Gratitude changes everything.

When you say thank you to a friend, to a spouse, to a client, to a customer, or to a checkout clerk and really mean it… they know it. I don’t know why that is, but something happens inside of both the speaker and the hearer when the words “thank you” come from a place of genuine gratitude.

More likely than not, you can think of a time when your expression or omission of gratitude toward another person impacted the flow of events in your life. Things might be completely different now whether or not you chose to express gratitude when you were given a chance.

While entitlement repels everything around it until it finally implodes, gratitude attracts and expands until there is little to no room left for anything else. Because there is so very much to be grateful for. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this email, I mean it.

We all have an audience. Love yours.
- Stew Redwine

Past Emails
Fail more.
Rite of passage.
Make some waste.
Your hidden talent.
Brainsprint.
Slap your Audience.
Finish it.
“Action!”
Fear thy Audience.
They’re not idiots.
If you have to ask, you already know.
What’s stopping you?
Tell a better story.
Work hard.
Art is Autobiography.
Do not despair.
Tell the truth.
The world’s most compelling ideology.
They want you.
Your project sucks.
The most powerful word.
36 Parables is dead.

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Fail more.

One of my neighbors is teaching me to play the board game Stratego. He wins every game. We’ve played over ten times, and it doesn’t look like I’m going [...] Continue Reading…

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Rite of Passage.

My oldest daughter graduated pre-school this week. She wore a special cap and gown, sang songs with her classmates, listened to her teacher’s talk about the time they had spent together, [...] Continue Reading…

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Make some waste.

This week I started working with a friend of mine on rewriting a script I’ve been developing for twelve years. He is a very talented writer, who works for [...] Continue Reading…

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Your hidden talent.

You have a hidden talent. It turns out my neighbor, a clean cut aerospace engineer, is a closet electronic musician. A few days ago, when he busted out his [...] Continue Reading…

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Brainsprint.

This week I went out of town for two days of brainstorming. Then something magical happened. Instead of two days of brainstorms, we had one epic brainsprint.

After an hour [...] Continue Reading…

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