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Over the years, I’ve written a shit-tonne about getting out of your own way, making shit happen and giving yourself permission to build a wholehearted creative life you love! Here you’ll find a selection of those articles!
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I don't know about you, but I'm often haunted by the Ghosts of Projects Past. I want to spend much more time in the creating stage than I do thinking about creating, but the planning and dreaming stage often feels so much safer.
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I really wanted to love creating a Substack. I was looking forward to watering it, nourishing it, tending to it, and growing it, but something just stopped me. So here’s what I’m doing instead.
If you’ve ever wondered what a life coach is, if you’ve wondered if it’s complete bullshit, if you’ve ever thought about hiring one but you’re not quite sure how it works or what they do, or if you’re simply curious about the whole thing, this post is for you!
We live in a world of shoulds.
We spend so much of our time thinking about what decision we should make, what we should do with our lives, our time, our money, our skills, our every minute.
And that’s not even touching on the minefield of what we think others think we should do when it comes to all of those things.
It’s exhausting.
More often than not, our shoulds feel heavier than any rucksack we could carry.
When I was nine, I remember regularly asking my Dad if it was possible to walk down every single street in the world.
“If you spent your whole life walking, would you be able to walk down every street around the world?” I would ask.
For some reason, I was pretty hung up on it.
Surely, if you spent every day you were alive walking down different streets, you could do it.
And I simply couldn’t fathom what he was talking about when he would reply that it wasn’t possible. I just couldn’t get my head around how big the world was.
But something changes when being nine is a distant memory.
We forget that there are almost unlimited number of things to explore and learn.
I’m not a huge fan of spiders. And I’m also not a huge fan of being reduced to pathetically standing on my bed hiding from a creepy crawly afraid to move an inch even though it’s at least five feet away from me and I’m approximately 99.98% bigger than it.
As a society there seems to be a pre-defined notion of how you’re expected to react to certain situations, how each emotion is ‘supposed’ to look and feel like and when you should feel each one. And along the way, we all put on a mask.
I can honestly say I don’t know why I haven’t been doing this my whole life.
I love to plan but I’d never thought of sitting down on a Sunday night, making it part of a really nice routine and bringing a lot more clarity and focus into my life. I now wake up on Monday feeling more ready to approach the week rather than deer stuck in headlights not knowing where to turn first.
You’re going to have days you feel uninspired. You’re going to have times where you literally can’t think of any ideas, and you’re going to have days where that feeling makes you feel shitty. But what do you do when they happen?