reminders for myself

Success isn’t just achievement. It’s change. It’s loss. It’s a quiet heartbreak of outgrowing the parts of your life that mean so much to you. To step into a bigger (more grand) version of yourself, you must first bury the smaller one, and with that burial comes grief. (Yes, I’m thinking all of this while my daughter splashes around in the pool.)

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I firmly believe that we we seek is seeking us and the fastest way to attract what’s meant for us all is to express yourself so honestly that everything misaligned falls away on its own. The more clearly someone speaks clearly from their centre, the more easily the right people, places, and possibilities can recognise their signal.

“She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody’s private fantasies. Taxi could be anything you wanted her to be - a little girl, a woman, intelligent, dumb, rich, poor, anything. She was a wonderful, beautiful blank. The mystique to end all mystiques.”

Perhaps we are all seeking attention without embarrassment, connection without vulnerability.

To speak clearly is to reveal a shape, not a final form, but a felt one. This isn’t about locking into a fixed identity forever, but offering an image sharp enough that others can respond to it.

Mirror it, play with it, meet it. Let it evolve. Like a photograph in the darkroom, gradually revealing deeper colour, clearer edges, something someone can... See more