Monday – leadership is overrated
Society is organised for the thriving of leaders. But most people aren’t leaders. In our leadership-oriented culture, personal growth is interpreted through the lens of leadership. But there are huge swathes of life that don’t involve leading. Often people who are good at what they do have to get outside mainstream structures and stop looking through leadership lenses in order to save themselves from being ‘promoted’ out of doing what they love.
This one resonated with a lot of you. Cali wrote, ‘I hated being a manager. I much [prefer] doing’.
Tuesday – who’s in charge of your free time?
Most of my time isn’t free. Too often my free time hasn’t been free either because I’ve given control of it to various forms of social media. I’ve been continuously taking back control of my free time for several years now.
How is it for you? Who or what is in charge of your free time? If it’s not you, what are you going to do about it?
Wednesday – creativity comes (nearly) last
If you have a family and/or a job, you probably don’t get to wake up, do a perfect morning routine and then devote the peak part of your day to the creative project of your choice. Fortunately, creativity doesn’t need to come first. It just needs to come before zoning out in front of a screen and it needs to happen consistently.
Thursday – most of life is the montage
Here’s the hard bit: you have to live it in real time, not montage time. You have to do all work, not just little snippets. You have to build relationships over months and years. You have to experience the slowness of seasons. You have to wash the dishes. Learn to love living in the montage or you will miss out on most of your life.
I’m still looking for a phrase you would hear on an infomercial. The clue:
My arse keeps getting heavier and heavier.
Answers in the comments, please.
I love the piano groove in Wolf Alice’s new song.
That’s the end of Book of TREE’s second quarter. Thanks for being here! I’m taking a week off to get the third quarter organised. I’ll see you back here Monday 16 June.
Happy weekend!
Jeff
But wait, there's more!
(grooooaaaan)
Butt weight (there’s more!)