#reverb10 Prompt: Future self. Imagine yourself five years from now. What advice would you give your current self for the year ahead? (Bonus: Write a note to yourself 10 years ago. What would you tell your younger self?)
In five years time, I will be working in my studio full time. What I would tell my current self is that over the next year, I have to make sure that I learn as much as possible, practice, practice, practice and never give up, no matter who or what gets in my way. When obstacles come, experience them, learn from them, but move on; do not linger. I have a lot of work to do and experience to gain in order to produce a body of work for the public.
To my younger self, I would say:
Get it together and keep it together. Don’t listen to the voices in your head that are trying to scatter you. Don’t listen to the voices outside your head, telling you what they think you should be doing. No one else knows what is best for you.
You are agonising over leaving your job of fifteen years to work on your own, but it is the best thing you will do to propel yourself forward to the next stage of your life. Your life will take on a totally different focus and the things that matter to you now will no longer be important.
Make a plan, revise it, pray on it, use it. You will amaze yourself with what you can do. You have a gold mine within you.
Do not be pulled in to other people’s drama, and there will be a lot. Live your life not anyone else’s.
Do not be concerned. God will provide. Just show up and do your work. The next ten years will definitely not be a breeze; and that is why you need to take care of yourself, love yourself, appreciate and trust yourself, so that you will be able to handle the drama that is coming your way.
