Elin, I know I'm commenting a lot lately so I'm sorry, but just wanted to say that this newsletter is helping me immensely right now. When I read it, I feel like I'm on the right path with all my creative endeavors right now in 2025, which is the first time in a long time I've felt so aligned with what I'm posting online. You're speaking my language. So thank you!
Dont apologise!! I’m delighted more than anything and so glad my writing is resonating with you at this important moment 🙏🏼
Don’t forget that your job when following your dream is to have fun. When it’s not fun anymore it means we did something wrong along the way and the dream disappeared. Cheering you on the sideline as you post your memoir!
You perfectly encapsulated everything I’ve been feeling as we left 2024. I was in New Orleans for Thanksgiving, and it was during that time that this exact thought process clicked for me. I was being too strict with myself. I wasn’t allowing myself to create just to create. Over the last month, I’ve just lived from my soul and have already seen better results. We don’t need gurus, we just need a small cohort to help us keep going
That’s for sure! There’s so much power in listening to our guts and having support from an authentic community 🙏🏼 cheers to 2025 and beyond! And thanks for sharing your experience 💕
I completely agree with you, when we focus on metrics we interfere with the essence of the dream. It’s a really vibe killer as dreams — creative or otherwise — are attracted to us when we’re in the right place, with the right intention, to receive it.
So many “YES’s!” here, Elin. After working in sales and marketing for sooo many years, it’s a real effort to re train my brain out of this structured, goal-oriented way of thinking, but I’m working on it, day by day. It’s easy to get sucked into the “hack the algorithm” mindset on Substack, but it kills my joy. Thanks for your timely sparks of inspiration! ✨
Isn’t it fascinating how we need to unschool ourselves from the mainstream way of thinking?! Cheers to more dreams and thanks for sharing your experience!
I re-learn every time I get into ‘must get serious about this’ mode that my soul feels stifled and creativity muse is like ‘what the heck is this vibe?!’
I actually have a draft post with that same quote, ‘make it exist first..’ as the title, it’s about something very unpolished I published a while back.
Dreams have the intelligence of the non-linear nature of everything. Strategy feels like trying to control and condense everything into linear, predictable actions and results. Not sexy IMO!
Love that you’ve got the same in the drafts… connection ✨nope nope not sexy at all 🔥 it’s fascinating how the keeps going in cycles, constant reminders of the cyclical life…
There’s something about this quote that really hit me ✨🤯
“When I started to share my art on Instagram I didn’t have a plan or goal. I had a dream.”
It made me realize (because I come from the business world and am just stepping into my creative self)- that I’ve always shared and taken action from a goal and let my dream take the lesser seat.
So appreciative of this share Elin 💕 it’s definitely going to have me walking differently in the world!!
Hi Elin, I'm thankful for coming across your writing. I'm. currently going through a lot of life transition and for some reason, storytelling is the only thing that is accepting, holding, and giving me energy. I have the dream of being able to use storytelling as a way to create more richness in my life but sometimes I feel pulled to being on the "safe" side. However, the "safe" side hasn't really worked out and I still feel disconnected to my own dream. Thank you for the reminders that reoccurring dreams are a sign that something grand is waiting.
Elin, this is just what I needed to read today. I'm very much a planner but I need to let my dreams take centre stage occasionally, well maybe more than occasionally...
Elin, I know I'm commenting a lot lately so I'm sorry, but just wanted to say that this newsletter is helping me immensely right now. When I read it, I feel like I'm on the right path with all my creative endeavors right now in 2025, which is the first time in a long time I've felt so aligned with what I'm posting online. You're speaking my language. So thank you!
Dont apologise!! I’m delighted more than anything and so glad my writing is resonating with you at this important moment 🙏🏼
Don’t forget that your job when following your dream is to have fun. When it’s not fun anymore it means we did something wrong along the way and the dream disappeared. Cheering you on the sideline as you post your memoir!
You perfectly encapsulated everything I’ve been feeling as we left 2024. I was in New Orleans for Thanksgiving, and it was during that time that this exact thought process clicked for me. I was being too strict with myself. I wasn’t allowing myself to create just to create. Over the last month, I’ve just lived from my soul and have already seen better results. We don’t need gurus, we just need a small cohort to help us keep going
That’s for sure! There’s so much power in listening to our guts and having support from an authentic community 🙏🏼 cheers to 2025 and beyond! And thanks for sharing your experience 💕
I completely agree with you, when we focus on metrics we interfere with the essence of the dream. It’s a really vibe killer as dreams — creative or otherwise — are attracted to us when we’re in the right place, with the right intention, to receive it.
Right place and right time, there you got it 💖
So many “YES’s!” here, Elin. After working in sales and marketing for sooo many years, it’s a real effort to re train my brain out of this structured, goal-oriented way of thinking, but I’m working on it, day by day. It’s easy to get sucked into the “hack the algorithm” mindset on Substack, but it kills my joy. Thanks for your timely sparks of inspiration! ✨
Isn’t it fascinating how we need to unschool ourselves from the mainstream way of thinking?! Cheers to more dreams and thanks for sharing your experience!
Resonate with every word!
I re-learn every time I get into ‘must get serious about this’ mode that my soul feels stifled and creativity muse is like ‘what the heck is this vibe?!’
I actually have a draft post with that same quote, ‘make it exist first..’ as the title, it’s about something very unpolished I published a while back.
Dreams have the intelligence of the non-linear nature of everything. Strategy feels like trying to control and condense everything into linear, predictable actions and results. Not sexy IMO!
Love that you’ve got the same in the drafts… connection ✨nope nope not sexy at all 🔥 it’s fascinating how the keeps going in cycles, constant reminders of the cyclical life…
There’s something about this quote that really hit me ✨🤯
“When I started to share my art on Instagram I didn’t have a plan or goal. I had a dream.”
It made me realize (because I come from the business world and am just stepping into my creative self)- that I’ve always shared and taken action from a goal and let my dream take the lesser seat.
So appreciative of this share Elin 💕 it’s definitely going to have me walking differently in the world!!
Thank you so much for sharing Megan!! Love hearing your experience 🙏🏼
Thank you I feel like you are allowing me to play!
Yes that’s exactly it!!! Play 💖
Hi Elin, I'm thankful for coming across your writing. I'm. currently going through a lot of life transition and for some reason, storytelling is the only thing that is accepting, holding, and giving me energy. I have the dream of being able to use storytelling as a way to create more richness in my life but sometimes I feel pulled to being on the "safe" side. However, the "safe" side hasn't really worked out and I still feel disconnected to my own dream. Thank you for the reminders that reoccurring dreams are a sign that something grand is waiting.
Elin, this is just what I needed to read today. I'm very much a planner but I need to let my dreams take centre stage occasionally, well maybe more than occasionally...