For 17 years, I kept another blog before moving to this site. While there, I wrote several times a week about a variety of topics, mostly spirituality, pastoral ministry, and popular culture. On January 6th of this year, I finally bade farewell to that site. I wanted a change in online venues, and to approachContinue reading “Announcing my new ebook: No Perfect Time”
Author Archives: Jeff Nelson
My Many Notebooks
Ever since I was in elementary school, I’ve had a love of notebooks. In those earliest days I would fill spiral-bound school notebooks with drawings. In college, I’d keep an extra notebook or two in addition to those designated for classwork, just to scribble random thoughts or doodle in my spare time. The summer beforeContinue reading “My Many Notebooks”
A Gimmicky Rhyme Scheme for Pursuing a State of Flow
My word for the year is Flow, based on the work and writing of psychologist Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. His book on Flow has been foundational to this effort: finding a center is key to his proposed concept of flow, as one seeks an ideal state between anxiety and boredom where we meet the moment with confidenceContinue reading “A Gimmicky Rhyme Scheme for Pursuing a State of Flow”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 