268: Find the unexpected treasure
Today we're diving into the importance of experimenting, and leaning into uncertainty.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. You're listening to the Daily Pep, which is the only daily podcast for creative, multipassionate, and frankly, fabulous women who are already making the world a brighter place just by being in it. Now we talk a lot on the daily prep about creativity, about getting started, about finishing projects. And today, I wanna dive into one of my very favorite topics, and that's this idea of experimenting. I think so many of us are avid planners. We love all the post it notes, and we love having a game plan and an action plan. We like to know where we're headed. We like to know what we have to do along the way, and we're not such a huge fan of the word uncertainty.
But today, I encourage you just to throw planning to the wind for a bit and just dive deep into experimenting because experimenting is where the magic happens. And there are so many different ways to experiment. Maybe you're experimenting with trying out a new medium. Maybe you're experimenting with where you want to be in life and where you fit. Maybe you're experimenting with habits, with daily routines, or you could be experimenting in a million of different other ways. But the reason I bang on about experimenting so much on the daily PEP is that it allows you to approach things with curiosity and I think it really helps to remove that sense of failure or success, which I know all of us can get so trapped into. But more than that, experimenting helps you discover parts of yourself that you probably wouldn't discover otherwise. Experimenting gives you the shovel that allows you to dig holes and find parts of yourself that are completely unexpected or you didn't know existed.
So my reminder and my encouragement for you today is this, put away the planning for a second. Follow something that you maybe even just be mildly curious about or have an inkling about. Try something you've never tried before or do something in a completely new way. The chances are that whether it, quote, fails or succeeds, you are gonna learn something about yourself along the way that you will probably end up taking to a bunch of other projects you do, and you are laying the framework and the breadcrumbs of things that you might not be able to see the big picture of right now, but that definitely lie ahead. So here's to leaning into that uncertainty. Here's to experimenting, and here's to finding parts of yourself that you didn't know existed, and really finding the treasure that awaits. Have a fabulous Thursday, and I can't wait to see you back here tomorrow. Have a good one.
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