Happy Monday

Hello my friend!

Today was dedicated to car care and tidying up. I enjoy my new routine where Monday's are now a day each week where I focus more on my personal admin and errands. Then I can relax the rest of the week by focusing on creating art to share and sell to others. I feel more and more focused on creating an art business now. I have a vision of what I want to create this year and will be gentle with myself to just focus on the next year. That keeps things pretty simple and less daunting than climbing a huge mountain. Let's start with a little 2024-2025 mountain. My process is asking myself where do I see myself next summer. Once I check the box whether or not it's realistic, I start to see how each season will be dedicated to certain high-level work phases. And then I trust each month that I can take it as it comes.

In the past I have had a habit of over-planning and then being too paralysed to overcome setbacks. But I was causing the setbacks by over-planning. In a way I think I was planning as a way to procrastinate. I never fully trusted my plan or myself so I just kept tweaking the plan, and then rushing to get everything done last minute.

I'm going to give myself a pat on the back that I'm not like that anymore. I probably still have that tendency in me, but being aware of it helps me not act on it. In every moment of my day I keep nurturing my relationship with myself by acknowledging everything I feel, want, need and then making a conscious healthy choice. I don't need to give in to every thought and feeling I have. I can't stress enough how vital self-awareness has been on my personal healing journey.

Anyway, perhaps someone out there needed to hear that 🥰

Here are some pictures from today. I also filmed a little video blog from my day. I hope you like it and enjoy my current awkward self as I learn to be more comfortable speaking to the camera.

Lots of love

Annika ꨄ