Nana-Ama Danquah Tells Us

“One day I’ll make it.” Is your goal taking up so much of your attention that you reduce the present moment to a means to an end? Is it taking the joy out of your doing? Are you waiting to start living? If you develop such a mind pattern, no matter what you achieve or get, the present will never be good enough; the future will always seem better. A

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You can manage your time like a ninja, make vision boards, and set quarterly goals till the future’s so bright you gotta wear shades, but if all those systems don’t work, then something’s…not working. You can meditate till your sit bones are blue, pray, process, train, affirm, think positive, therapize, and if you’re still not a calmer, more genero

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I work either way, you see—assisted or unassisted—because that is what you must do in order to live a fully creative life. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether I am touched by grace or not, I thank creativity for allowing me to engage with it at all. Because either way, it’s all kind of amazing—what we get to do, what we get to

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