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tina + this weekend + trusting your imagination

tina + this weekend + trusting your imagination

whatever your idea is, please do it

Danyel Smith
Nov 24, 2023
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square one.

Do not second-guess yourself. Whatever your idea is, whatever is your plan for reinvention — please go on ahead and do it. Be it.

Use this long weekend to rest, if that’s what you need. Use this holiday weekend to daydream, write, practice, schedule-send emails, outline that thing, research that city you want to move to, finish that pitch deck, reach out to that collaborator you lost touch with, go for that walk (maybe push it to a jog), download that app and design that quick book cover or logo or new banner for your invoices. Your thoughts and ideas are worthy and important. Turn your journal sentences, or half-thoughts, or recipes, or moments of sadness or glee into art, or arty social posts. The artist/author

Austin Kleon
continues to inspire me along these lines, with his books and his newsletter.

from me, for no particular reason, in 2019

It’s a good creative weekend for me because I’m writing and refining and designing. In peace. For hours at a time. I can think, and connect dots, …

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