This week has been one of the best for me and my partner.

First off, I wanted to say that I am beginning to notice how much my words affect my reality.

It doesn't serve me or us starting this newsletter with something negative. And this is why I choose right now to look at what I have gained instead of what I have lost.

And I urge you to do the same in your life.

As multipassionates, we claim so many negative words about how we can't finish all our projects and how we just aren't focused enough.

But there isn't as much energy placed on actually acknowledging the great, fun things about being us!

Secondly, I started off with the sentence above because this week has been a challenge in that my partner got diagnosed with dengue fever. We are currently in the hospital as I write this and in the thick of his treatment.

There are so many ways and avenues for me to see this trying time as a personal offense from the Universe.

But why?

Why do I need to blame anyone or anything outside me or within me, myself?

Why do we need to blame when something goes wrong? And then I realized that it's just a coping mechanism we often use to try to mitigate the painful thing that is in our own current reality.

And we forget that the pain can be inevitable but the struggle is often optional.

So even though we are going through this challenge right now, I see it as an opportunity for truly being vulnerable as humans and partners in life. We often hide our feelings from even those closest to us for fear of them leaving.

But the cliche is still right, the truth sets us free.

And right now, I feel that freedom. I feel that personal power of choosing a different narrative for my life and as I connect with others--especially with my partner--with love and kindness and strength.

And this is why, right now, this moment is one of the best for me.

Now, thirdly, as all this relates to having projects as a multipassionate, I would like to ask you the following questions:

How many is too many projects? Why is it too many?
What did you come to this project for? Experience, experimentation, creativity, money/ profit, friendship?
List them all out
Rate which excites you the most; follow accordingly
Take time to allocate time
Test it out
Share
Evaluate
I share the points above because I want you and me to remember that we are all just trying and testing here.

And even though sometimes our experiments take us years before we get what we came for, it's still an experiment nonetheless that we can choose to enjoy or make a very big deal about whether we've finished it or not.

I know how hard it can be to not want to seem flaky to others and to truly let go of what people who don't understand would think or feel. But that's just it, right? They don't understand. And we can't force them to.

And that is a challenge when you want to try to please everyone. But we don't have to do that anymore. You don't have to. It's impossible to please everyone, so why not instead please yourself just because?

I know I have been all over in this newsletter and I do hope you understand (because that's just the awesome, big-hearted person you are 🎉).

But I just wanted to speak more from my heart than my mind tonight and I wanted you to know that you are loved, you are supported, and you have—at each moment—the capacity to choose to trust yourself always. 💌

Thank you for being here and take care!

Elaine 💘