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Where COULD YOU BE in six months if you got starte

Where COULD YOU BE in six months if you got started today? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I have heard over and over from creative women that it feels impossible to create what they dream about. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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They don’t know where to start.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Guess what happens when you believe that?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You don’t start. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you don’t start, you’re right, it is impossible for you to create what you dream about.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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— Read that again! —⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you’re ready to start (and BECOME the person who picks a goal and realizes their dreams), pick one thing to do today and decide when you’ll do it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Do the same tomorrow. And the day after that. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It is that SIMPLE. Seriously. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Just do what you know right now (I often say: do what you have a hunch about) and know that you’ll get more information through the doing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That’s how anything gets made. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Think about it: the magic of creating art is in the process. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You start with an idea and get to work in your medium of choice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You experiment and problem solve in real time. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The not knowing and discovering is so exciting!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Who knows exactly where you’ll end up!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Creating your dream project is no different. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you think it’s different, ask yourself: why? Listen to what your mind offers you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Then know this:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It can be just like your playful and experimental art practice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It can be fun and exciting and unknown, and you might hold your breath a little bit along the way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Pick one thing and start today. Six-months-from-today you will be so glad you did.

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You will always be in progress. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You’ll never be ‘complete’. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What fun would that be complete anyway? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I think the fun of life is: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
✨ possibility⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✨ growing⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
✨ transforming⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When I feel pressure to just get there already, I ask myself: why do I want to be ‘complete’? The answer to that question is your work, friend.

No matter what you do, you’ll never be better th

No matter what you do, you’ll never be better than you currently are 🤲⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This is for my high achievers — I say this with all the love in my heart. [Hang with me through the terrible grammar in this post - it's intentional]⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I think many of us (myself included) believe that we can outwork and outsmart ‘the system’ to be better than we are. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That if we do/be/are *more,* then we’ll be able to finally relax and believe we are good enough (better than we currently are). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🎤 Here’s what I want you to know: whatever you do or create or accomplish or achieve or attain - none of it affects your worth (good OR bad). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you’re like me, this might come as a relief for not being able to be ‘more bad’, but a major bummer about not being able to increase your goodness. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When this comes up for me, here’s what I ask myself: why do I want to be ‘good-er’ than I currently am? The answer to that question is your work, my friend.

If you want to establish a new habit, I have two t

If you want to establish a new habit, I have two tips for you:
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👆You need to find the reasons WHY you want to do the habit consistently
✌️ You need to make it EASY to do
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If you are trying to establish a new habit and you find that you aren’t doing it, it is highly likely that you aren’t doing one of those two things.
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Other things that can be helpful:
👍 Start small
👍 Break it down and make it so easy to do that you can’t imagine not doing it, even on your busiest day (ex. start a writing habit by just having to write down the date and the day’s journal prompt and that’s it)
👍 Build the habit with self-kindness and care (see above: WHY you want to do it)
👍 Commit to having the identity for 90 days
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If you want to learn more about building habits that stick, you have two options:
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👊 Sign up for The Daily-ish Writer waitlist (link in bio). I’m spending a year with this round’s cohort supporting them as they establish their daily-ish writing habit. You won’t find another program like it (trust me, I looked and looked).
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👊 Sign up for a Passion Project Planning Session — we’ll meet and brainstorm your project. My 1:1 clients get immediate access to The Daily-ish Writer (and so much more).

Stop trying so hard 🛑 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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For many of us, especially overachiever types, over-trying is keeping us from creating what we really want to create. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You might not need to ‘do more’— you might need to do less (but better). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Let me share an example: after years of trying to keep an orchid alive, I have TWO that are generating new buds. [You might remember this when I ‘tried really hard’ in the past and queried for advice]. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2. They are happy and healthy enough to create a new bloom spike. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Here’s what’s different — I left them alone and dribbled water in about once a week. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That’s it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I didn’t overact — I didn’t water them every couple days or check on them constantly or move them from one spot to another. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I didn’t obsess about their health or if the root that’s sticking out looks healthy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I just let them be. And they are thriving. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What would your passion project look like if you let it be more? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you took the action you need to (ie watering the orchid weekly-ish) from certainty that it knows what to do to thrive? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That means following your inner hunches (‘hmm I haven’t watered the orchid in a week and the leaves look a little shriveled so I’ll go dribble some in’). And then letting go and trusting. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What could be different?

Is this you? — ‘I need to do more to earn my r

Is this you? — ‘I need to do more to earn my rest/downtime’. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Me too. And I want to share how this shows up for me and how I work with it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I take every fourth week off from client calls and have a ‘deep work week’. It’s time for me to have uninterrupted time on a specific project, take a training or prepare for a certification, or take a trip. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I LOVE that I started this practice a little more than a year ago. It’s a way I can take care of myself — I love to balance a long interrupted stretches of deep work week with three weeks of calls. It’s a way for me to take care of myself as an introvert.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Even though I plan for them, and I love my reasons for them, my mind tells me things like: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
😒 You need to do more to earn this downtime ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
😒Maybe you should only take one every six weeks.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
😒All the amazing work you do isn’t enough, do more. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
😒 Be productive at all costs, even if it leads to burnout, keep pushing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🤲 It makes so much sense that I’m feeling this way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🤲 But I can step in and redirect to the desire states that I intentionally want to feel: ease, spaciousness, compassion. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🤲 That is the energy I want to work and create from. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🤲 I don’t really get much done when I am pressuring myself anyway. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🤲 I don’t need to earn my rest, ever. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🤲 When I feel even a little tapped out, I rest. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🤲 That’s who I’m becoming.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you haven’t learned the skill of holding compassionate space and redirecting, I can teach you that and lots more. Head to the link in my bio and book a Passion Project Planning Session. We’ll brainstorm a plan for you to finally create the project you think about a lot and set goals for (but never seems to get done).

It’s Wednesday, so that means it’s the perfect

It’s Wednesday, so that means it’s the perfect day to tell you what a great day I had on SATURDAY 😂
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I received a wonderful massage (w/energy work!) from @lauranakuhlman 💆‍♀️
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Then I asked myself an important question: what sounds good right now?
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What sounded good was a matcha, at 4pm! I never drink caffeine after 2pm but I went for it. And two tacos.
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While I was waiting for my tacos I spent those minutes journaling rather than scrolling my phone.
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And I finished my quilted coat so I could wear it on a blustery day 🥰 (will share it soon — I *love* it).
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It’s so fun to create experiences for yourself. All that’s required is asking yourself: what sounds good right now? Then do that with joy in your heart that you get to provide that for yourself. 🤲

Your life changes when you wholly believe in your

Your life changes when you wholly believe in your goodness 🙇‍♀️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When you believe that your worth is intact no matter what. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Like Reese here -- he KNOWS he is worthy and good always. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In fact I'd say he's a tiny bit entitled too. 😇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Here's how I know: when I'm petting his head, he closes his eyes and braces for my next pet, before I've finished the current one 😆.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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He knows that another pet is always coming 🤗.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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How do you come to believe in your wholeness, goodness, and worth? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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By discovering and obliterating everything that’s currently standing in the way. It takes just a little bit of time and loving space. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You can do it yourself but it is more fun and lots quicker if you do it with someone else (someone who has done it themself - this is critical. It’s one thing to understand it intellectually and a whole other thing to have viscerally experienced it). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you're ready to remember your inherent goodness so you can find the inspiration + momentum you need to finally create your passion project then I'd love to invite you to a Passion Project Planning Session.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We'll meet and chat about:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- your passion project that’s on your heart⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- WHY you want to create it⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- what’s in the way⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- and determine if it's a good fit to work together. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
If this resonates for you, check out the link in bio 💫

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