MMM Newsletter #3: Write your future self
- Sebastian Ernst
- Oct 10, 2022
- 3 min read
👋 Hi, Sebastian here!
Welcome to my weekly Mind Makes Matter Newsletter, where I am sharing my latest creative thinking and doing, plus articles, posts, ideas and anything else I found helpful as a designer, creative coach and mindful human.
Let’s jump right in!
🤝How to check in with your future self
When I was considering becoming a certified Creative Coach (all the way back in 2019), I wanted to know if coaching can actually create sustainable results.
So I recruited my business leadership coach Amaia Sotes. It sounds clichee, but the whole experience was simply transformative.
She gave me an interesting assignment that I invite you to try as well.
At the beginning of any transition in life, try to visualize who you will be after the transition.You can practice this by writing an e-mail to yourself in the future and schedule it to be sent out after the estimated time it takes for the transformation.
Some questions to consider:
What do I want to achieve?
What am I committing to in order to achieve my goals?
Which parts of me do I want to explore?
Where am I feeling resistance?
Here’s the email I wrote to my future self on February 7, 2021, when I started as Amaia's coaching client:
Note: If my e-mail to my future self was cringe-worthy to you, just make this exercise your own by applying your own writing style! 😉
🤯 One tool to fight TMI-too much information
I am becoming more mindful with my information consumption.
One way to control your intake of new information is to leave social media and subscribe to newsletters that fill your inbox with articles that actually interest you. That leaves you with another problem, though. What if you find an interesting post but don’t have time to read it at this moment?
With Instapaper, you can save any online article and add it to your own news feed. Then, schedule time for read through your feed at your own convenience, offline.
I am using Instapaper almost daily, feel free to check it out!
(Not sponsored BTW, just something I am using and you might find helpful.)
💅 An invitation to try things out
I’ve shared the following excerpt from this Forbes article with one of my clients who was afraid of becoming a “master of none” by exploring all her different passions. She recognized that her creative side gigs fueled her but she wasn't sure what this meant for her career.
Jack of all trades has become somewhat of an insult, but it didnʼt begin as one. The phrase was originally used to describe a playwright who was always hanging around the theatres. He would help with the stage, the set and the costumes. He would remember lines and try directing. This so-called jack of all trades was in fact William Shakespeare. The full phrase is “a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” It was a compliment. […] Picking an area and learning it inside-out is one way to begin a specialist career but trying lot of things can lead to self-discovery. To working out who you are and where your skills lie.
So free yourself of the belief that you have to become a "master of one" by cutting off everything else that interests and fuels you!
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