A couple months ago, probably on one of those sick days in May, when I took six naps a day and found myself occasionally awake, I fell deep into mermaid brain. The blues, purples, and silvers. The smooth textures of the insides of shells, and the rough textures of coral reefs. The enchantment of a deep sea world humans would never know. Now it’s July and I have a whole mermaid (snail mail) campaign nearly ready to go. This goes along with my 365 Notes project for the year. TBH the full mermaid suite is a lot of work and a lot of time, so I will need to figure out a smaller and more sustainable mini-ensemble. And all of these will go out before end of August, which to me is an official end to mermaid season LOL.

While I am glad to be off the road for a few weeks, getting things done around the house and home office, I’m just as busy. I have so much content to finish writing and producing, more admin and marketing work to support the workshops and courses I’m developing and delivering, and of course recharging the creative battery that gets it all done.

Also I am determined to binge watch The Bear, Season 3, before I accidentally read spoilers and get angry at the world for it, haha.

I’ve had two big revelations recently.

I have heard all year several things I have said (in some cases, ten or more years ago) that are now being published in popular books or otherwise said to me. In some cases it’s clear that I said a thing, someone heard it and internalized it so much that authorship got fuzzy, and now it’s coming back to me as someone else’s thought. In other cases, it’s not clear whether my saying something was original authorship, but it’s still annoying that an idea I developed years ago is now enjoying popularity being uttered by others who don’t even seem to have business models, lifestyles, and products that align with whatever their wise words are. All this to say: I keep thinking I need to wait till my thoughts are fully baked, but I don’t. Neither do you. So I plan to start sharing more wild and random thoughts here, even if I haven’t had “enough time” to process them fully.
I am at a point in my career where I might kick back and phone it in, but I don’t. I’m wired to keep pushing. And also, the people I work with and for are important enough to me to always do my best and try to be my best. But I am realizing that a lot of people at similar stages of their career do phone it in more often than not. It makes my work stand out even more, not just because of the quality, but also because of the effort, care, and purpose.

Anyone else feeling these things? And / or have you had any big revelations recently? Drop some thoughts in the comments if you wish, and let’s dissect them together.