ON procrastination (and the intention behind REFRAME)
ON procrastination (and the intention behind REFRAME)
what’s included in this email subscription and why
I meant to write this sooner. (In fact, I started this email months ago.)
So why am I only sending it now, much later than intended?
It might be easy to call this PROCRASTINATION. (But I think it’s much more than that.)
I procrastinate because this work is meaningful to me… and I want to get it right.
I procrastinate because I’m pressed for time… and caretaking for my family is my priority.
I procrastinate because I’m pressed for resources… and earning an income is required.
And yet, no matter how long (and how often) I “put off” the things most important to me, they show up again and again.
Especially lately, I’ve been getting “reminders” from the universe (or the gods), telling me to WRITE. WRITE. WRITE.
“If you want to know what’s next,
you need to write.
If you want to become yourself,
you need to write.”
REFRAME is my answer to that.
This series of emails will become an archive of my inquiries and contemplations.
Because it’s not that I don’t have things to say… it’s that I haven’t said them lately.
Within these emails, I will “reframe” time and energy to embrace creative work and motherhood.
I will write in snippets of time.
I will reserve childcare to write.
I will nourish my body first.
I will write within and about my experience.
My hope is that my writing might become my career, that I might earn a living wage through my writing this way (and not only copywriting).
Because I have Big Dreams for the future:
I want to write books (plural!), I want to return to graduate school to study with leaders in my field, I want to become a writer.
This email series is my next step forward.
ON reframe:
What’s this mean for you? What will I be writing about (and why)?
This series of emails will be about “reframing” whole-self and whole-world wellness as priority at the intersection of motherhood and creative work.
This will include cultural critique and personal essays to reframe topics like -
MOTHERHOOD, working motherhood, balancing motherhood with creative work, motherhood and home education
CREATIVE WORK, working as a soul-based copywriter, experience in online business, ethical and authentic marketing for solopreneurs and small business owners
SELF-LED EDUCATION, experience with and reflections on unschooling / deschooling myself and my family (including resources)
MIND-BODY-SOUL WELLNESS, (re)prioritizing wellness, nourishment, mindful movement, radical rest, and pleasure for myself and for the collective
My intention is that these emails will become my personal and professional experiment in reframing the daily experience of being human (and mother and creative).
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xx, alycia buenger