Welcome in Pause Before Life Forces You To
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Happy Sunday Creatives,
”The only one expected to respect your boundaries are you. It helps you create the rules that you want others to follow.”
These are words that I often tell my clients. As creatives, if you don’t know when to take a break from a project to go eat, when an opportunity isn’t for you or when you have too much on your plate to take on another gig, how will anyone else know?
In this moment, I’m being forced to respect my own boundaries as the cooties got ya girl! Thankfully, I wasn’t taken down too bad and I’m at the tail end of it (I hope?), but I also know that if I keep acting like my optimal self, it would make recovery harder. I’ve been taking it extremely slow, napping even when I didn’t think I needed to, saying no even when I really wanted to say yes and taking the easy way out when granted the opportunity. Yet welcoming in the quiet allowed me to hear a voice that let me know “You can win, even at the slowest of speeds.”
So while I’m annoyed that I don’t have a full email prepared for the week, I’m grateful for the ability to pivot, do what’s within my capacity and the greater sense of motivation that has come with slowing down which makes me excited to get caught up on projects and pursue some ideas that have been waiting to come to life once I’m back to feeling my best self.
I share this in hopes that you give yourself permission to not give your all at all times. As you see other creatives making leaps and bounds and question if you’re doing or working hard enough, maybe what you need right now is quiet to receive the wisdom on how to move forward that doesn’t exhaust and force you to slow down.
Your Creative Guidance This Week
To be placed in seasons of inaction, limited progression or silence isn’t to punish you, but maybe is moment to hear the call that is coming from inside the house. Creativity comes in some of the most mundane of moments, yet you must be willing to see these as jewels versus rocks of sorrow. How are you creating quietude to hear the wisdom within you?
Inspired by The Olympians with Pluto’s Lament. Download the full Create Quiet Playlist.
Until next week!
Be Creative,
Chalice