I recently started a series of daily self care practices. Not necessarily new year's resolutions, but things I wanted to literally practice daily. My morning routine now consists of Morning Pages — an exercise from Julia Cameron's The Artists Way, three handwritten pages of journaling without any particular prompt — and a three card tarot … Continue reading You Can’t Give Your Whole Business Away for Free
I recently had a Facebook memory pop up, an image from a vacation in January 2016. In the photo, my puffy, red eyes betrayed that I'd been up all night crying, despite a chipper caption about my breakfast shake and a smiling emoji. January 13, 2016 The night before, my partner had painstakingly pulled a … Continue reading To Those Who Aren’t Ready to Leave
New Years Resolutions are kinda fake. Only about 9% of people who set resolutions feel successful in keeping them by the end of the year. Because resolutions typically aren't well thought out, and they may not even make sense in line with a longer term vision for your life. What makes resolutions fail? Setting TOO … Continue reading Break Up with New Years Resolutions
Tonight is the last full moon of 2021, one of my favorite events of the year because I get really deep into my journaling and reflecting and healing, I lay it all out in a notebook — what I am leaving behind in the year before, what I am creating for myself in the coming … Continue reading moon to moon: 2021 in review
We think of our career and self-care as a binary between work and life. We talk about work-life balance like that’s all there is. Work stuff, and life stuff — an even split. But it’s not 50/50. This is not a two-mode thing where sometimes you live and sometimes you work. Balance means that the … Continue reading Is work-life balance 50/50?
Money mindset is one of the biggest things holding people back from financial confidence. Whether you're a business owner, stay at home parent, Average Joe, or anywhere in between, money is important. We need it to live — to pay for housing, medicine, food, and other necessities and desires. Yes, desires. You deserve nice things, … Continue reading 7 Money Mindset Shifts
Human beings are creative. We just are. Left to our own devices, we make up stories, draw pictures, write poems, use color in different ways, and display beautiful things in our homes. We have been making art and telling stories for eons. You are creative. I am creative. We are creative. But over time, creativity … Continue reading How to Level Up Your Creativity
We procrastinate productively, because saying yes to doing the dishes or another load of laundry is ALWAYS going to be something we can argue is more important than our creative goals, rest, or play. So it's time to be more decisive about what we say yes and no to.
You can’t expect someone else to do the work that’s in your own mind. Of course, you can get help from a therapist or a friend or a coach to help you process, but doing the work is on you. All the therapy in the world won't help you if you don't actually dig in and get uncomfortable and vulnerable to do the processing. The flip side is that other people’s emotional processing is THEIR job. You can’t do it for them.
I love a good motivational quote. Quotes can be a source of inspiration when you're feeling unsure, a prompt for journaling and investigation into your intuition, or a powerful mantra you can rely on when you feel doubts about your next steps. I love to turn my favorite quotes into phone wallpapers so that every … Continue reading 8 Quotes to Inspire Confidence and Growth
Caitlin Liz Fisher 