Letterboons

If you need a break take it. If you need to spend your day curled up in bed let it. If you need to stay with yourself and say “no” to meetings, do it. Allow yourself to do whatever you need to do today and don’t feel guilty about it. 🧚🏼‍♀️ So often we are too hard on ourselves feeling like we should always hustle, and do do do, cross all the things on our never ending to-do lists and keep pushing. And when we take a break we almost feel guilty about it, because that little voice back in our head is whispering „Why are you taking a break? You should be doing something! Doing nothing and staring to a ceiling will take you nowhere.“. Even if that might be exactly what you need to be doing at that specific moment. 🌱 So today, don’t be so hard on yourself, take a little moment for yourself, even if it’s just 10 minutes. Let yourself feel whatever you need to feel today. Sometimes they are days where we just need to slow down and be. So just be. 🌿

Once again I found myself on a crossroad of where do I go next after this one period in my life ends. Worrying about what lies ahead and how I’ll manage everything. 🚏 Normally I would try to plan everything to the tiniest detail just to feel a bit more in control. Which would only lead to a bigger anxiety from the unknown and feeling shit because of not following my precise plan anyway. But not today. Today I just said: „You know what, whatever comes will come and I am strong, I will figure it out at the time!“ There is no point in wasting my energy on worrying about the unknown and trying to plan or prepare myself for something what might not even come. No need to be thinking about it and letting myself be swallowed up by it, because the truth is - I can’t figure it out now anyway. The only thing I can influence is the ‘here and now‘ and going with the flow works for me much better anyway. You never know what tomorrow can bring, a new job, dream collaboration, life partner, you can’t plan that. And then your whole life changes. Again. It’s a constant react and redirect kinda thing. ⛵️ Just keep on doing what brings joy, little steps everyday to the vision you have and the rest will follow. 🌻 You’ll figure it out on the way as it goes, one damn step after another. One by one. ☀️

The beginnings are sometimes the hardest. To overcome the initial fear that might be coming from fulfilling yours or others’ expectations, the fear that the outcome might not be as perfect as you wish it to be, or just overcoming the fear of stepping into the unknown and being anxious about what you might find there. All that requires a lot of strength. But, baby, you got all of it, I know you got this, so just take a deep breath and go for it! 💥💪🏼