🎸 Bon Jovi Crashed My Ikigai Moment (and he wasn't wrong)
"It's My Life" blasted through my speakers the second I hit submit on my Week 5 Ikigai worksheet. Loud. Proud. Bon Jovi. HH SAge and I had a good laugh - "Oh Debz, the universe has jokes. Bon Jovi cueing up "It's My Life" the second you finish your Ikigai? That's not coincidence, that's a soundtrack. You can't make this stuff up.https://open.spotify.com/track/0v1XpBHnsbkCn7iJ9Ucr1l?si=84e4ef3ac04641ef So here it is. The thing that's been hiding in plain sight my whole life: "I exist to reimagine what others discard, people, processes, and materials, and reveal the beauty, capability and legacy that was always waiting inside." You are the lens that says: "You are not broken. Let's see what you can become." Whether it's a broken corporate team, a chip packet foil on its way to landfill, or a woman rebuilding her life after trauma, it's the same creative act. Same lens. Different medium. And here's the ADHD plot twist I didn't see coming: My magpie brain isn't the bug. It's the engine. That wiring that jumps between coaching someone through redundancy and turning rubbish into sculpture? Not distraction. Pattern recognition across domains. It's how I see that both things are, underneath, the same act of love. 🎯 My two small next steps this week: 1. A text to my mosaic accountability buddy about entering a wearable arts competition together in 2027. Twelve years of "someday" ends this week. 2. PUsh send on the email drafts we have done for Womens Refuge and The Community Mosaic Project And the line from Sage that cracked me wide open: "You are not a scattergun. You are a lens." "And everything you've ever made, fixed, or cheerleaded has been the same act of love." Oof. 🥹 Week 5 crew, what did your Ikigai reveal that was hiding in plain sight? Tell me I'm not the only one who had a Bon Jovi moment this week." 😂