While my California trip was lovely (thank you for asking 🌴), I did adopt an important task on my journey.
For most of the f-words we’ve covered so far, I’ve leaned heavily on my commonplace book — a collection of hundreds (and soon thousands) of notecards with ideas, quotes, and scribbles from all sorts of things I’ve stumbled across. Books, movies, conversations — you name it, there’s probably a notecard birthed from it.
The point is that it extends your brain. It makes it easier to connect far-off dots. And, frankly, it makes the writing a hell of a lot more fun because now there’s a bit of treasure-hunting involved.
But there’s this other approach people use that’s intuition-based. They just listen… to life, to what’s around them, to what’s inside them… and that’s where they get amazing material for their work.
I wanted to try this approach for this week’s post because I believe intuition and mental health are two sides of the same coin. The better things are working upstairs, the more able you are to listen in an intuitive way.
Tbh, I’m not even sure what that means quite yet. But I’m learning, and hopefully, you’ll be interested enough to learn with me when we get around to that topic.
So, where did my intuition lead?
At first, I really thought the f-word was going to be “fake” given that LA is the plastic surgery capital of the world (fun fact, it’s not — South Korea is; and actually Miami and Salt Lake City (yes, in freakin Utah) actually beat out LA too… who would’ve guessed!).
But then I got on a ferry set for the Golden Gate Bridge and the word hit me like 400lb gorilla.1
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