Embracing the calm

The tension soup made from financial pressure, fierce drive, and a passion for my work doesn’t always taste good. It burns me out, bringing on a destructive overwhelm. But I’m getting better.

Since Paradiso festival in Mexico, I’ve focused on reduced task sheets, allowing myself a little more time to enjoy things, feel the flow, and act accordingly, in tune with my energy.

And while I feel more idle (a wholly good thing), I feel more alive, aware, and tuned into the source. I’m not a religious man, so don’t read this as divine. By source, I mean the irrefutable everything we belong to, the same source everything in this world belongs to. Eco systems emanate from it. It’s subatomic, if that’s the right word… Oh I don’t know – words fail me with this stuff because it’s just so much more than our language.

Anyway, things are happening in accordance with this feeling. I’ve begun a great, exciting conversation with PJ Richardson, Laundry co-founder, who shared a book signing with me at Paradiso. Other meaningful chats have happened since, with people who were just… there. Part of it.

I’m giving myself to the things that I feel drawn to.

Reading with my morning coffee if that’s what will nourish.

Getting rid of abitrary numbers assigned to emails to send to prospective clients and looking for coffees – proper chats – remote or in person so we can begin relationships.

And unsurprisingly, some magic has begin to break down the unreasonable amount of anxiety these last few weeks.

Feel the brush of those invisible hands.