Letter of growth.

My life has always come in front of me in different phases more like a gang of boys who chose to attack me individually instead of coming up in groups.

The moment I am done fighting one of them and stop to take a deep breath, life takes out another phase from its pocket and slams it out on my face.

The only weird thing is that despite knowing all of this, I still choose to show up every day something that I have never done in college.

My creative journey has been no less than a rollercoaster ride. It’s all dark but I am still pushing forward with the hope and confidence to find a solid platform to stand upon.

This cycle of darkness and uncertainty can only be dealt with through:

• Hope

• Intention

• Patience

• Strong Mindset

A lot of people give up every day just because they aren’t mentally prepared to deal with these uncertain outcomes.

That’s when each one of us needs an indication that we are making progress in the correct direction to help us:

• Have faith in ourselves.

• Avoid temptations

Here are the 4 phases that you go through when you are following your passion:

• 1st phase: Uncertainty

• 2nd phase: Getting lost in your world

• 3rd phase: Holding on despite no progress

• 4th phase: Your dream turns into reality

Let's talk about each one of them in detail:

The first phase is all about

• Doubt

• Confusion

• Uncertainty

You behave like a hanging monkey from the branches, unsure about whether he should be sitting on the tree or the ground.

You are halfway stuck between:

• Should I be doing this for the rest of my life?

• Can I even make money out of this?

Use this phase to experiment and explore different parts to find out what resonates with your values and personality.

The following points can help you sustain this phase:

• Develop a strong mindset

• Follow your heart

• Keep chasing your curiosity

• Surrender to the universe.

• Expect an uncertain outcome.

The second phase is all about getting lost in your dreams and goals. You no longer bother to keep track of time.

• You are in the flow state and start visualizing your future self.

• You start having faith in your goals and develop the trust that you have already achieved what you wanted to do, it will soon turn into reality

You start creating strategies to help you reach where you want to be.

In the third phase, your momentum is equivalent to the second one though your results start declining (but you don't give up and instead start hunting for the cause)

Reason?

You lack systems.

• Momentum without a system leads to self-doubt

• Momentum accompanied by the system leads to persistence

A lot of people give up here and the ones who survive by taking the needed step head to the next phase, i.e their dream reality

Keep this graph in your head every time you are stuck.

Which phase are you in currently?

P.S.: I am not a designer, so please don’t laugh at the graph that I created. It took me quite a lot of time to make it :)