Abe Newmeyer
The Synthesizer
The promotion. The house. The weight you lost. Did any of it make you greater?
I asked myself that question for years. I wrote my way toward an answer, and Be Greater is what came out of it.
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Be Greater
What happens inside them is shared with the people who join.
Not what you were told to want.
That summer, unemployed, I told a close friend I’d be in the Philippines before the end of the year. He doubted it. I called him from Manila after Thanksgiving.
“I took a prep course, studied at home, and became immersed with the material. I passed the exam on my first attempt.”Setting the Stage, April 10, 2024
The process is most of the journey.
“From no routine to two or so hours of walking, running, reading and meditation to writing my gratitude lists. This routine I’ve kept the longest.”Back On Track, April 15, 2024
Easy to take for granted until it changes.
“Three months ago I couldn’t stand unassisted. Today, I’m able to get up and go for walks and what not without any pain medication.”Living Your Legacy, May 10, 2024
Who this is for
I would rather say so now than waste your time or mine.
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About
I started in data entry, then waited tables to get out of my shell. After that came retail sales (home improvements, then hardware, then electronics), network marketing, life insurance, and financial services. Over thirty positions in at least four industries. Each one prepared me for the next, and when the newness wore off, I started over.
Then I was untethered. My parents died within seven months of each other, and they weren’t the first people I loved to die. I sold the house I grew up in and left Fort Worth. At 45 I wrote the first draft of my first book in 72 days in Rio de Janeiro, then came back to the States and spent about a year as a FEMA disaster inspector and then an SBA loan officer. On Thanksgiving Day 2018 I flew to the Philippines on a one-way ticket that was meant to cover five or six weeks. I’m still here.
Years before, living alone, I had started writing a gratitude list every morning. It began as a way to commune with my Creator and to stave off depression. I never meant to publish them. It’s the routine I’ve kept longer than any other.
In February 2024 I was on the back of a motorcycle (a habal habal, as the locals call it) when a small cargo truck hit us from behind. I don’t remember it. I’ve only seen the security-camera footage. Five broken ribs, a broken right arm, three weeks in the hospital, and months of relearning simple things. I still write.
Abe Newmeyer is the name that fits who I am now. The man I was before died on February 1, 2024.
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