I received a message from myself today:

Stop editing yourself.

I’m not talking about cutting up a video to make it easier to listen to, or chopping out some words from a paragraph to make it more readable.

I mean editing you.

Trying to show up a certain way. To control how you’re seen.

All that control is dimming your light.

To match an ideal you have about what the perfect creator is.

Who’s ideal is that anyway? Is it really yours?

It’s not perfection you’re after.

It’s freedom.

You don’t have to try hard to be free.

You simply have to stop trying so hard.

It’s in relaxing into your messy, unedited self that your light will shine the brightest.

Let yourself be effortlessly you.

Allow yourself to burst out of every seam and colour over the lines.

Let it all pour out of you. Watch how prolific you become.