Stop Hoarding all the Should's

Creating a gentler world by giving yourself space to act on the big things.

One of my dreams is to make the world a gentler place. Not a different place, but one where we have the energy left to engage with the bad things like climate change, and systematic racism, and putting corporations back in some sort of container that serves the common good. A gentler place where we remember to check in on our elder neighbours in a snow storm and share the garden glut with strangers.

When I think about the work that it will take to make any progress on some of these issues, the commitment and grind it takes to stop the big wheels churning and point them a different way, I get stopped. Not because I’ve never worked that hard, because I have. And I know what it took out of me in a world that doesn’t support rest, or prioritize my health, and well being. Creating the bandwidth to get on with doing what we care about is one of the most critical challenges we face when we are trying to make change.

In A Little Book of Permission I show you one way to begin to make space so you can get started on the things you love and want to do. Decluttering your closet feels brilliant, but we have to do this work in our head too! We’ve been hoarding shoulds and have tos and it can get so heavy you can’t move. Set some down today.

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Let’s take a step today toward the world we want at least inside ourselves.