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Time to pause and get your head straight
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Reading time: 1.27 345 words Hey Reader, I’ve been asking people why they joined January Uncaged and wanted to share another answer that I thought might resonate with you. J joined because they’re facing a juggling challenge at the moment — family, studies, and leadership — without losing their wellbeing or giving up all the space to think and write. “Everything feels non-stop, so having time to pause and get my head straight is the thing I’m really struggling with. How do you create intentional spaces rather than reacting and working in a space of urgency?” This question J finishes with is one that I’ve been pondering for a while now. For a long time, I’ve been working in urgency. I think most of us have. And that’s been reflected in what I’ve created and shared. But I realised that is not who I want to be and it’s not what I want to push, either. I had three full weeks off over the festive period and called it my Winterval, but I didn’t do nothing. I’m not good at doing nothing. What I did was exactly what I wanted to do: slept more, went surfing, went hiking, saw friends, did some writing that I wanted to do, played games, read a lot of books. I gave myself space. I’m doing it again next Christmas too but I’m not waiting until then to create space for myself, I’m building more of it into my days, weeks, and months. And I am thinking about how to create a space for people who want to create without reacting and without that sense of urgency and panic. Because although sometimes amazing work can come out of panic, I think mostly it blinkers us and tunnel visions us. So January Uncaged is a foray into space and play and non-urgent creativity and I think it’ll be a game-changer for those of us doing it. The doors close at 5pm and this won’t be available in this format again for another year. I’d love for you to join us — right here!
TTFN, Vicky 🫡 p.s. Know someone who might enjoy this email? Please forward it to them and get them to sign up here.
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