{"id":49679,"date":"2015-04-23T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=49679"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:30:35","slug":"stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2015\/04\/23\/stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"What if We Stopped?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we stumbled on Seth Godin’s question “What if you stopped?<\/a>“, and….<\/p>\n

…we did stop for a minute to think about it.<\/p>\n

What if<\/strong> we stopped publishing Improvised Life?\u00a0<\/p>\n

What would happen to your audience if you shut the doors tomorrow? ..<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

What would happen to your customers and to your prospects if you stopped doing your work?<\/em><\/p>\n

If you stopped showing up<\/strong>, if you stopped selling them something, would they miss you if you were gone?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

If the airline went away, we’d just find another airline. If the cookie cutter politician went away, we’d just vote for someone else. If the typical life insurance agent…<\/em><\/p>\n

Does it matter if it’s you doing the work?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"What<\/p>\n

Judging from the emails we get, we know that a good number of people would miss us. We hear daily that Improvised Life is an essential reminder to practice thinking differently, that it has helped many readers shift how they view aspects of their lives, especially the difficult ones. We also know that we\u00a0are not for everyone. And that the “market” will\u00a0determine how long, and in what form, we continue. Nothing is for “always”.<\/p>\n

Although we LOVE making Improvised Life, we live with the possibility of not<\/em> publishing \u00a0because of the\u00a0financial realities of keeping going. To live, we need both $$ AND\u00a0to grow our readership.<\/p>\n

\"Holton
Holton Rower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Want Improvised Life to keep publishing? There are many\u00a0ways to help (some of them may surprise you):<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

\u2014Become a member <\/a>if you aren’t yet one, OR renew your subscription.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2014GIFT\u00a0a subscription to a friend or two. It’s easy to do. Simply click here<\/a> or the ‘Gift Improvised Life’ box on the sidebar.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2014Pass on articles you read to people who may not know about us, via email, Twitter or your own Facebook.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2014Like our\u00a0Improvised Life’s Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0(you don’t have to be a member of FB to do it).\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2014Sign up for our daily email.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AND…<\/p>\n

…please keep letting us know what you think, want, don’t like, love…<\/strong><\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

With thanks\u00a0to our awesome community,<\/p>\n

Sally and Improvised Life<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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