The Shadow Hunter

So... I need to be honest. This blog took days to write.  This is because my computer keeps yelling at me. A box with an urgent yellow triangle in the right hand corner of my screen kept  aggressively appearing with: YOUR DISK IS ALMOST FULL. SAVE SPACE BY OPTIMIZING STORAGE. Oy.   (IGNORE) I’ve moved documents and folders to the cloud, but my computer has a woefully tiny drive and every giant PDF and powerpoint I download for work eats that right up.   Finally, I surrendered to the yellow triangle, and t he act of moving and removing files was actually a cathartic process.  Each file I moved or deleted brought up a new memory. Some memories were very happy, others I greeted with an audible sigh of relief.  Here’s the thing about memories. They are in the past.  The initial pain, or happiness, whatever emotion they caused -- now presents a mirror to you — it is an echo of what you felt before. You can never feel THAT thing again — joy, grief, pain, excitement, anger — for better for wo

They say hindsight is 20/20, right? But I'm beginning to see that intuition is a hundred times stronger...its like hindsight and foresight combined (with some night vision thrown in there for fun)! It's really that powerful...the key is trusting it.  In Fall 2020 I pretty much flat out refused to listen to my intuition. I was VERY stubborn, but looking back, I learned a valuable lesson.  After I got back to the United States after working remotely in South America, my long-term freelance contract with a large agency in Milwaukee ended. They had offered me a generous full-time position, but deep inside I knew it wasn't for me. I declined the offer, and started tentatively building my business. I'd been wanting to start my own brand strategy business for years, and I finally had, but admittedly, I was afraid of allowing it to grow.  I was afraid of branching out and networking and actually finding new business connections and staying with one agency just seemed so much...