This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com.

This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is a chapter from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is a chapter from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

Taylor Swift singing in cabins in the forest. The rise of /r/cottagecore and /r/simpleliving on Reddit. Secretly fantasising about being one of the kids learning to survive in the woods in Captain Fantastic. When women have more freedom than ever, what’s with the trend of wanting to leave the office and vanish into the woods forever to grow squashes, bake pies, and raise a few goats? Here’s one perspective. https://www.livewildly.co/blog/dropping-it-all-to-start-a-farm/ (Read the blog post here) and https://live-wildly.mykajabi.com/life-studio (sign up for Life Studio here).

Is a life without a grand mission a failure? Is having multiple career paths a sign you can’t commit to anything? Is not knowing where you’re going a problem? No, of course not. If anything, it’s more interesting.

Your life doesn’t need a purpose or grand ambition. It’s enough to just wander along following your curiosity, finding interesting things, and sharing what you know until you die. Doing that – and aspiring to be a good creature along the way – makes for a pretty fantastic life, really.

What does matter is making yourself proud. That means living in a way you admire and valuing your time enough to not stay too long in a place you feel stuck.

Music credits Canyon Bird Life / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

Today's pep talk is about making room for creativity. How can you set aside the time, space, freedom, and self-belief to prioritise your imagination and creativity more than you ever have before?

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Music credits Canyon Bird Life / courtesy of epidemicsound.com