Okay honest question for the group. How many of you have a list of things you want to pursue that's... longer than is probably sensible? 😅 I sat down this week to work on my Ikigai and realised I have: - A career I'm building skills in - A consulting direction I want to move toward - A creative art practice I lose time in - A community project I've just started planning - A charity initiative I want to expand - A facilitation aspiration that makes my gut light up - A whole location-independent lifestyle I'm designing - Oh and about four properties, a renovation, learning Spanish, and a saxophone I've owned for 30 years that I still can't play And I sat there going... am I a visionary, or am I just a magpie collecting shiny things? 🐦‍⬛✨ Because here's my tension. My brain genuinely lights up for ALL of these. They're not random. They actually connect and feed each other. But I also know that if I try to chase all of them at once, I'll end up with seventeen half-finished things and a wine at 4pm wondering why nothing moved. Sound familiar to anyone? Just me? 😬 Something that's helping me (and I'm saying "helping," not "solved," because let's be real, it's a work in progress): Sage asked me a question that stopped me in my tracks. She asked me to look at each pursuit and figure out: is this a Chapter 1 thing (right now, ages 60-65), or is it a Chapter 2 or 3 thing that my dopamine-hungry brain is pulling forward because it's more exciting than the boring foundation work? Ouch. But fair. 😂 Turns out some of my shiniest ideas are genuinely Chapter 2 or 3 material. They're not wrong. They're just not NOW. And giving them a home on a "someday" list (Jim talked about this in the Week 5 call) means they're not lost. They're parked. Out of my head. Safe. But not competing for the same energy as the two or three things that actually need me THIS quarter. Still working on it. Still catch myself wanting to plan the saxophone comeback tour when I haven't done my council paperwork. But at least now I can see the pattern and go: "Hello, magpie brain. That's shiny. Is it Chapter 1?"

Hey! Ok. So. I had started a whole journey a few years ago to do voice over. Spent a lot of time and money. Felt crushed by my family treating it like a JOKE. It was a struggle because, well you get it! I was studying with Edge Studio in NYC, remotely, and I bought a demo package. So Hurricane Helene hit the very day I was to record my demo in Asheville (directed from NYC.) The hurricane was huge. Knocked me way off kilter. I spent 2025 busy doing plays and walking dogs but couldn’t get my head back into VO or my Etsy shop. Shame, sadness, feeling a fraud and a confused loser. But… Sage just helped me help myself and I have sent the email. You know the one. The one I was not sending, and might have told people I did send but I didn’t😖. I did! ‘Tis done. Alia jacta est. C’est parti! That is one of my rocks.