15 Minutes to Live

I am a follower of Seth Godin and what he continues to create. He moves me to action and action is what I have needed after a month of not writing on this blog. So here is the motivation the next 30 days. 

Every day  The Domino Project will email me a prompt and my response is to write about the prompt. I will attempt to blog my portion of the prompt's to get me moving once again on my blog. You can read more about the project here.

Day 1 Prompt

We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

You just discovered you have fifteen minutes to live.
1. Set a timer for fifteen minutes.2. Write the story that has to be written.

To be honest this was difficult and I put it off until the end of the day. I am not much of a storyteller and often have a hard time telling or retelling a story. So my prompt led me not to write a story, but write encouraging others to write their story. In a sense, I found my voice echoing what it means to live a good story. 

--The story that must be written is a short book and a collection of inspirational quotes that moves people to action. This book is about navigating life and the trials and conflicts that come our way. Many people are stuck with mediocrity, but God has designed us for more. More life, not more stuff; a life abundant.

Everyone faces conflict's and it seems that most everyone is stuck and often we do not move beyond the conflict when we are faced with one. Those conflicts lead to addictions, weight gain, depression, loneliness, divorce, and the like. When conflict arise we find ourselves stuck in front of a media screen. A media screen does not move us to action. Instead it keeps us from leaning into the conflict and growing from the conflict. 

This story is a story about you. A story that moves you in a direction to engage in relationships and a life abundant. Possibly this is not for everyone because not everyone is stuck. However, for those that desire to move beyond themselves we must realize that we have been hurt by relationships that cause us to get stuck, but we have to take action to be present with new relationships as God moves us in a direction that is new and fresh. This is about you creating a story, not writing a story.