Dear Creativity,
There’s a version of me that wants to have everything perfectly figured out before I begin. She wants the whole map, a compelling argument, a just-right timeline. She drafts and redrafts and thinks maybe next month will be better.
You know her well.
But you’ve been teaching me a different way. You’ve been reminding me that clarity rarely arrives before the starting line. It shows up in motion. It shows up when I take a deep breath, trust the idea, and step in.
That photo?
It’s me doing something I once just proposed.
A presentation I debated submitting.
A topic I questioned
And then the day came, and I stood up, mic in hand, and realized: this idea was ready, not because I perfected it, but because I chose to move forward. That’s been the biggest shift for me lately. I don’t need a perfect plan. I need a small step, a simple test, a chance to try something in real life.
That’s also the heart behind something I’ve been building, a workshop called the Idea Hatch Lab.
It’s for people like me who tend to circle our ideas longer than we’d like to admit.
It’s a place to stop spinning and start building — not by going big, but by getting clear, getting curious, and starting small.
Thanks, as always, for walking beside me, and for whispering, “Start here. Start now.”
This has me wondering…
What could change if we stopped waiting to feel ready and just said yes?
Innovatively yours,
Dr. Abigail
