Renee De Four
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Renee De Four
his skin and teeth suggested an indifference to hygiene.
The Simple Life: How to Find Your "ENOUGH"
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🌀 Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
Here is the answer to the question I asked in the first post. Agnes Martin discovered that painting was all she needed to be fulfilled in this life. I wonder at what age in life did she discover this? Was it an innate knowing or did she struggle?
I envy people like this who know what their “thing” is. I’m 30 years old and it frustrates me deeply that I don’t have a strong affiliation with one thing. Whether that’s writing, or reading, painting or playing an instrument. I’m starting to wonder if I need to try new things?
What I do enjoy - building workflows with digital tools, solving problems by creating systems does not feel like an artistic thing!
I can build and perfect a Notion or Tana workflow for hours until a solution is found but something feels like it’s missing. Maybe it’s because it’s not tangible like painting?
I don’t know but I think I need to pick up pottery - maybe that will be my thing.
Update 1/4/25 9:15 pm - This quote also reminds me of Hirayama from Perfect Days. He too discovered something far more precious than material accumulation.
The best marketing comes from you simply making your art and sharing it. In ways that light you up and provide value to other people. There’s no need for sleazy tactics. Sharing our art, sharing our values and philosophy and stories, can be PART of our art.
I'm returning to Substack
So let’s generalize this and say that retirement without doing what excites you is not a good retirement. What we actually need to understand here is the different perceptions of retirement: To some retirement means sitting in Florida and staring at a wall, to others it’s hang gliding in Tahiti, and to some it simply means not having to work.
The template is a simple Notion doc that you can duplicate and customize. I estimate that it will take you between 10 and 20 minutes to complete: https://erwanderlyn.notion.site/Go-to-market-strategy-template-922cd48b7d8e4ff8bbd37711d9fea71d
Erwan Derlyn • A jargon-free go-to-market strategy template
Agnes Bernice Martin was born on March 22, 1912.
Excerpt From Agnes Martin, Nancy Princenthal