You're so, so tired

Putting gas back in the tank

Photo by Zoe on Unsp

Hello Team CCC! Hope you’re having a glorious summer! No Dear Daisy this week, but I thought this one from the archives might resonate. It’s already been quite a long 2024… (and if you have a Dear Daisy question I’d love to her from you. Send it to creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com)

We have a wonderful episode of the You’re Booked podcast tomorrow, with one of my favourite authors, Abi Daré. Find us, follow us and make sure that you’re the first to fill your ears with it!

Also there’s still plenty of time to express an interest in next year’s READ YOURSELF HAPPY retreat with Aweventurer. Sign up now and get dates and other details as soon as I have them. You can also let me know if you have a preference for where we go - Italy, or the Greek Islands…

Because you’re very tired…

You must be exhausted. You’ve had a hell of a week, what with all the work, and all the worry. The emails. The Choose Your Own Adventure hell of keeping 11AM on Thursday free for Jeremy, only for Jeremy to tell you, at 10.30AM on Thursday, it’s a no-can-do and how’s your October looking?!

Do you feel like a jeep that has worn out its tire treads? Most of the time, you’re more than capable of doing the most, and doing it the fastest. But you’ve not felt that way for a little while, right? You just need to get to the end of the week, the month, or the lunar cycle. Retirement or graduation. It’s a blip.

Or perhaps you’re older and wiser, and you know all about the fallacy of just needing to get to the end. The end of what? Life? You’re in the desert, walking through sandstorm after sandstorm and no-one is sending a camel for you.

Firstly, my friend – take a load off. You don’t need anyone’s permission to do anything, but for what it’s worth, I’d be delighted if you stopped reading for a minute. Have a cigarette, have a coffee, scroll a website filled with furniture and drool with your mouth open. Sing to a song on the radio. Scream into a cushion. Take five. I have no authority here, but I would like to give you five minutes. I wish I could give you five years.