A break from Hustle Culture re-aligned me!
This year has been go, go, go for me, non-stop hustle to achieve my dreams. Posting content and reels to attract clients, advice videos for my followers, attending networking events and a maintaining a consistent posting schedule to show the world that I am constantly creating and still in the game. It’s safe to say I was doing the most and somehow wasn’t attracting enough clients to keep me afloat. At the end of it I began to feel my creative spark start to dwindle.
As a result, I was lead to take some time away to reconnect with myself and to quieten down the noise from a culture and industry that requires constant productivity. My home town called Moraira in the beautiful east coast of Spain was calling me and so I took that as my sign to go back to a place where my love for writing, poetry and photography was born.
Here’s what I learned from my time away:
Being in an environment of ease and stillness calmed my nervous system which allowed me to create freely and be more experimentative without the fear of failure. The stillness highlighted the unhealthy relationship I had developed with my passions and offered me the chance to fall back in love with photography and reminded me of why I started in the first place.
Hustle culture put me in a state of constant comparison and competition. Being away from that allowed me to clearly see my own path and journey when it comes to my creative career.
God’s voice spoke louder to me . Similar to the point I made above, God’s unique path and the next steps were clearer and I was able to look at my becoming as part of the process and something beautiful without the urge to compare my journey to someone else’s. It helped me to not feel disheartened despite not being where I want to be and lead me to see that I am exactly where I’m MEANT to be.
Taking a month long break allowed me to breathe, to ground myself and to cleanse my thoughts and perspectives. Ensuring the energy I put out is positive and coming from a stress free space, not from a frequency of dis-ease, unhappiness or from a lack mentality. It re-alligned me!
As a result I have been attracting people and opportunities that help me flourish in my spirit and not in my ego to show me that my own vision and calling hold immense value and serve a higher purpose.
The desire now is for me to be able to create from a sustainable place and not from a space of hustle that forces me into burnout, but guides me gently into a place where my ideas can flourish and where I have the courage to put my work out there.
This journey of life and living in your purpose is difficult and can be confusing. Especially when you are consuming so many other experiences through social media, it’s easy to lose your way. I’m here to encourage you, not as someone who has “made it” but as someone who is still figuring out life and her journey as a creative. Embracing moments of stillness does not mean you are a failure, does not mean you are behind, it means you are human!
So I encourage you to take a break for however long you feel guided to and to also offer the advice to you (and to myself) to implement moments of grounding and stillness throughout your day!
Stay positive, peaceful and always speak life into yourself and your dreams!
With love,
Priya x
