Boron - Chapter 20

And what else did I do? Well, I have sat down and written
this letter to you all about the event.

So, anyway, I still haven't gotten to what this has to do
with writing a good sales promotion or, a "good anything"
for that matter so, here it is: What I am doing, Bond, by
all this writing and road work is that I am "clearing the
deck" and getting (in so far as possible) this garbage out
of my system so that my strategic decisions and my future
letters and ideas will be clear!

Please remember this word: HALT. HALT stands for hungry,
angry, lonely and tired and you should never make a decision
when you are any of those things.

What should you do? What I did. Write, run, walk, talk, jog,
etc.

But be careful who you talk with and write to. You see, it
should be someone who realizes that all this must be
considered as "time out babble".

You see, Bond it really doesn't matter much what the
"content" of this letter is. What matters is that I am going
through the "process" of writing it. And it is the process
or physical act of the writing and the road work that
does the therapy. Remember this:

You Don't Have To Get It Right...

You Just Have To Get It MOVING!

And now, in closing, let me tell you another true prison
story. It is about another encounter I had that was very
different than this one. You see, in the event I just
described my roommate wasn't trying to "bulldog" me or shove
me around. He just lost his temper in a childish way and
doesn't have the "emotional tools" to respond to such a
situation with maturity.

But this other one was different. You see, we have this
black guy here at Boron (never mind his name) who is very
strong and very loud. He lifts weights all the time and he
is forever yelling (more prison talk - unprintable).