Raphael Freeman

Author: Raphael Freeman

  • Fear of an Audience

    I have been loving the process of creating something new and being in the flow of new learning, but I’m also looking forward to establishing a new routine.

    What do I want to say to new homebuyers? What would I say if I thought that they would listen? My real fear is that they would tune out the message and still hurt themselves. My real fear is that I lose people because my delivery is not crafted. But I have to realize that even Jesus was like, “let those with ears hear!” I can’t make people hear what they don’t want to. I can’t convince people to want something different than what their survival-brain wants. So, I’ll have to talk to the people who want to thrive. And it was hubris on my part that drove that fear. Hubris to think that if I could just craft the right message, I could reach the most and prevent them from harm. Knowing good and well that there’s a whole political machinery that, with much better targeted data, can barely do it.

  • Delay of Gratification in Skill Building

    Delay of Gratification in Skill Building

    I want it now !

    It turns out that as I’m building out my other website, the desire to have the completed project at hand, is eating me alive. I know what it’s like to build a fresh skill. I’ve done it so many times.

    I think that this time it feels different because the project is so well defined and I’m building with no hand-holding. I almost feel like a hypocrite. I’ve told my daughter to feel the burn so many times when she’s building a new skill that she has developed an hello-old-friend recognition to that burn. But it has been quite a while since I’ve been this much of a neophyte. I’m a bit disoriented by the emotional component.

    Reminding myself to breathe

    As I remind myself to breathe through the discomfort and cling not to the desire for the completed project, the wisdom the bubbles up is that it’s about the process. All of it is about the process. There is no “finish”, in fact. I only have to be in the process.

  • Doing The Most

    Doing The Most

    This blog PLUS another blog.

    Running a whole blog while trying to build out another website, is probably a terrible idea. Especially for a burgeoning web developer. I do recognize that splitting my efforts in this way is a terrible idea, but I also want to be able to document the process.

    I’m actually pretty excited to build out The Foundational Wealth Project. I don’t know how long it’ll take before I feel great about it, but, as you can see here, executing and getting out an ugly minimum viable product is better than waiting for perfection.

    I’m launching the FWP asap, and hopefully we’ll get better with time.

    Writers gonna write

    Of course the other aspect that I want to document, is the development of my writing. I’d like to go back to see where I was. That won’t be so clearly reflected in the FWP. People can recognize good writing, of course, but it’s part of the invisible substrate that gives rise to the content. Here, on RaphaelFreeman.com my relationship to language and writing will be more explicit. Eventually I’ll begin to tackle the subject matters of goal acquisition and these little thoughts will be relegated to side-bar musings. I look forward to those days, too.

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