Hey Reader Before we get into this week's tip, just a heads up that the Summer Creative Retreat is happening! 🥳 Long story short, it features 60 free workshops from a bunch of awesome artists and creatives (and me) for a week of creative fun. If you’ve been feeling a little creatively burnt out or just want to try something new, we'd love to have you with us. Check out the workshop line-up All the workshops are free to attend and replay throughout the week, or you can grab the Permanent...
11 days ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader You might have heard that I'm getting married 👰 The wedding is at the end of August which is fast approaching and there's still heaps to do, but at the moment, I'm feeling oddly calm about it. (Let's see how long that lasts, haha 😂) Despite being engaged since 2018, it took until January this year for Vogel and I to decide we were actually going to get this done. Being a planner person, one of the things I was most excited about for this big life project was getting to make a...
18 days ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader Despite ending last week feeling accomplished, this week my motivation has...slipped a bit 😅 With wanting to make as much progress as I can in our 3 Months to Change Your Life challenge, I don't want this slump (or what I'm calling a "mini-slump") to derail me. (I figure if I call it a mini-slump, I won't let it get any bigger 😝) While getting back on track is my number one priority, I had to start with examining why I felt this way 🤔 Part of it was just logistics. After the...
25 days ago • 5 min read
Hey Reader This week I’ve been doing something that feels super exciting and just a little lottle daunting. A whole house declutter 😈 While I do ideally want to tackle my digital spaces as well, this week I figure I'd just focus on the physical spaces. As said, I'm really excited about this project; I’ve actually been researching and prepping for over a month now 😂 Finally getting started has felt like a bit of a milestone, but even with the preparation, some decisions are still hard. Even as...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader Before we get into this week's newsletter, I just wanted to give you an invitation to the challenge we're running at the moment 😈 We've been calling it "3 Months to Change Your Life" (or I've just been calling it CYL for short 😂) but the long-story-short is every participant has picked at least one thing they want to work on or improve over July - September that will have a positive impact on their life. For more information about the challenge and how to get involved, either head...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader How long does it take to "change your life"? 🤔 This is a question I've been asking myself recently, especially given the rut I've found myself in during Quarter 2. Even though I started Q2 with a lot of motivation and enthusiasm, things quickly fell away when I found myself in a major slump. I'd been excited to make progress, but the reality was that I just felt stagnant. Projects that I'd been eager to work on got neglected and a lot of my goals were pushed to the backburner....
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader While January 1st gets a lot of hype for being a potential fresh start, I'm often more excited about mid-year 😝 Not only is it a natural starting point for new goals and projects, it also feels softer than New Years. The mid-year crossover doesn't come with the same perfectionistic pressure that a lot of us feel when moving into a new calendar year, but it still makes for a good milestone moment. While I'm certainly eager to move into Quarter 3, I'm also still carrying some...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Hey Reader New journal season is slowly approaching 😈 While this is always an exciting time (I love seeing what people put into their setups) it can also be a somewhat panic inducing one... What do I actually need in my new journal? What if I forget to include something? What if my new setup doesn't work for me? After setting up over 40 new journals since 2016, you'd think these concerns would be a thing of the past for me. You’d think, having set up that many journals, I’d be at a point of...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Hey Reader Lately I've been obsessed (and driving Vogel up the wall 😝) with a song called "Do It Anyway" by Yoshi2.0. In the lyrics, he runs through all the different emotions you could be feeling and reminds you to do the thing anyway. “I do it anyway, I do it sad, I do it mad, I do it gladI do it anyway, I do it stressed, I do it depressed, I do it obsessedI do it anyway, even when I’m afraid, I’ll be brave andI do it anyway, 'cause that's what it takes to win this game” Yoshi2.0, Do It...
3 months ago • 4 min read
