Ideas

Welcome to my repository of ideas that I want to put out into the world. Someday.

I have a lot of ideas

Here’s a running list of the ones that keep percolating and feel worthy enough for me to jot down. I probably won’t get to them all before I kick the bucket, but here they are anyway.

Website updates

These are always running through my head. In addition to the unlinked pages already sprinkled throughout my sitemap, I want to:

  • Continue adding folks to my credits as I go—and add people to thank in my annual reviews

  • Write about the principles related to each of my themes

  • Add a page for favorites: movie, birthday, gift received, meal, company started, year I’ve lived, kids (j/k!), car I’ve owned, etc.

  • Add a newsletter page, not just a “Subscribe” anchor link; I am inspired by James Clear’s 3-2-1 version of that

  • Add pages for my poetry and songs

  • Add a page of places I’ve visited, including places I want to still visit

  • Add a page for questions I like to ask people: one sermon, three words, word for the year, etc.

  • Consider updating the top-level navigation to be not about me, you, and more only

  • Write down the quotes that have changed me (e.g. “if there’s not life in it, I’m uninterested in being involved...”)

  • Add learnings on every project page

  • A page for each family member, including photos, milestones, and what I love about them

  • Update other long pages with anchor links that don’t have them (niceties, for example, but also movies)

  • Add pages for the projects that I supported but didn’t start, sharing my learnings there—or maybe it’s just one long resume-like page of sorts

  • Make sure to go through and create SEO and social sharing friendly images and metadata for each page

Future projects

These are some of the projects I’d like to work on or somehow incorporate into this personal website effort.

  • Products for purchase on this website

  • Do nothing together: a group workbook

  • Detox for doers: how many days, I’m not sure

  • #WIJD: apparel to go along with the concept in Do Nothing

  • Future books: I have so many I want to write—but more importantly, I want to come up with a framework that allows me to crank these out better and faster; maybe it even becomes something I can help others with, as well

  • Loopyhole: what a name

  • Just a crack: the door opener that delivers on what kids always ask for

  • 25 hacks to improve your life: a 4-week digital guide to improving your life; 25 hacks, plus 1 intro, 1 what to do next, and 1 outro

  • Annual planning worksheets or journal that incorporates the Be Do Go You concepts

  • A 10K+ NFT collection: launched on OpenSea

  • Spiritual gifts: an online assessment and training

  • How to start a business, the redux: now powered by Journeyage

  • Church outside the box: a ready-to-send kit for people who want to help start an organic fellowship

  • Swellway subscriptions: buy one, give one

  • Frame(work) for frameworks: Focused, Repeatable, Architected, Memorable, Engaging

  • Podcast: a podcast with Nicole and/or the kids about family freedom, especially in light of selling the house and living elsewhere

  • A documentary: I have to make at least one movie before I die; it definitely belongs on my bucket list

Ideas I’ve completed

To illustrate the power of lists, I’ll add the items that were once outlined above down here once they get done. I love a finished list, but I’ll hold off on crossing out every item, so you can read it more easily that way.