From today’s reading...
Moses used to take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting. Anyone who wanted to consult Yahweh would go out to the Tent of Meeting, outside the camp. He stayed there with Yahweh for forty days and forty nights, eating and drinking nothing, and on the tablets he wrote the words of the covenant -- the Ten Words.” Exodus 33:7, 28
It looks like Silicon Valley wasn’t the inventor of the company-offsite or corporate retreat after all, huh?
Even in the desert, before GPS and satellite communications/entertainment, you need some downtime to do your best thinking, listening, and praying. You need to simplify. You need to get away from it all.
I’ve had many authors on The Sales Podcast who have described their processes for getting their books written, and many go on writing retreats to focus and bang out a lot of work quickly.
George Bernard Shaw spent his last 20 years of writing in a little hut on his property in England.
Underneath it was a turntable, which allowed Shaw to push a button to have his shed rotate to follow the sun.
And you can’t throw a dead cat today without hitting someone espousing the benefits of fasting and intermittent fasting, which my wife and I have successfully followed for the last couple of years.
So if you want to be successful in life, which includes connecting with God, make time to get away from it all regularly. (Remember the advice “God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on that day he rested after all his work of creating” back in Genesis 2:3? Yeah, that’s in the beginning because God knows the adage of “Open big. Close big.” But I digress.)
And simplify what you eat. Start by eating less.
More quiet time, more solitude, and simpler food is the only way to...
Stay the course.
Keep the faith.
Endure.
Now go sell something.
