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| Hi, Nik here! For the next 48 hours, you can get 2-Minute Pep Talks for only $0.99 (ebook) on most platforms. Let me tell you a bit about why I wrote the book and why I think it's important. I think the best place to start is this picture, which I took a few days ago: That day, a new intern started at my company. He'll only be there for a few months, but still, like every employee, he received the traditional welcome message in our Slack channel—and the traditional "Welcome!"s and "Have a great start!"s to go with it. When his manager introduced him, he mentioned a little fun fact: Our new guy likes Star Wars. Well, guess what I happened to be wearing that morning? My one and only Star Wars t-shirt. I'm still relatively new in the company myself, and not many people post full-on selfies on a regular basis, so I wasn't sure: Do I send this kid a picture, or do I stick to something more generic? I thought about it for a bit. In the end, I decided, "Oh well, let's go!" I went outside, took the picture, and added it in the welcome thread. "I think you'll like it here," I wrote, "although these might not be the droids you're looking for..." (a Star Wars insider). I'll never know if the photo made the new guy's day or not, but based on the many emoji reactions I got, a good handful of people at least had a good laugh. And you know what? That's good enough for me—because living a life where I choose to send that picture is what it's all about. This, in a nutshell, is why I wrote 2-Minute Pep Talks: To restore some of the playfulness, confidence, and let's-do-it-spirit most of us grow up with—and that we often lose as we "become responsible adults." There's nothing wrong with being a responsible adult. It's noble to take on duties which extend beyond yourself. But for many of us, the idea of "duty" at some point becomes overshadowing. We turn into robots cycling through various habits and routines, and we completely forget to have fun. Sometimes, our childlike spirit vanishes altogether. Then, years later, we wonder: "This can't be it, right? There has to be more to life than 'performing.'" If we're lucky enough to realize we fell off track, we might start working to bring back some of our earlier zest for life. It really is ironic: We begin life learning everything we truly need to know, but then we bury it under mountains of societal conditioning—only to then spend the majority of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we thought we had finally understood. 2-Minute Pep Talks contains 67 tiny doors back to those early days. It's about filling your spiritual well with hope, love, and comfort every day. And all it takes is 2 minutes. A short story. A crazy idea. A funny parable. Whatever gets the spring back into your step. The result—at least the result I'm hoping for as you turn this book's pages—is that you'll look at yourself in the mirror with a mischievous glint in your eye a little bit more frequently. That you'll recapture some of the aura which made you an unstoppable explorer in your pre-teen days. And that you'll regain some, maybe even much, of that light, energetic, hopeful feeling nearly all children around the world share to this day.
Thank you—and may the Force be with you! Happy reading, |
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