My latest struggle is that it is the New Year and I am a goal-setting kinda gal. Which you may think goes hand in hand. Normally it does. (I may have a collection of spreadsheets with goals from past years. Yes, you can be an artist and love spreadsheets. Totally a thing, I promise.) This year is different. (The world is for sure, but I am referring to my little internal world.) I have that feeling one gets right before swinging for something big.
But what am I swinging at? I recently reviewed the application for a fellowship. I circled all the things I am not in the application. All things that I want to be as an artist if I was one of the cool kids. I am pushing myself to dream an impossible dream. The Savvy Painter podcast recently had a great conversation about that. Here’s a link if you want to listen. 
It is hard to move towards a destination if you don’t know what it is. However, deep in my bones is the feeling that I can only develop this one as I go. Earlier today, words jumped off the page at me. They are “be mindful of your path.”
Mindfulness. Perhaps I don’t need all the answers to begin my plan. Perhaps I need circles on a page of things I recognize that I want to be and am not yet, the permission to dream up impossible goals, and the path of changing my mindset of what is possible.
If you enjoy this visual reminder, please feel free to download it or share it for your own reminder to have an intentional life.