388: Build a life YOU love

If you've ever been called flaky or struggled with this idea of being a jack of all trades, this one's for you!

Episode transcript:

Good morning Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. Now, yesterday we were given ourselves a mission to let go of the things that no longer serve us and any things where our interest has waned, but we feel like we've put a decent amount of time and energy into it and just let that shit. And today, following on from that, we are diving into this whole idea of flakiness as multi-passionate people.

Now as people who are interested in many things, we know that our interests tend to come and go. We've got a pretty eclectic collection of stuff and so many books and so many different topics. And one of the things I think we struggle with as a bit of a jack of all trade, Is this idea of being flaky. We worry what other people think of us.

We get frustrated when we are really deep down the rabbit hole or something, but then we just wake up the next day and our interest just isn't there. And it can be really easy to see ourselves as people who don't commit or people who don't finish things. Now today, I wanna remind you that there are so many reasons that we don't commit to as multi-passionates. So I actually think one of our superpowers is that we usually tend to have an intuitive sense of what doesn't feel good anymore and when to just stop. But we get really into our heads about what that means. We really look into it, and sometimes we just feel like we have to prove ourselves or other people wrong and show that we can follow through.

But here's the. You do finish and you do follow through on so many things, and it's okay to let the things that no longer interest you or light you up go. You have nothing to prove to anybody else around here. We are all about birthing a life you love, not a life that other people love on your behalf.

And if something just doesn't feel good, don't hold onto it because you wanna prove that you can commit to things, you can finish things or you're not fla. The thing is the people who see you that way, well they're not the ones doing it and chances are they don't care as much as you do. And I mean that in the most loving kind of way.

They're not actually that affected by whether you commit or finish things as you think. What we all logically know, but I think we tend to kind of forget, is. One of the other brilliant things and the superpowers that comes with being multi-passionate is that you bring all of the things you've learned and all of your experiences and all of your skills onto your next project, and nothing is ever wasted.

It makes you such a good problem solver. You can bring so many different perspectives to the table that other people can't, and you do that by regularly changing things. So if you've got something on your plate, whether that's a project or otherwise, that you are feeling fresher to just follow through on or commit to because you wanna start changing this narrative of being flaky or somebody who doesn't finish things, let that thing go and let's reframe that narrative in other ways.

We all thrive on excitement and interesting things, and when that goes, things just start to feel like a. And life is too short to have our interests and our hobbies feel like chores. The fact is, you are somebody that finishes things, but you don't need to finish this particular thing to prove a point, not to yourself or anybody.

So take this as a permission slip You need today. Know that you are actually not flaky and you have many superpowers and focus on that. I. Have a good one, and I'll see you tomorrow.

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