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  • What's going on?

    Thoughts

    What’s Going On?

    November 2, 2022January 27, 2023

    What’s going on for you? Do you know how you’re feeling? What are you thinking? Why do you do the things you do? Many of us are simply unaware of what’s going on for us. We move through our day not paying attention to what we’re thinking and feeling.

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  • What's Your Story?

    Thoughts

    What’s Your Story?

    April 3, 2021January 27, 2023

    A situation happens at work and your mind is spinning about it. So many different thoughts go through your head it makes you dizzy. Your mind keeps going round and round in a loop, repeating the same thing over and over. 

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  • Perfection is an Illusion

    Mindset

    Perfection. It’s an Illusion.

    January 21, 2021January 27, 2023

    The best part of coaching creatives is I have the privilege of talking to designers every day. I hear many designers talk about passion projects that never get done and about believing things need to be done right or not at all.

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    I feel a sea change. Do you? . Working with my cli I feel a sea change. Do you? . Working with my clients, I notice how unprecedented times in the world bring about the desire for big changes in our own lives. . A global pandemic has shaken up our world and we are gaining new perspectives on our life and what we want. Now is the time to ask yourself: Am I living a life that is meaningful to me? How can I start to follow my creative calling? . As a white person, recognizing my own racism is important work to do. What questions are you asking yourself? Are you willing to take steps to be on the right side of history? Are you willing to fight for racial justice and to fight against other social injustices? How do you want to show up and who do you want to be? . Are you being mindful of taking good care of yourself? Many of us are feeling guilty because we feel we haven't experienced the same pain and suffering as other people affected by Covid-19. . It’s not helpful to compare your own suffering to other people’s suffering. We all suffer. Nurture yourself well so you can help others. We need to take care of one another right now more than ever. . I'm curious... How have you changed? Share with me... what’s on your mind?
    A design giant. Will be missed. RIP. Milton Glaser A design giant. Will be missed. RIP. Milton Glaser. (1929-2020)
    Your actions matter. #Repost @lisacongdon ・・・ “Friday I posted about some actions I was going to take as a white person around continuing to unlearn and undo our deeply ingrained, systemic racism and becoming a more effective anti-racist. I didn’t do this for pats on the back or acknowledgement or affirmation. I did it because I am not interested in being a passive ally (or practicing “optical allyship”). I want my good intentions to always be coupled with action, and I want to be accountable. Otherwise, I am contributing nothing. I encourage everyone to not just support black lives with posts of solidarity. Read, learn, march, support black owned businesses, donate, protect, take courses, have hard conversations, volunteer for local social justice organizations. Your actions matter. There are a plethora of resources and information on the Internet and on Instagram right now. You can find many of them in the comments on Friday’s post. Tomorrow I’ll be discussing some things I’m learning in the book I’m reading: How to be an Antiracist by @ibramxk. 🖤” @lisacongdon
    How’s your relationship with yourself? #Repost @ How’s your relationship with yourself? #Repost @dvf ・・・ How are you practicing self-care this holiday season?
    Very moving insight from super talented Lisa Congd Very moving insight from super talented Lisa Congdon #Repost @lisacongdon ・・・ True story: for the first three and a half decades of my life, whenever anything didn’t go the way I wanted it to or the way I thought it should, I felt like a victim. A victim of other people’s cruelty or whims or disregard for me; a victim of bad circumstances; a victim of bad luck; a victim of being inherently unlovable, unworthy, and invisible. “Why me?” was my refrain. As a result, I was deeply depressed and anxious. I started going to therapy, and my therapist suggested to me in the kindest, most gentle way, that I was using my victimhood as a way of not taking responsibility for anything in my life – including my ability to hold a healthy relationship or solid friendships and my unhappiness at my job, and my sense of having no purpose. I was so desperate not to feel unhappy anymore that I began listening to her and taking in everything she had to say, and opened myself up to the possibility this was true. She also suggested that if I began taking responsibility for my choices and behavior, I might begin to feel more agency and power to shape my life differently. It was painful to realize how much of my heartache in my adult life I had created with this deep identification with being unworthy and a victim of bad luck — and how much of my life and time I had wasted. But it also meant something new and important! If I could change my own narrative about my life, and, most importantly, if I could begin taking responsibility for my choices instead of blaming others (or the universe or god) – I might actually experience more joy and calm and purpose. I began making different choices about how I spent my time and who I spent it with. I began trying new things. I began making art! And eventually I made art my life and career. I have my former therapist to thank! My life began transforming. We can’t prevent hard things but we can choose how we react to them. I’ve also heard it said this way: if you are not changing it, you are choosing it. I think about this nearly every day in some way: taking responsibility for our choices is essential to growth and happiness and transformation.
    I love your vulnerability @elizabeth_gilbert_write I love your vulnerability @elizabeth_gilbert_writer Thank you! ❤️ #Repost @elizabeth_gilbert_writer ・・・ Hey everyone. I’ve been talking about this a lot lately in interviews. Most recently, I had a conversation about it with the wonderful @fearnecotton, on her podcast, HAPPY PLACE. The reality of my life is this: Managing my mental health is very nearly a full-time job. I don’t take it lightly, because the stakes are high. Like many of us, I have a mind that is a very dangerous neighborhood. Left unattended, my mind will fester, rot, and roll me over the brink into anxiety and depression. I have a particularly muscular storytelling instinct—and the world has rewarded me generously for that! —but the dark side of my gift is that my mind is also capable of generating terrible, frightening, life-annihilating stories about myself and about the world. I can scare the living shit out of myself, and—in the process—destroy my life. The battle begins quite literally the moment I wake up in the morning. With the first moment of consciousness, the insanity begins. The terrorist who lives inside my mind begins bullying and threatening me. But I’m not powerless. Over the years I’ve adapted practices to keep my mind flourishing and my life contented. The first thing I do every single morning is pray. (Specifically, I pray to be relieved from the bondage of self.) Then I meditate. Then I dance. Then I write myself a letter from Love. (This is the most important part of my day, when I connect to Love herself, and ask her what she would have me know today.) Then I do a @byron.katie Worksheet on a stressful belief. (Go to TheWork.com to learn more.) At various times in my life, I have gone (or will go) to therapy, to yoga, to 12-step programs. I’ve taken medication at times. Whenever I see a church door open, I walk in, take a knee, and pray. I try to reach out to somebody every day with a message of Love, which ends up helping ME. I practice generosity, which also helps ME. It’s an all-day job. It’s why I go to bed so early, so I wake up early, and begin tending to my mental health! It’s a lot. But nothing matters more, and nobody else can do it for me. I accept sacred stewards
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