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Why My Book Will Be No More

Photo by Spencer Finnley

Imagine knowing exactly what spirituality is.

Picture a world where it doesn’t come from scripture, church, or doctrine. A world where it doesn’t come from what your parents told you, or your pastor.

Imagine a version of yourself with a calm, self-assured confidence that comes from experiencing the sacred firsthand.

You can have that experience.

These words open my first ever ever book, Walk Like a God. They were written two months before I deployed.

Rich in photos, Walk Like a God expresses a way of spirituality that doesn’t follow religion. It roots the spiritual search in the act of challenging yourself, and the simple practice of walking.

It’s a love song to the natural world, to the human spirit, and to our ability to find our own way without doctrine.

And on Sunday, Walk Like a God will no longer be available.

Why?

Authors change.

In the paper-laden past, books went out of print. If all copies sold they became hard to find. Only a huge demand could conjure more.

In the digital realm authors can ride a product forever. But I don’t want to. I’m no longer the person who wrote Walk Like a God. My journey changes me, and I want my work to change too.

Digital publishing is supposed to free writers from a corporate mentality. So instead of selling and selling till the sales run dry, I’m taking it off the shelf.

I want to be clear: I still think Walk Like a God is a great book. I’m proud of it, and when I read back through it I still feel happy with what it teaches.

So you have a little time left.

Whether you’ve been putting it off, just heard of it, or simply want to have a “complete” Rogue Priest collection:

grab Walk Like a God here

But only through 11/11. At the end of Sunday, it’s gone.

Many thanks to everyone who bought, read, enjoyed, or reviewed my first book. The big question is: what do you want in my next book on spirituality?


How to Survive Adventure (even when it sucks)

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In Walk Like a God I teach you how to plan an adventure and use it as a life-changing practice.

One of the most important parts of planning an adventure is to know that there will be times when it is terrible. Times when you want to quit and go home.

Will Peach, the gonzo traveler (extraordinaire) of My Spanish Adventure, just hit one of those times.

His blog is amazing, and I hope you check it out. I feel for him, because I’ve seen exciting, over-hyped plans fail in crushing ways. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

It’s not the every-moment that makes an adventure worth having, it’s the long arc. Easy activities can be fun when they’re happening but later on they seem like a waste. You wish you had the time back. Difficult projects are frustrating in the moment, but can become a happy memory that pays dividends for years.

If they succeed.

If you want to learn how to make an adventure succeed, it’s one of five strategies covered in detail in Walk Like a God. Take a look here.

Through May 3, 2012 I’m running a contest to give away a seat at the World Domination Summit. Enter now.


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