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    Light Up the Grind
    Light Up the Grind
    Light Up the Grind
    Ebook51 pages42 minutes

    Light Up the Grind

    By Richard Everts

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    In Light Up the Grind, Richard Everts talks long-term fulfillment. Infusing his own life lessons and experiences with success and failure, this short memoir takes self-help to different heights. Everts provides humorous pop-culture insight to dealing with real-life struggles.

    Richard Everts' advice ranges from why adults should still believe in Santa Clause to how the secret to a loving marriage is in having separate bathrooms. "Light Up the Grind" is an intellectual and insightful collection that pulls you in with its simplicity and leaves you with an unexpected deep understanding on life, love, and the grind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 23, 2022
    ISBN9781667821245
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      Book preview

      Light Up the Grind - Richard Everts

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      Dedication

      For my eternal Beloved,

      for whom I am but a pale footstep

      upon the sandy beaches of time.

      May your light burn ever brighter through me,

      then shine down upon me,

      illuminating a grateful steward’s life.

      And for my wife and son,

      who deserve a better Terra.

      © Richard Everts 2022

      ISBN: 978-1-66782-123-8

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-66782-124-5

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Ideas Should Never Have Time to Cake to a Whiteboard

      Santa Claus Is Real

      There Are Always More Dragons Being Born

      The Key to a Happy Marriage

      Set Yourself on Fire

      Don’t Be Ashamed of Two Things

      The Power of a Good Compliment

      Evil Is Real

      Be a Huckleberry

      Ozzy Was Right

      Never Forget the Last American Saint

      The Freedom of a Round Table

      Final Thoughts

      Introduction

      This is a short book about some things I’ve learned and experienced over the last couple of decades of pretty much constantly getting my butt kicked by life, with a few small victories here and there.

      I’m lucky to be alive, having almost died quite a few times and, as Jim Morrison once said, This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

      I’ve directed and produced some films, started and failed at a number of startups, had dozens of jobs and lots of gigs in various industries and services, spoken at numerous conferences and events, and worked within the disabilities nonprofit community for a long time. I even have ideas about the next thousand years that I’m writing in another book.

      But I just wanted to get something out.

      So, here it is, my first self-help book, after reading hundreds of self-help books by others.

      Sometimes it’s personal. Sometimes it’s just stories or ideas. However, I can say that whatever is here is all true, at least as far as I know.

      I hope you enjoy and get something out of it.

      Ideas Should Never Have Time to Cake to a Whiteboard

      In my living space, close to where I sleep, I have a custom whiteboard that I built out of a huge roll of white film-background paper, which is used as a base, covered with three four-by-eight-foot pieces of acrylic plastic sheets. They sit as two four-by-eights stacked horizontally, with the third vertically next to them, which gives me a twelve-by-eight-foot whiteboard for less than $375 worth of parts from The Home Depot and B&H Photo.

      Visitors always find the board filled with my latest crackpot ideas, scribbles of physics or math equations or neural networks, notes about the next big business idea or mock-ups of user experiences of software, or sometimes just terrible narratives even I can barely read, that I wrote at 4 a.m. after my body forced me awake and commanded me to create.

      It’s also where I keep my New Year’s resolutions every year, tucked away in a small corner. This year, it looks like I’ll hit four of the five, which is an improvement over the previous year with three out of five.

      Likewise, I keep track of some of my strangest dreams, to see the patterns of my subconscious, of what my mind is really

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