Your shadow is always attached at the feet. Whatever you’re running from starts where you stand.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Distance does not solve something that travels with you. A new school, a new job or a new city changes the scenery and keeps the one thing you were hoping to leave, because it was never in the old place to begin with. That is no reason to stay put. It is a reason not to expect the move to do the work for you.

If you are planning an escape from something this week, name what you are hoping to leave behind. Then ask which part of it would follow you. That part is worth starting on now, wherever you end up.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What would you still have to face after moving away?

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