Welcome to my Brand New Meantime

Every morning for months, I listened to the same meditation on my Breethe app. Over time I turned the meditation into a Daily Vision Questionnaire: an AI journal prompt based on these four questions about the Meantime:

• What Is: Is the status quo tenable?

• What If: Are my current circumstances sustainable?

• What Now: Is there a better option visible?

• What Next: Is that better option available now, or is there a next step I must take toward it?

Most people aren’t living the life of their dreams because they think they are supposed to know what to dream for based on their current understanding of What Is. But What If you could design the life of your dreams around how you want to feel…not what you want to do in order to feel that way?

In a world that prioritizes “What do I need to do” over “How do I choose to feel”, this was a vocabulary shift for me. A way to express something I already do internally. Because if I have learned one thing over the past 58 years, it’s that my to do list is not within my control. Life happens despite all my beautifully designed lists.

I am not always the Chooser of what happens to me but I am the Chooser of how I Choose to understand what it means.

My dream of publishing my Neurosparkle Newsletter has proven elusive despite my best intentions and well laid plans. Organizing my writing has proven to be an insurmountable challenge that has in no way diminished my desire to write.

For me, right now, the only option - publishing what comes to mind as it comes to mind—is that next and only step.

I am a Neurosparkler, possibly the only one who identifies this way and I only speak for myself.

If my hypothesis proves true though, my message will reveal itself over time and I may find that there is an entire tribe of people who know what they know yet don’t have the words to explain it themselves.

I have spent a lifetime explaining myself to a world that still does not have an accurate diagnosis for my way of being different. But not anymore.

If you didn’t quite fit in because you are too smart, too scattered, too sensitive, too much on one hand and not enough on the other, then perhaps you are a Neurosparkler too.

I’m building something called Get to No University, a place where we learn to stop apologizing, explaining, and start designing lives that fit how Neurosparklers actually think.

If that’s not you, I say this with love and clarity: Please. Do. Not. Follow out of curiosity or charity.

I am not seeking an audience or followers.
I am seeking resonance.

If my message doesn’t align with your reality, it’s not meant for you.

Either go write your own, or go find the one that fits you better. I promise I won’t be sad.

But if the unfiltered, uncensored words I share begin to make sense to you - if they feel like your own thoughts finally made visible - then I ask one thing:

Respond.
React.
Tell me what lands.
Tell me what doesn’t.

I am writing this while awaiting my final neuropsychological report. Soon, I’ll have the diagnostic terms to match the boxes I’ve checked off for decades.

The report won’t say Neurosparkler—not yet.
Because that word doesn’t mean anything to the world.
But it means everything to me.

Here’s what to expect from me going forward:

• I will be writing. A lot.

• This newsletter will be curated and sent whenever it’s ready with:

  • One deep dive

  • A handful of links and sparks from the things I have written since the last one.

• Eventually, it will evolve into a scheduled weekly newsletter I hope —because I am evolving. But for now, the confines of having to publish on time are not conducive to my lifestyle.

Soon, I’ll launch a paid tier that includes a community and all access behind the scenes.

I need a space where I can publish my Neurosparkly wisdom with abandon and get the feedback of other Neurosparklers in my own Empire of Empathy. A place where I can workshop my thoughts and build the bones of the body of work that’s been waiting for a lifetime…even if it only becomes my private diary that no one else reads.

If you’re still reading this—thank you.

But again, I’ll ask you:
Please unsubscribe if this doesn’t resonate.
I am not building a following. I am building a tribe of Neurosparklers — the ones who say: “I’ve always known this about myself… but never had the words for it.”

Neurosparklers are not problems that need to be solved. We are cognitive conundrums. And it’s time we Revolutionize the Status Quo.

Welcome to a different way of thinking about thinking differently.

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