Hey 👋 - Dave here.

Happy Saturday morning.

This week’s been wild so today I’ve got an oldie but goodie for you!

Read time: 2 minutes

Keep creating!

Hair was never a good look for me.

Photographic evidence once surfaced when I showed my kids this photo from my high school yearbook.

My daughter giggled.

My son said, "Maybe you do look better bald."

While that may be true, I still went into shock when I began losing my hair at nineteen years old.

Hair loss was not part of the plan, so I obsessed about how it would impact my life.

Ladies? Career? Ladies!!

I decided to take action.

First, I planned to save hairs by shampooing less often.

Also, no more styling gel.

Then I grew it out to look thicker.

Next, I wore a hat.

I eventually asked my parents for Rogaine as a birthday gift (because I was too embarrassed to buy it myself).

Once I received the gift, its packaging claimed to strictly help the bald spot at the crown of the head.

Except I was losing it everywhere!

Boo genetics.

Within days, I visited the store for a refund.

There was no saving my hair and my life would never be the same.

Our Many Plans

Ever feel like the world's conspiring against you?

Think about your creative dreams.

You make big plans for your artwork.

You dream of releasing something into the world that entertains and inspires, even make a living from it.

You envision your creativity changing the world.

But your plans are often disrupted by the world.

Like when my first story coach offered me a refund and said, "I can't coach what I can't comprehend."

And when one of the most successful Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors likened my first website to a circus barker promising too much.

And when the sudden death of a loved one paralyzed my creative life.

Life Slappens

If you're anything like me, then you've scripted the story of your life.

But your plans take place in the real world.

And while the world's can be fair, more often it's chaotic and messy.

So plans unravel.

Hiccups interrupt.

Tragedy strikes.

That’s when it’s easiest to think the world's trying to ruin your life.

The world's not plotting against you though.

Your plans are simply taking place in an unpredictable setting.

An Education in Chaos

You can't make the world follow your plans, but you can expect the world to change them.

So I suggest you process setbacks with the headspace of an adventurer.

Because new options offer different paths to become more than your broken blueprints.

Setbacks create opportunities for growth.

Obstacles have the ability to humble.

They can help you expand in the midst of mayhem.

So good riddance to my head lettuce.

Like I said, hair was never a good look for me.

My first story coach offering me a refund solidified the high-stakes of becoming a full-stack storyteller.

And that best-selling author's brutal criticism did not define me.

I know my heart.

The death of a loved one?

It wasn't until I lost my father that I began to actualize what he'd been preaching for years:

Evolution

I challenge you to evolve when the world's plotting against you.

Hair loss, criticism, death - these aren't endpoints.

They're detours forcing you toward new destinations.

Embrace change.

Let it transform you. 

Turn setbacks into comebacks.

You're not just surviving the plot twists.

You're writing them.

Go show the world what you're made of.

Because you are the One you've been waiting for. 

That’s it for this Saturday.

See ya next week!

— Dave