PS. I like you is a free weekly(ish) newsletter for people who don’t know what they’re doing, and being absolutely okay with that :p
Hello! I am on holiday at the moment. And this means I am extremely uninterested in having anything useful to say.
That’s okay; it’s not my job (nor anyone else’s) to be useful to people all the time.
The problem, or tension, can occur when we tell ourselves we have to do something, and we are just generally not motivated to do that particular thing.
For example, I am actually quite motivated to write something — and maybe even share it with you and a hundred other strangers on the internet.
But I am not especially motivated to be useful.
Who wants to be useful when they’re on holiday?? That’s hardly the point!
I also did think about sharing a previous newsletter with you. But I looked back over newsletters I had written and decided I didn’t like them enough to share you with them now, as who I am today, without some major editing.
Basically, part of me is saying to myself, I should be A LOT more professional in future. (I should really plan things better. And maybe, in future, I will.)
But also, a bigger part of me loves saying/typing things out loud in the hope (and maybe knowledge…?) that someone out there is thinking similar thoughts — and would really like to be reminded today that they’re not a complete weirdo of a human being.
This is genuinely all I know about being useful. Listening; trying to understand what someone else might be thinking; and then saying the thing you feel might meet them where they’re at… without trying to fix it.
Everything else I can do is adding more fluff. That’s not to say the fluff isn’t welcome. It’s not to say I couldn’t be clearer. And it’s not to say I can’t improve in how I listen, or how I articulate my thoughts.
But the heart of what I do is not very complicated.
Whether it’s useful or not, is not up for me to decide.
PS. I like you.
I feel like it’s not everyone who will sit down and talk through life’s questions with you. Those people are special. Find them — and treasure them and the conversations you have together. Here’s 100 Questions to help get you started.
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PPS. I’m running a workshop on the 15th of September called Rooting into the Spirit of Your Business. It’s a workshop about exploring what it means to feel connected to your creative work — and also what to do when you’re feeling disconnected. Because it all happens, all the time, and there’s no problem with that. We can pick up the thread, again and again, in our own time. But it’s about trusting that — and that’s not always easy in world that is constantly prodding us to look outside ourselves for the answers.
You can find out more info about the workshop and book your tickets here.