1606 William Shakespeare Was in Quarantine Content Content Content

byAlexEvans

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Fair is Foul and foul is fair; hover through the fog and filthy air.

The Reprise of Rapture.

English teacher is in the raptures of delight;

"You people are barbarians and yet slothful creatures who sadly do not realize the error of your ways."

Response from the class; " yes sir ".

I went to a school where the concrete steps were worn down over time due to the passage of students plodding their way class to class.

The text above is the opening lines from " Macbeth. " A play penned by William Shakespeare, while in quarantine housebound because of one of the outbursts of the plague. Which was an ongoing affair back in the day?

It was a very productive time, and he also penned King Lear and Anthony and Cleopatra. A literary genius.

One would have to say that they have indeed stood the test of time and in literature are apex expressions; for the purest, they are formed in the bedrock of the language.

Time is powerful

The most powerful thing about time is that it changes; it changes, yet things have this capacity to stay the same. Everything is relative.

The thought penny will drop shortly for sure. You are probably all having those moments on the hour, as we all grapple with redefining our lives, relationships, work, and or businesses—one of those times when we can be forgiven for having those moments of that endless internal silence.

From talking with clients, family, friends, loved ones, and associates, one of the things that have caught us in the middle, is the speed at which this is evolving.

New is okay, new that if forced on you, it can be hard to navigate. I would assume that if you live, you have new in your lives; sometimes new is good, and like a natural disaster, new can bring challenges.

I am not sure where all this is heading, and I would be the last person to give reflective advice. The song is always off-key and the beat, well it is a beat, a different drum.

I was reflecting on one of my first mentors who passed late last year; he had this incredible energy when in full flight, which was 95% of the time. In life and business, he had this drive to work on building your invisible fortune. It was intangible and not something that could be included on a balance sheet.

He was a total classic, whom I meet by chance, but then what we think as chance is it?

Always he looked for ways to help, build connections, and provide solutions and outcomes. Generating money was not the primary focus. His measure of success was the intangible assets that he created.

Your reputation is the bank of your invisible fortune.

Creatives have such a golden opportunity to work on building their invisible fortune at this time, that investment of energy, will in time, return to you.

I can imagine that William would have been sitting there captive, yet his situation would have empowered him to write and create. It is all relative.

When we think in terms of Wealthy Affiliate, we are in that unique position as well, the intangible, I am always attracted to that ethos of paying it forward. I have been watching the interactions over the last week; you develop this sense of pride to be associated.

Stripped away, the engine room of this gig is content creation.

There is a gulf between thinking about it and doing it, take the plunge and what a good time to do it. The most significant focal point in the present time is to go out and help.

Build that reputation.

You may just be starting and think, but I have no traffic, I brought into that at one time, the thing is that the people who need to read, will, and then more people will come and still more. It can come back to intent, do we want to build our bank balance or our invisible fortunes.

Thank you for taking the time to read—best wishes to you, my Shakespearian friends.

Alex Evans