I couldn't read this silently. Half way through I started reading aloud to my wife and we both sat here with our jaws hanging open while mediocrity was eloquently slain on the page.
Amber, losing a contract like that just sucks. It’s one of those punches that makes your stomach drop, and you can’t stop replaying it in your head, thinking about what you could’ve done differently. I’d be losing my mind honestly.
But you! You turned all of that into this essay. It’s proof you can dance in the rain, even when every fiber of your being was hoping for sunshine.
Funny thing - I published a note about not lowering our expectations, a few moments before your essay came in. I was reserving it for today but had this unshakable urge to send it out yesterday instead. So your essay felt like the other half of a conversation I didn’t even know I was having.
Let’s start an alliance against mediocrity (preferably one where we leave dizzy, not safe)
Amber, this really captures something true about the challenge of choosing an uncertain path. Love how you frame the mediocrity trap—those 'bad-but-not-too-bad' situations that keep us in their orbit with their comfortable furniture of predictability. Your distinction between avoiding uncertainty and choosing what we're willing to be uncertain about really made me think. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for reading and resonating. I so appreciate your reflections along the way - only more validation that this is something that we all feel...but also something that ultimately passing...and revisits...and passes... haha
This is a banger. Essential reading for anyone wanting to live beyond mediocrity. And really timely for me, as on Sunday I got my own version of the contract-not-going-through-email.
Keep dancing in the uncertainty and doing your thing.
photos look nothing like you both however after reading, I saw you both through them without fail - great to 👀 Amber and Aishwarya in virtual thriving ✨️
Amber, I really enjoyed your piece. You really captured the up and down, the high and lows of moving through life and being self determined. Thank you for highlighting the resiliency it takes to believe that the journey you want to walk is the journey that you have to walk.
I couldn't read this silently. Half way through I started reading aloud to my wife and we both sat here with our jaws hanging open while mediocrity was eloquently slain on the page.
omg i wrote the second half and reading this makes me emotional
I second Aish on the emotions flooding through ... :')
Two of my faves dropping absolutely wisdom!! So timely, probably for everyone in this space. Will be saving and reading again and again. BESOS
Awwww mi amor....you know you know you know the vibes. Besos <3
Amber, losing a contract like that just sucks. It’s one of those punches that makes your stomach drop, and you can’t stop replaying it in your head, thinking about what you could’ve done differently. I’d be losing my mind honestly.
But you! You turned all of that into this essay. It’s proof you can dance in the rain, even when every fiber of your being was hoping for sunshine.
Funny thing - I published a note about not lowering our expectations, a few moments before your essay came in. I was reserving it for today but had this unshakable urge to send it out yesterday instead. So your essay felt like the other half of a conversation I didn’t even know I was having.
Let’s start an alliance against mediocrity (preferably one where we leave dizzy, not safe)
EEEEP! Movement against mediocrity .... dancing in community outside of our comfort zone somehow makes it the right amount of safe, ya?
Happy to get to do it together.
ya yeet
Amber, this really captures something true about the challenge of choosing an uncertain path. Love how you frame the mediocrity trap—those 'bad-but-not-too-bad' situations that keep us in their orbit with their comfortable furniture of predictability. Your distinction between avoiding uncertainty and choosing what we're willing to be uncertain about really made me think. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for reading and resonating. I so appreciate your reflections along the way - only more validation that this is something that we all feel...but also something that ultimately passing...and revisits...and passes... haha
This is a banger. Essential reading for anyone wanting to live beyond mediocrity. And really timely for me, as on Sunday I got my own version of the contract-not-going-through-email.
Keep dancing in the uncertainty and doing your thing.
The universe really out here like, "Gonna chase your dreams this year or WHAT?"
We're in it together. 🧚♀️
photos look nothing like you both however after reading, I saw you both through them without fail - great to 👀 Amber and Aishwarya in virtual thriving ✨️
What do you mean? These are *absolutely* Aish and I??? haha I hope genAI mivin is also #living 🫀
Amber, I really enjoyed your piece. You really captured the up and down, the high and lows of moving through life and being self determined. Thank you for highlighting the resiliency it takes to believe that the journey you want to walk is the journey that you have to walk.
may you walk on your journey and do so with joy
William!! If there's one thing that's certain about the journey of uncertainty, it's that we're all on it together. :)
…we happen to the world…the world happens to us…our happenings happen together…pretty sure this is how people become happy…
traveling the world to come back to each other!!!