I woke up this morning with the usual mental stuff and something new: mindfulness about my emotional state and excitement about my entrepreneurship for the day. Yes, I purposely shoved the mental aspect of waking up into a bland five-letter word (stuff). Let's talk about the itchy need to journal and how it intersects with entrepreneurship.
I'm amazed at how much journaling has helped me. My therapist gave me homework last week related to one of the things I purposely shoved into a bland five-letter word. To complete it, I read my 2023 journal. Yes, I've managed to journal for an entire year and eleven months now. Over the years I've tried to journal simply because people tell me it's helpful. I didn't 'get' it. I still have no idea what clicked for me, other than permitting myself to write as an authentic me in a blank notebook. No structure, no expectations, and no input from "You Should Do It This Way". I do use a structured journal for one aspect of my mental health journey, I'll share that in another post someday. But my stash of journals are simply notebooks that I find in random stores. The cover art speaks to me, so I buy it and know it's ready for me to use when I run out of pages.
The upshot of journaling with no limitations is that I've given myself a way to compare Today Me to Younger Me. Some of Younger Me is cringe worthy, albeit less so than Much Younger Me. But what I see now is a human who despite having a ton of crap to work through, has persevered and learned. I still don't know enough to jump in and be a perfect success, so on to my next point for today:
Entrepreneurship. I've already failed at that twice in my life. Now that I'm mentally and emotionally stronger than 2022 Me, I'm ready to Richard Branson this. His quote "There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over". So if you see me falling over on here or out in the freelancer world, know that the bad ass warrior princess Hope is powering me and I'll be back up and running again soon.
Thanks for letting me journal on here so that I can look forward to an exciting future in entrepreneurship.
The author generated one of the images in part with GPT-3, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft imagery, the author reviewed, edited, and revised the image to their own liking and takes ultimate responsibility for the content of this publication.
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