, I kept putting off what I wanted to do by saying I didn’t have time. Well, I will never have more time. There’s only a certain allotment of time doled out during the day. The trick was to determine whether my goals were important enough to really pursue and, if so, plan how would I go about it. I’m a work in progress, but I am making headway with the goals of writing and reading more.

If you feel you don’t have time to read or write as much as you would like to, take a look at this article. It might help. It might not. The real trick is not to spend too much time on websites like this and instead go out and live your life to the fullest. Good luck!

“Stanley Ketchel was twenty-four years old when he was fatally shot in the back by the common-law husband of the lady who was cooking his breakfast.”

The above opening sentence was written by John Lardner, a noted sports columnist of the 20th century. As a newspaper writer, he had to capture his audience with one shot (and still be mindful of the little kids who might read it) and pull them in to find out the rest of the story (thus buy the paper ). About the only thing missing for a modern audience (which everyone at the time would have known) was that Ketchel was a dominant force in boxing, a powerfully built man not to be messed with.

I wish the media still wrote like that. Shoot, I wish I did, too.

Stories are easy. Writing them down is hard. Editing is a challenge. Finishing them is a pleasure. Self promotion seems to be the most difficult task of all.