Stop dreaming backwards

You're being too practical.

Ah, friends, hello.

Todays newsletter is about a framework I use to “dream”.

There’s the linear dreaming.

Then there’s the reaching forward in time and pulling it onto your own lap so to speak.

I’d love to explore this with you as I share a pending home move for Tully, Myself and our boys.

A move from one reality of life, into another.

And the process of closing that gap.

I have a list of topics in my phone notes to write about. It’s long. I have requests that you may have sent in (The 1-2 kids transition), and topic’s that feel hot on my heart to discuss and write about (Soulful Money). My personal process is usually to scroll down my list and feel whatever stands out to me in that moment. The topic that sends a surge of energy down my spine, or a tingle in the womb, is always the one I choose to write about.

However,

Sometimes none of them are ready to be written about. I trust that and never attempt to force a topic to reveal itself before it’s time.

Though as a writer who wants to publish weekly, it can be challenging when I’m not in the midst of a creative surge. This is where the discipline and structure come to play in order to support my craft. It’s also where normalising the ebs and flow of creativity are important. Especially as a mother.

I’ve done my best to learn about blueprints such as gene keys, human design, deeper astrology and numerology readings etc. Not to the point of needing to squish myself into these boxes, and describe myself to everyone through them, but instead be liberated by them. To use these frameworks as a way to understand myself and my creative process better - and therefore learn how I need to dance with myself in a unique way. There is never one size fits all, and I do personally prefer this tailored approach and really encourage it for others.

One thing I’ve learned when it comes to human design, is that I have a 2/4 profile. Which is the Hermit/ Opportunist. I recognised early on, a pattern within my creative process of going all in, going hard, being completely immersed by it… then needing to pull right back, and go into hermit mode. I wouldn’t write for weeks. I wouldn’t “offer” programs for… months or years. Then I’m straight back in with full energy.

I would judge this part of myself. Frustrated at my own inconsistency, fearful it would damage trust. I thought it would be something I could fix, though time and time again, year after year, my only consistency was my inconsistency.

I then learned how it could be a super power. How I could learn to trust my creative impulse as a generous energy where I could create incredible things. How my hermit energy needed that space to ground, recenter, and gather resources. They worked together. No one without the other. I also learned that tools such as scheduling posts, creating leveraged income, choosing to automate or outsource aspects of business, could help me stay in my genius zone, and create consistency even when I was internally MIA. Above it all, that it’s also simply ok to be human in the creative process… that’s the whole point.

Something else I know, is that I respond to life. Sure, it’s in my human design, but it’s also just in my heart. When I’m hidden away in a room 24/7 trying to create…It’s just not that good. I’m bored. It’s bored of me too. When I go and get INTO my life, listen carefully to conversations, attune to the subtle energies, and take a moment to truly experience life through my body… My perspective shifts, my ideas take form, and I rush home to write and create.

So today as I was scrolling through my “Topics to write about” list, and when nothing jumped at me, I took that as feedback to simply tune into what is alive in my life right now. Rather than directing a topic, what if I revealed to you what I’m moving through in my life right this second, while I’m in it.

So today’s letter is a inspired response to a close friend, and a discussion we had earlier this week.

Elaborated and made more sparkly, for the sake of this article.

“Kat, I want to dream big from the heart, and also… logistics? The practicalities of how I’m ACTUALLY going to make it happen? How can we dream within our limits?”

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