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The Bad Days, Part One: When “Nothing” Gets Done

Knowing our task isn’t easy is nice (like a cliche coffee-cup saying is nice), but it leads us to our next truth and my secret hard-day theory: the bad days, no matter how distinctly crippling they are, are not wasted. Even the protracted pain of a zero-production day isn’t really a zero-production day. Sure, you didn’t cut your 16 mortise and tenons like you thought, or mill your pile of ash or walnut or whatever tropical carnival-colored species you’re rocking with, but consider what you did do. And you did do something, and this may sound like a cop-out but I assure you it is not: you showed up and you thought–a lot.

Ryan GlennAugust 8, 2022Encouragement, woodworking, Hard Work, hard times, hard days, bad days, showing upComment

Why I Left Advertising, Part Two

The goal for me in exploring the varied seasons of my career is…to try and discern some themes that developed through them that led me as inextricably into the industry as out of it.

Ryan GlennJanuary 17, 2022advertising, dream-job, dreams, satisfaction, woodworking, passion, discipline, loyalty, Hard Work

Encouragement for Us, In Between

In-between is not where I like to be.

I like to be done. I like to be finished, wrapped up, and on to the next one.

Yet I have begun to learn this lesson over the years – to trust the in-between. The uncomfortable liminal spaces between beginning and ending, starting and finishing.