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Personalisms 2021
Eight years ago (and three years before the launch of Picture This Clothing), I wrote “Personalisms” as the first in a series of explorations in writing and self-discovery. This moment was such an important milestone on the path that eventually led to creating and launching Picture This Clothing that I felt compelled to share it here to chronicle my ever-unfolding journey. It was interesting to me to read back through my old post and find that after the world’s crazy 2020–2021, I have a lot of similar feelings and fears I had back then. It’s pretty cool to look back and see progress made in some areas, and progress sorely needed in other areas.
One goal from my 2013 post was to write every single day, and I can tell you that the reality of that challenge set in very quickly. I failed after just seven days. I’m glad I failed. I mean, it would be awesome to say I did it and successfully built a daily writing habit, but instead, I learned to fall and get up and be OK with that. I learned to try different kinds of challenges with different durations. I learned that I could still set big goals, but I needed to break them down into little tiny bite-sized pieces to achieve those. Our company Picture This Clothing was born that way (read our awesome launch story here).
My goal is to post once per month for the next three months while also working on a few other projects. In three months I’ll…
