1241: Embrace the detours!

Today I'm sharing a huge permission slip for all of us multi-passionates who have ever felt shamed for having our heads in the clouds or being flaky!

Episode transcript:

Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. Now before I get into today's daily pep, which was inspired by a conversation I had with mister Meg. I wanted to give you a friendly heads up that our word of the year workshop is happening tomorrow and I can't fucking wait. Having a word of the year has been absolutely instrumental for me over the past couple of years as a way of really having a compass to come back to and as a way really of theming the year rather than having all of these arbitrary expectations that we just end up beating ourselves up about. I found so many ways to keep your word front and center and I can't wait to gather as a cozy community to help you find your word and also to share with you some really fun ways to keep it top of mind and make it a priority in your life. So if you fancy an evening or morning or afternoon depending on where you are in the world of inspiration, connection, and clarity, I'd love to see you there. It's happening 6:30 PM UK time on Wednesday, and you can go find out more and sign up by going to the link in the show notes or by going to therebelrousers.comforward/wordoftheyear2025.

Now on to today's show. So January tends to be a time when we have a lot of conversations about our plans, our goals, and the big picture, and it is definitely no different for us in our house. We were having one of those conversations today, and I realized that once again, I completely derailed us, and we got completely off topic by going down yet another rabbit hole. And as I was trying to get us back onto track, mister Meg looked at me and said, it's okay to go on detours. And I figured that is exactly what I needed to hear, and I've got a feeling it might be what you need to hear as well. So often, we get our sights so fixed on the end destination that we forget that there's a fuckload of magic that happens in the detours, that happens on the side quests, and they are often the source of so much unexpected delight. For so many of us multipassionates, we might have hang ups about getting lost in the planning and the dreaming. We might consider ourselves flaky, or we might have heard disparaging things from others.

So it's no wonder that we try and get ourselves on one linear path. But we also, deep down, know that that's not really the way the world works. It truly is in the rambling and the misadventures and the detours that lead us to some really fun unexpected shit that we would have completely missed out on otherwise. So today, I wanna give both you and me a fuck off size permission slip to really embrace the detours, to go the long way around if the view's better, and to be okay with not knowing the exact route that you want or need to take. Often, there are many, many different routes that'll take us there, And I say we get to experience some magic as well. So those are my thoughts for you today. Have a good one. Happy Tuesday.

And I can't wait to see you back here bright and early in your ears tomorrow morning or in person ish on Zoom tomorrow night for my word of the year workshop. Take care.

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