Every Monday in 2025 there will be a new journal prompt in the Year of Hope classroom in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Leave them in the comments at the bottom of that page so we can discuss this as a group. Practicing hope in community is MAGIC.

Just over four months in. What has the Year of Hope DONE?

I continue to be REALLY behind in my Year of Hope daily journal.

AND I continue to BE more hopeful in my daily life.

The idea of filling a page a day with hope, every day all year long, ✨FELT AMAZING✨ when I came up with it in November/December 2024.

It does feel weird that four months in, keeping up with one page a day doesn't feel relevant.

This reminds me of something I learned in university.

I have a degree in fashion design. Often when we were doing projects, we would have to sketch out TONS of ideas, and then refine our ideas over time to arrive at the one final idea.

Like if you are making a pair of pants, you start by sketching 50 different pant ideas.

That felt daunting to me, I was like... there aren't 50 different kinds of pants.

But the idea is... there WILL BE 50 different kinds of pants after you've come up with 50 different pant ideas.

You don't start out already having all of the ideas - you have SOME ideas, and you give yourself some time and space to expand them.

I think about that a lot in all sorts of creative projects.

Not just about how you don't have to ALREADY HAVE the "perfect idea" to start.

But about how the idea you have to start with, you might think is THE ONE... but if you give yourself the space to sketch out 50 other ways to do it you may find something better.

It speaks to how creativity is GENERATIVE.

So, with my Year of Hope daily journal - I am behind, I am not showing up like I thought I would... AND... I feel really excited about how I will show up, given that I still have almost 8 months to keep practicing.

Each thing you try (in this case each page I fill) is not necesarily "a success". But it's a step on the road and there isn't a way to skip steps!

So, I just feel really grateful to be IN this process and to keep this commitment to stay with it for the rest of the year, in whatever way is possible for me, to let hope show me where it would like to take me.

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