As someone who hustled hard for years and years and, let’s be honest, for TOO many years — I am officially declaring that I am OVER the word “hustle.”
Hustle culture can be a dangerous, slippery slope that too many creatives, young professionals, and entrepreneurs — and, let’s be honest, really ANYONE can — become a sufferer of.
Myself included.
This “hustle culture” is devoted to work, work, work, and more work.
I want more. I want to LIVE, to enjoy, to experience, to feel the highs and lows, and find a balance within it all.
It really comes down to a couple questions for me that I’ve pondered over the passing years, asking myself these questions as I sought to step back from hustling so hard.
After many pauses, deep breaths and embracing stillness… it’s become about alignment for me. Aligning myself to my hopes and dreams, yes, and also aligning myself to my everyday, too. Flowing seamlessly in and out of the magnificent and the mundane. Seeing both as a way of life that I am personally manifesting for myself.
It all begins with clarity. Without clarity, there is questioning and confusion, resulting in the universe not knowing what to present to you.
Instead of confusion, I seek clarity.
Clarity in knowing what I want my life to look like.
Clarity in knowing where I’m headed and what I desire.
Clarity in fulfilling the ideas in my head, the desires of my heart.
Because, at the end of the day, I want clarity. I want alignment. I want my life to FLOW.
And, this is what I wish for you, too.
There’s no need to dread Monday on Sunday evenings.
There is space to take captive every single day and see beauty in each one, because each day (including a dreaded Monday!) is a gift.
There’s no need to grind 9-to-5 every day, hustling harder and harder until you are unhappy and burn out.
There is opportunity for a better way! There is more to you — you are capable of so much better, of so much more.
There’s no need to wish your life away waiting for Fridays when you can finally punch the clock for the weekend.
There is a place for you, instead, to align with your purpose, your true calling and not feel like you’re only living for the weekend.
So yes, I am officially over HUSTLE, and instead, I am aligning and seeking clarity and flowing. Flowing deeply and beautifully, in and out of the treasures — big and small — that this life has to offer.
And I invite you to do the same! ✨