Wherever you go, there you are. A friend mentioned this idea on a mastermind call over the weekend, and it fit perfectly with some things I’ve been thinking about lately. In the newsletter I sent out Friday* I wrote about a little creativity experiment I’m doing during the month of November. I committed to sewing [...]
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Working on Stuff
As someone who has spent a long time thinking things will be better just as soon as I (insert green grass here), asking myself “then what?” has become pretty freaking important. Actually it sounds more like “yeah but… then what?” What happens after I get the thing that I (think I) want? In the past, it might [...]
After this little incident that happened last week, I felt decidedly uncool. And this is the last incident-related post, I swear. I’m pretty sure. (Obsess much?) Anyway. I want to mention this pretty significant epiphany I had. Because it was huge for me and the way I got there might help you when your own [...]
Last time was all about my sequence of thoughts and feelings that welled up in response to an icky, but minor, incident. I also mentioned how step 5, meeting yourself where you are, is the pivotal step. My understanding of which comes by way of Havi Brooks and plenty of her destuckification wisdom. Now for some things that [...]
Personal post alert: This one’s not so much about the practical aspects of … well … anything. More to do with the personal stuff that comes up when you put yourself out there in pursuit of your thing. I had a very icky thing happen on Friday that dredged up a whole bunch of my [...]
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett I read an article this week reporting that new research shows our brains only learn from success. Fan-freaking-tastic. (Caution: Article = very science-y. Think MIT academics with the best brains in the world studying, you guessed it, brains.) I was [...]
Yeah, pointless because sometimes you’re up, and sometimes you’re sleeping on your parents’ couch. I have a close childhood friend who is a rare specimen. She loves her job. Weird, right? And yes, I think that alone makes her unique. But also, she knew at 19 exactly what she liked doing and she persistently felt [...]
For the longest time my most fervent desire has been to find my purpose, and to throw myself into it wholeheartedly. I want to wake up every morning excited to start my day, and work passionately at something that brings joy and fulfillment. And this dream is actually coming true. These days I’m so full [...]
The anxious feeling of choosing teams is all too familiar. Or rather, the sinking pit of humiliation that rears up when we’re not chosen. And even though most of us have left the dodgeball field behind, this pattern tends to pop back up occasionally in my adult life. I recently started a training, and our [...]
