This week’s letter is short because right now there is 100 million things that I want to do…

The university societies, the readings for my course, the extra business programme, my Italian module, be in a play, make the content, meet the people, learn about other people’s ideas, date, go out, meal prep, teach yoga, work out, learn to roller blade, see my family, jour al, future plan- the list goes on.

If I was to hear someone else say this, I’d say woah slow down, you can’t possibly do it all at once! I’d say that they are likely to end up burnt out and unmotivated.

Sure, it is a lot! And likely not as productive as if I were to calm down a bit.

But my approach to navigating this has changed…

Rather than scaring myself about burn out, forcing myself to slow everything down and fear collapse… I’m looking at it with a Lil Lighter pair of glasses with a Lil Theory I like to call the Lil Ebbs and Flows.

However an important distinction to make is of your Hyper-achiever getting involved and trying to run the show - cause that isn’t the same thing, that is fear based and we are talking about empowerment. This will help you to catch and overcome it.

Right now I am in a flow, I feel inspired, passionate and motivated. I feel this whilst holding the fact that my environment and feelings will change and I still choose to see this as an exciting time for me, one where my energy is high.

I am choosing to honour my intuition, taking rests and saying no when I feel like it (because when I listen- it is pretty clear)

I am choosing to let myself feel the motions, the ebbs and flows of drive.

A) It feels good! The Flows feel great! E.g. today I stood up and spoke to a room of 60 or so members of UCL, staff and students about my mission for empowering change makers because I had a surge in confidence in my ideas, so I let it feel good!

B) It helps me move through the ebbs with a quiet hope - regardless of the reason and timing of an ebb in motivation, knowing that I will allow myself a flow to come

C) The flows are where things align - it in in these flows that I meet the cool people who are attracted to my energy, when I help someone to uncover a Lil power they have inside them, when I sign up to the activity that teaches me that thing I have been wondering about…

Because the flows are simply free periods of self-empowerment!(Empowerment = confidence = self-belief and if you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you are damn right)

If you are in an Ebb or you are in a Flow - let it. It will pass and the next will come, and then the next and the next.

It is up to you to see it as something to make the most of rather than be afraid of.. Because then even the ebbs are empowering too!