So this is the weekend plan
Oh, hi friends!
Hello, almost weekend.
Do you have an agenda? Can you make one? Put down your phone. Carve out some space. Read a book. Craft something. Make something. Write something. Say something.
The motor will start running Monday no matter what. Give yourself a rest until then.
Oh, Mary Oliver. From @karlawelchstylist
Hey. Is This You?
Before pursuing theater, Jessica Vosk worked as an associate for a New York-based investor relations firm with global clients. She took the job six months before graduating college in 2007 and was promoted three times in three years. The job was secure and stable: Vosk earned close to six figures, lived in her own apartment in the affluent Upper West Side, shopped at Ann Taylor “like it was my job,” and opened a retirement account.
But, a few years into the job, pangs of anxiety and panic attacks hit her at work. “I don’t know where they came from,” Vosk says.
“Once, I sat in my office and I thought, ‘Hm, I wonder if I’m not really doing what it is I love.’ And it all came to a head at that point.” ....
... “If I had given into the fact of being scared, I would never be here,” Vosk says. “Half of the triumphs that I’ve had in my life are because I decided to do the things that made me feel uncomfortable.”
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Her leap had a great ending. What a story about how Jessica Vosk ended up starring in Wicked on Broadway.
Do you get nervous before you try something new? Here’s what you can say to yourself instead: “This is so exciting.”
Good ~2 min video with advice from Simon Sinek.
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Love, Kara