Imo, you're making it harder for yourself if you're not thinking like this. If we want to talk cyclical living, it helps to talk about having a legacy mindset.
This post is so brilliant. I love the sense of there being so much time. I realised this year how much scarcity I feel around me about time and how that is such a creative block for me. I'm quite good at big vision and goals for a year but I find estimating how long things take and chunking it down into meaningful next steps really hard!
I found these journalling prompts super usefull, thanks Claire. Just dreamed through them in a rare morning to myself :) Makes me clearer on what needs to come first (focus on my own healing) and that, yes, I HAVE SO MUCH TIME, for all the other big changes I want to make..X
Fabulous! So pleased they were helpful for you, May. Celebrating you landing on the realisation of healing first. So often the way, but easy to bypass!
this is honeybalm for my scattered end of year nerves in cyclical autmn. LOL. I was just today realising, that I put too much pressure on myself, when I want to juggle 5 different projects and life areas equally and bring output in high quality in all of them. I mean, I'm still a human being, right? But ask for way to much from myself. So thank you Claire for coming out here just today and sharing your perspective and thoughts. They bring so much ease and perspective to me already. legacy mindset is gonna be a big part of my next weeks. I love already to think and ideate about it.
I think I somehow misunderstood Oliver Burkeman's concept of the 4000 weeks, or lets say: misused it to put pressure on myself. The idea of 4000 weeks helps me a lot to know what is really important to me, but also feed the idea of needing to do EVERYTHING right NOW! :) So reading your big YOU HAVE SO MUCH TIME is quite daring for me. :) but also healing. Any thoughts on bringing the idea of "having so much time" and "life is short" together?
So far, after reading your pice, I think my vibe for 2025 is actually planning for rest and breaks and daring to do wayyyyy lesss than feels okay for me :) because deep down I know it's good for me but it's still again and again so daring in this linear capitalist world.
Okay, enough for now. I feel like my comment is turning into an essay.
Thank you for being you and sharing your precious knowledge and thoughts with us.
Thank you for this thoughtful and honest comment Franzi! Always love hearing your takes. You asked about reconciling “life is short” with “I have so much time” and from a productivity / creative perspective, I think focusing on quality of work is key here. Doing less isn’t just about doing less, but about doing fewer things much better and at a higher quality than we could realise if we pursued every idea we have in the same timeframe. I am sure your 5 different projects are all incredible but wouldn’t it feel great to deeply pursue and even obsess over one or two of them, with time for rest and breaks, than feel scattered and unfulfilled because managing that many projects is actually really tough? Well, for me — I know what I would prefer, and I think the perspective of life being short reminds us that we do have limited time, and we do need to be highly discerning with what we take on. There are trade offs for every creative decision; if we say yes to something new, that time has to come from SOMEWHERE. It’s then a question of values, priorities, and being okay with not seeing every idea come to life. Tough! But freeing!
This post is so brilliant. I love the sense of there being so much time. I realised this year how much scarcity I feel around me about time and how that is such a creative block for me. I'm quite good at big vision and goals for a year but I find estimating how long things take and chunking it down into meaningful next steps really hard!
Thankyou for these prompts my babe. So powerful for me to see my responses written down! Love you and your offerings to the world xx
I found these journalling prompts super usefull, thanks Claire. Just dreamed through them in a rare morning to myself :) Makes me clearer on what needs to come first (focus on my own healing) and that, yes, I HAVE SO MUCH TIME, for all the other big changes I want to make..X
Fabulous! So pleased they were helpful for you, May. Celebrating you landing on the realisation of healing first. So often the way, but easy to bypass!
this is honeybalm for my scattered end of year nerves in cyclical autmn. LOL. I was just today realising, that I put too much pressure on myself, when I want to juggle 5 different projects and life areas equally and bring output in high quality in all of them. I mean, I'm still a human being, right? But ask for way to much from myself. So thank you Claire for coming out here just today and sharing your perspective and thoughts. They bring so much ease and perspective to me already. legacy mindset is gonna be a big part of my next weeks. I love already to think and ideate about it.
I think I somehow misunderstood Oliver Burkeman's concept of the 4000 weeks, or lets say: misused it to put pressure on myself. The idea of 4000 weeks helps me a lot to know what is really important to me, but also feed the idea of needing to do EVERYTHING right NOW! :) So reading your big YOU HAVE SO MUCH TIME is quite daring for me. :) but also healing. Any thoughts on bringing the idea of "having so much time" and "life is short" together?
So far, after reading your pice, I think my vibe for 2025 is actually planning for rest and breaks and daring to do wayyyyy lesss than feels okay for me :) because deep down I know it's good for me but it's still again and again so daring in this linear capitalist world.
Okay, enough for now. I feel like my comment is turning into an essay.
Thank you for being you and sharing your precious knowledge and thoughts with us.
❤️
Thank you for this thoughtful and honest comment Franzi! Always love hearing your takes. You asked about reconciling “life is short” with “I have so much time” and from a productivity / creative perspective, I think focusing on quality of work is key here. Doing less isn’t just about doing less, but about doing fewer things much better and at a higher quality than we could realise if we pursued every idea we have in the same timeframe. I am sure your 5 different projects are all incredible but wouldn’t it feel great to deeply pursue and even obsess over one or two of them, with time for rest and breaks, than feel scattered and unfulfilled because managing that many projects is actually really tough? Well, for me — I know what I would prefer, and I think the perspective of life being short reminds us that we do have limited time, and we do need to be highly discerning with what we take on. There are trade offs for every creative decision; if we say yes to something new, that time has to come from SOMEWHERE. It’s then a question of values, priorities, and being okay with not seeing every idea come to life. Tough! But freeing!
Just absorbing all of this now and I love the phrase, "legacy mindset." All of this really taps into my Projector brain and my need for spaciousness.