Serena Yuan

Make a first aid kit for something! What would be in your "Creativity First Aid Kit" or your "Oh No, This Party Is Terrible First Aid Kit"? You can just write it down or actually make it. My "Help! I Want To Sketch!" first aid kit became a little travel kit I take with me all kinds of places. But it doesn't have to be physical! "Help! I'm Lonely!"... See more

The perpetual boredom and lack of direction and "not knowing what's out there" and dulling your natural bodily signals and needs. It's scary to realize something so simple could completely change your perspective and outcome of life.

I do something similar to this with reading, I enjoy non-fiction, but I have a rule that after reading a non-fiction book, to read a fiction book to 'cleanse the pallet' so to speak. And trust me, reading a fantasy book about opening a coffee shop (Legends and Lattes) helps after reading a book on the history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

"because comfort NEVER changed anyone"

"be more afraid of staying the same"

“Perfection doesn’t build you, effort does”

Think of your life like a garden :

• If you only water work, the rest withers.


• If you never pull out the weeds (aka boundaries), they take over.


• If you “hope it sorts itself out,” it won’t.