I’m working very hard on two things right now that aren’t really things that one is supposed to work hard on:
Spending more time at home, being domestic, learning a thing or two from my kitten Lua.
Only investing myself and my energy into what’s truly important
Taking off the summer from my Matecki Studios work to recharge was part of both of these things and truly - I couldn’t recommend it more.
For spending more time at home: There’s a softness in a space that you create for yourself and simply existing, drinking tea. A dear friend and I call it “steamy vapors” time — wrapped up in a blanket, maybe chatting with someone dear, maybe looking out the window.
This is something that I’ve admittedly never been good at. I’ve always been running around, traveling around, producing. My first podcast was called Notes on Doing — DOING.
Now I’m working on — learning about — just being.
For investments — my MBA that I’m finishing up right now has taught me so much about this.
You invest in what you believe is worthy of your investment and will give the most returns and grow you, grow your “business.”
Shouldn’t our focus, presence, time, energy work the same way?
In my mid-thirties I’m finding that I have the same amount of energy that I’ve always had, but that it asks to be allocated in different ways.
In mapping out the next few years of my life these days — notebook in hand, blanket wrapped around me, Lua purring at my feet — I’ve thought a lot about how I’m investing my time and where I show up.
If it isn’t a “hell yes” or “this has good vibes” or “I believe in this person/place/thing” or “this gives back,” I don’t do it anymore.
It’s looking forward and mapping out what the next chapter looks like, with those “awesome only” parameters, while protecting that sweet time at home, respecting myself by investing myself into what matters —
Investing myself into that which grows.
What do you think about this? What are your strategies? Let’s chat about it here in the Discord?
Love,
Jenna