The Power of Purpose

Lesson Learned & Shared

This year I am taking on the #100dayproject by sharing one lesson a day from my Stop Writing Alone journey. I am looking specifically for the lessons I not only learned myself, but the ones I find myself repeating to writers and creatives in my community over and over again.

The Power of Purpose

What an incredibly gorgeous wake up call this lesson was for me. I'll never forget where I was when I heard it. I was in my kitchen, prepping food for my toddler son, listening to @cathyheller 's podcast #DontKeepYourDayJob . Honestly, I was half-listening to the whole thing, but then she said these words,
"The opposite of depression is not happiness. It is purpose."
Full Stop.
Did I hear that right?
I rewound it, replayed it, and openly sobbed.
I had been drawn to this podcast because I had been feeling lost and broken-hearted that #momlife was not enough. I felt a shell of myself. I felt that my son was never getting a chance to see the REAL ME. I knew I had more to give him, and more to give myself, but, looking at my life, I started to get frustrated with my own unhappiness.
I was in remission from my disease, feeling physically better, my sight had returned so I could read and write again, AND I had a little boy before me to spill all my love and joy into, WHY COULDN'T I GET OVER THIS HEAVINESS INSIDE ME?
Why couldn't I just be happy already?
Then I heard these words and it clicked: the teaching career I had lost to my disease years earlier gave me an ENORMOUS amount of Purpose (and, yes, that's with a capital P!).
From that point forward, I knew how to find the light at the end of my tunnel.
Find my Purpose again. Make that Purpose a priority in my healing.
This is how @stopwritingalone was born and I am personally grateful for it every day.
If you are struggling to find your inner light, don't hunt for happiness, identify and prioritize the time you spend living in your Purpose.

Do you already know what it is?

My #100DayProject for 2024

Introducing my #100dayproject for 2024:

To know me is to know I have a teacher soul. At the end of the day, my passion is learning and sharing that learning with anyone willing to listen. So, when it came time to think of a project that I could realistically take on for 100 days straight, it had to come back to that passion.

For the next 100 days, I will share one lesson learned each day that I find myself continually sharing with writers and creatives in my community. There are plenty of things that come up again and again (in fact, I'm kind of betting that there are at least 100 of them!) and it's about time I wrote them all down somewhere. Let's see how far we get with these mini lessons, let's see how many you remember me chanting before, and how many you needed to be reminded of!