To a large degree, summertime is for a freelancer synonymous with stress and anxiety. Everyone is waiting for decisions to be made, ie will my\u00a0show or film get a go ahead. Few decisions are made pre-summer because the decision makers leave for\u00a0vacation, which leads us freelancers in limbo, and we sometimes don’t know \u00a0whether we have work or not\u00a0during the fall. To head off for a vacation with that on your shoulders can be, mildly put, tricky.<\/p>\n
We started the Bead Movement to become more present, and not let life pass us by while being busy with our careers. It is a tool to keep us on track with our dreams and goals and where we are headed, so we can do and live our best each and every day.<\/p>\n
Fears have been creeping up on me this week when it comes to work, but having this month’s theme ‘faith’ in mind has been a lifesaver. Faith is to trust that whatever will come next is meant to come. It’s a matter of trusting that I have done the right thing, that I have done the best I could have had, and not to question that or myself. It’s so simple, but somehow quite hard to live by, and yet the only thing that gives peace.<\/p>\n
The past six months in my life has been about jumping out into the unknown both professionally and personally. It has felt as living without a safety net, and I have pushed beyond my fears and lived with faith. What I above all need now is to have a break. I need to get grounded again. I need to sit still, be still, to go within and listen. To get myself re-centered so I can make the right decisions come this fall. When knowing that that is the absolute best for me right now, it’s impossible to question it. And just like that, I let the worries go, and I choose to have time off. It’s vacation time, and I have just found myself a chair in the shade. It’s time to replenish, and above me is the clear blue Tuscan sky.<\/p>\n
Johanna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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