The Power of Acceptance
3 Navigational Insights
Honest Coordinates: You cannot successfully navigate to a new destination if you are lying to yourself about your starting point. Change requires an honest acceptance of where you currently are—even if it's uncomfortable. The same is true for your destination.
The Courage to Coast or Change: Acceptance is a crossroads. It means looking at your creative life and consciously deciding whether you are ready to put in the work to change, or if you need to accept staying on the path you are currently on.
Letting Go Creates Space: You cannot welcome new, aligned opportunities into your life if your hands are tightly gripping commitments and collaborators that no longer serve you.
1 Coordinate
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it." — Carl Jung, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst
1 Aligned Action
The Release Valve: Look at your calendar for the upcoming week. Identify one task, commitment, or expectation you are carrying that drains your energy. Make the conscious choice to accept it as it is, improve it, or take one step to let it go.
P.S. This is a friendly reminder that my recent article is now live on VoyageDenver! Thanks to their team for the interview and for sharing my story and work at Ärtful.
Keep being ärtful!
Gabe Ratliff
Artist Navigator
Creator of the Ärtful Life Planner
