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Building a life you love takes a boatload of courage. But you don’t have to do it alone.
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Join your host, writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser Meg Kissack every weekday as helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter.
Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
The Daily Pep! is a sister podcast of The Couragemakers Podcast.
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT.
For more information, show-notes and to join a community of like-minded Couragemakers, visit: therebelrousers.com/dailypep
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. You're listening to the Daily Pep, which is the only daily podcast for creative and multi passionate women who want to get out of their own way and put epic shit into the world that only they can do. So one of the things I love thinking about, talking about, geeking out about the most is everything when it comes to creative ideas. All about how we have our ideas, how we record our ideas, and just that feeling in the moment when you come up with a good idea and you just run away with it. But today I just want to go over a specific part of the process and that's these kind of abandoned ideas. We've all got the kind of notebooks which we bought for a particular project where we only filled in a couple of pages and then we never went back to them because maybe we lost the enthusiasm or somebody said something and our interest in the idea, or our self confidence was knocked, or maybe just life got in the way. Now I think it is just so easy to see those notebooks on our shelves and feel guilt or feel failure or feel like, oh, yeah, that's just more evidence that I don't always finish my projects. But today I just want to offer up a different lens of how you see those notebooks.
It's so easy to disregard them, it's so easy for them just to become another talisman of things that we didn't do. But what if they're actually incredibly important? What if the point is the idea in the first place? Not the progress you made with it, not, not how far you were able to take it, but the real crux of the idea itself. Because sometimes when we go back through projects, whether we did them, whether we thought about them, whether they were a vague idea, when we start to go through them, we can look back and really strong patterns can start to emerge. We can really start to find out what's important to us. We can see how those projects are coming to life in different forms to our current ideas and. And it can also remind us of things that are really important to us that sometimes we just forget. And if, as you're listening to this, a certain idea is coming up, or there's this idea that just won't leave you alone, but you've been plagued by the fact that you haven't worked on it, or you just feel like the ship has sailed because it's been a while, maybe it's time to go back to that with fresh eyes and just instead of diving straight into it, see what it is about the project that really caught you in the first place. See what the elements are that get you really excited and see how you can bring some of that to your life.
Whether that's picking the project back up and just giving yourself all the compassion and all the forgiveness and letting go of some of that guilt and the things that feel quite shitty, or whether that's picking the project back up and giving it another go or just starting where you left off. Either way, I think our half finished ideas and those notebooks that almost sit there taunting us. I think they have so much to teach us and there can just be so much that we can learn from them rather than just being another tool that we use to beat ourselves up with. So today, get curious, get courageous, and see what they've got in store for you. I I think you might be pleasantly surprised and maybe you'll find some breadcrumbs that you either forgot existed or maybe it'll give you a completely new perspective on something you've been working on lately that's completely unrelated and maybe you never would have got there had you not just looked back at those old ideas. So here's to embracing all of our many beautiful notebooks. Here's to celebrating our ideas rather than using them as another stick to beat ourselves with. And here's to knowing that not all ideas have to be fully baked or finished, and we're diving more into that tomorrow.
So have a fabulous Thursday if you're enjoying the daily pep and would love more of where that came from in the form of weekly emails where I share all the most vulnerable bits and the personal bits that I don't share anywhere else when it comes to how I'm building my own creative, wholehearted life that I love. Then make sure that you're signed up to my Sunday emails. You can get in on them at thathummingbirdlife.com and click on Sunday Emails and I look forward to seeing you there. Until next time, have a great day and remember that everything changes when you believe you matter.