This comes form the Run Wild Creative archive, an email newsletter from way back when.
Ah, the uncertainty of it all.
Hello my darling,
How are you today? I'm sitting at a cafe across the street of my house. The coffee is strong. Inside my house, my friend Nic is getting ready for a year long adventure. A week ago, my sister was doing the same thing. Last night, a friend was lying in a hospital bed with a gleam in her eye while she spoke about volunteering in Tanzania.
Two weeks ago I was having a chamomile tea with my sister in bed, and now, as I type, she's walking the streets of Brazil looking for a carnival outfit. It seems like you just commit to one decision, one dare, one whisper in the back of your brain and then you're surprising yourself again and again.
I love it.
What travel plans have you got up your sleeve this year? Or the next? Or the next?
I thought of you when I read this point in Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields. The book is all about how to fortify yourself against uncertainty and fear. Once again, like all books and studies around creativity, it talks about creating a daily habit, exposing your ideas to smart people that inspire you and exercising your body as much as your mind.
"At some point, you need to stop looking for solutions outside yourself and turn your attention inward. Cultivating a daily personal practice helps steel you against the fear and anxiety that comes from embracing uncertainty, risk and exposure to judgement. It also significantly ramps up your cognitive function, ability to come up with ideas and general state of mind, and helps foster a sense of equanimity in the face of what is at times a raging creation storm."
Sending you lots of caffeine-fuelled love across the air in byte-sized pieces,
Tash