The sparks keep coming. Creating this Notion page to share my thoughts was one of them—just like the many little nudges I’ve felt lately to write, to share, and to organize the scattered pieces of this journey.
It’s hard to describe what resetting your life really feels like. It’s not some big, cinematic moment. It’s a slow unfolding. A quiet choosing. It’s trusting yourself, over and over again, even when you don’t have the perfect roadmap. It’s honoring the quiet desires placed in your heart and letting them guide you, even when you’re not entirely sure where they’re leading.
One of those choices, for me, has been deeply personal and practical: nursing my baby to sleep and bed-sharing. It means that my “awake time” is shaped around her rhythm—12 hours a day, give or take. It also means that once she’s down for the night, I get maybe an hour or two to myself in the evening.
For the first year, I used that time to read or catch up on sleep. But recently, something in me has been stirring. I want to grow. I want to build. I want to create.
Now, I’ve started using those quiet hours for myself in a different way—journaling and writing. Even if it’s just on my phone, clumsy and imperfect as that may be, it allows me to get the ideas and outlines out of my head and into the world. It’s not polished, but it’s progress.
For a long time, I hid behind the excuse of “I don’t have time.” And it was true—in some ways. I don’t always have time to sit at a desk or open a laptop. But I do have time to tap a few thoughts into my phone. I do have time to choose me in those quiet evening hours. Sometimes that means reading, because reading fills me up. But sometimes it means resisting the urge to escape and instead, leaning into creation—using those little sparks to shape the life I’ve been dreaming of.
Here’s the truth: You don’t need a perfect schedule, a dedicated workspace, or a grand plan to begin. You just need willingness. You need to catch the sparks when they come and choose, in small and powerful ways, to believe in your own unfolding.
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