Bex Hall

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Today marks the end of The 100 Day Project

I am forever changed

Create

Every one of us began this 100 day journey equipped with talents and gifts. We came together to practice these passions and learn. To listen for the whispers that call us forth to create whatever it is that needs creating.

The things only we are called to make.

We are asked to use our gifts and our talents, not let them lie dormant. We are asked to shine a light where there is darkness and bring beauty into being.

Individually we are writers, artists, explorers, photographers, filmmakers, podcasters, musicians, poets, designers, dancers, authors, illustrators, and artisans. We are makers.

We are creatives.

But now, having walked this 100 day path together, we are more. 

We are forever changed.

I cast a wide net when I set my goals for the project: Show up every day behind the pen, the brush, or the lens and share my work. And so I did. Some days were meh, but some were out of this world fantastic. Most were ordinary but extremely satisfactory. I learned when I practice creativity regularly, make it a priority, good things happen. Serendipity occurs often. Aha moments become more frequent. Breakthroughs. Flow. Opportunities. Harmony. Peace. Increased confidence. More experience. Discovery. A body of work. Community. Connections. 

The first step is to simply show up.

Onward.

I only write when inspiration strikes.

Fortunately it strikes at nine every morning.

Who said it? William Faulkner? Peter De Vries? Herman Wouk? Somerset Maugham?

According to Quote Investigator’s website, there’s no conclusive evidence who said it first. Regardless, the sentiment is amusing as well as aspirational.

I’ve found inspiration is more likely to make an appearance if I’ve shown up first. And good things tend to happen.

Show up regularly for a few weeks, or a month, and test it for yourself. You may find you and inspiration in a new relationship.

Make inspiration happen.
Freehand sketch, Micron pen on index card

Day 62/100

Everything that’s right for you

will make you feel at peace

Moon dance

Brianna Wiest seems to know exactly what I’m feeling.

She writes: Everything that is meant for you will feel like a deep exhale, as though you are returning home to a place you forgot existed. We so often yearn and want for the things that help us escape who we are, but the things that are actually meant for us — the ones that arrive and stay — they make us feel a sense of steady calm. We do not need to be swept off our feet, but grounded through them. In the moment is where love really exists. In the moment is the only place we can come alive.

Everything that is truly right for you will make you feel at ease. Everything that is truly right for you will seem so simple, so obvious, so comfortable. Everything that is truly right for you will choose you as quickly as you choose it. Everything that is truly right for you will happen serendipitously and spontaneously. It will come to you when you expect it and when you don’t, as both a surprise and a certainty. It will seem like such an obvious fact of your life and yet entirely new, all at once.

The truth is that we often come to believe that the things that are most right for us are the ones that give us the biggest emotions, and that is a mistake. The things that are truly right for us give us the deepest emotions. Love is a pervasive, steady presence, not a heart-pumping dash of lust. Destiny is a subtle coincidence, it makes you stop and say, well, isn’t it funny how that worked out.  

The truth is that what’s right for us isn’t a harsh declaration, it isn’t something we have to force or wonder about for too long. It isn’t something that leaves us looking for signs, it doesn’t require us to poll our friends to gather their opinions. It doesn’t leave us questioning, grieving, self-doubting. It doesn’t put us on hold. It doesn’t feel as though we have to grab it before it is gone, but rather, that it will always be waiting for us when we are ready.

The truth is that the things that are most right for us are also the easiest to miss, because they are often subtle at first.

Little things become big things over time, we just have to give them a chance. We just have to stay the course. We just have to realize that life will magnetize to us what is meant to be ours.

Our only job is to step out of the way.

Day 55/100 Day Project

The Mountain is You

Mugshot Monday with a message from Brianna Wiest

Let it go

Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends. It’s going to cost you being liked, and understood.

But it doesn’t matter, because the people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side, and you’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward.

Instead of liked, you’re going to be loved.

Instead of understood, you’re going to be seen.

All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are. 

Let it go.

Day 37/100 of The 100 Day Project.