Oh, hi friends!
What is the difference between comfortable and dormant?
Your work can get to a comfortable place: easy, smooth, unchallenging.
It can also get to a dormant place: quiet, passive, and stagnant.
You might feel happy in a comfortable place, but dissatisfied with a dormant one. There’s always that itch. When you know you can give more.
Where are you now?
Where do you want to go from here?
“So, with a new year and beginnings that come with it, I hope that it also brings more graceful endings, too. Endings that celebrate learnings, endings that close paths peacefully, endings that allow for more time to bake pies.”
This is from an email exchange with my friend Alex Jeffries (whose newsletters on projects, life in Paris, and pies are always some of my favorite words to receive in the inbox). I’m sharing it because I know it’s going to resonate with many of you.
Yes, this is a season of new, new, new. I feel that energy all around us.
But allow yourself to also commit to the graceful endings. The ones you know you need.
Why does an ending have to be difficult?
Why can’t it exist with grace?
Getting Organized on an Extremely Granular Level
A neighbor was moving out and gave me stuff to keep or give away to Buy Nothing folks. She handed me these blue trays. Huh, what are these? Some kind of sporting equipment? (She has an eight-year-old grandson.)
Turns out they are PUZZLE PIECE ORGANIZERS. And my life was forever changed.
I had to share with you in case you could use a tray or two to separate edge pieces from middles and blues from yellows.
Or the reminder there are tools that exist to help you, on every level.