This is a difficult and unnerving place to be:

You know that you’re at a pivot point in your life and you want to move forward, but you don’t yet have a vision for the future you want to move forward into.

To evolve into something new, you have to be willing to let go of the familiar narratives, habits, inputs, and interactions that don’t serve you and the future self you want to become.

Perhaps going sideways - or being still, hibernating, being in the goo of transition - is necessary for this yearning to grow and expand to build up.

What if you looked at your life less like a path and more like a painting you’re creating?

“I think at the time, it wasn’t even a conscious choice -- it was my soul, my being screaming out for help and forcing me to do the unthinkable: Something just for me that didn’t involve taking care of my family or working.”

It’s scary to dream bigger and want more because there’s no certainty that we’ll get what we want.

It’s “safer” to keep our wants small, to settle for just feeling OK, for a job we kinda sorta like, for a business that kinda sorta satisfies us, for not writing that book or picking up a paint brush…

Hopefulness is not wishful thinking. It’s your ability to set goals that excite you, have the willpower and agency to work towards them, and willingness to come up with different pathways to reach them.

If you want to build a life that is full of joy, aliveness, and deep alignment with what’s true to you, you need to first unravel the stories that keep you stuck in struggle.

As long as you deny yourself permission to do what pulls at you, what feels deeply good and aligned, you are blocking your life force…

We have to die to some old parts of our lives, our businesses, our ideas of who we are in order to uncover and evolve different parts of ourselves. 

No amount of self-care will help you to truly deeply feel better if you don’t believe that you deserve to feel good.

Making things with your hands improves your well-being, reduces stress, and even boosts your resilience. Here’s how to do it more often.

Here’s advice I wish I’d gotten as a recent college graduate: