Hey Queen,
Read this when you feel like you’ve been thrown into the deep end of new lessons and learning curves.
What’s the one word you’d use to describe the last four weeks of life?
I just spent the last 60 seconds trying to come up with words that feel less vulnerable to share, but there’s simply no point in fluffing it up – the past month of my life has been
✨ DIZZY and CONFRONTING ✨
Dizzy – because I’ve felt a bit disoriented, like I can’t fully see what’s happening within or around me.
Confronting – because I’ve come face-to-face (again and again) with the ways I need to grow and change.
My guess is that you’ve felt this too, maybe many times, as a growth oriented gal.
This is the less shiny side of growing into a new identity: From the outside, everyone’s cheering you on, but on the inside, you’re just trying to learn how to swim without swallowing too much water.
I’m not here to act like I have it all figured out. And I’m definitely not here to plaster a rainbow‑glitter‑unicorn smile on the story just because I’m “The Fun Coach.” 🦄
That’s not what we do here.
Living a fun-focused life isn’t about turning every moment into a dance party.
It’s about creating a baseline standard of joy you can return to.
I’ve learned a lot this month:
I’ve learned how to meet the needs of all the past versions of myself – seven year old me who just wants to be held, sixteen year old me who just wants to feel understood, and twenty year old me who just wants someone to check in on her.
I’ve learned that it’s time to hone in on leadership and develop the necessary skills to lead a movement.
I’ve learned that the era of “winging it” in business and on social media is officially over, and that strategic moves are actually less energetically draining.
Before I had clarity on these things, I just felt confused. It was heavy, and in the midst of figuring it all out, the inevitable overarching insight is something I already know very well:
Fun-ifying the entrepreneurial journey is absolutely essential for learning without getting crushed.
Through all this, I got sucked into the hustle vortex (because it never stops happening, you just learn to get out faster and faster). And WOW does life feel overwhelming and sometimes straight up impossible in there.
If you’re new here, we define hustle as operating from urgency, anxiety, and fear of the future. It shows up as an inability to be present, pressure to be productive, and a need to get it all perfect.
Hard work is welcome. Hustle can suck a thumb. 👎
That shit stifles creativity, people skills, big-picture thinking, and productivity — all the things entrepreneurs need to be locked in on.
So while I’m figuring out life and business just like you, here’s how I’ve been fun-ifying my learning curves (and why it’s helping):
🎢 What I Did to Fun-ify the Challenges
- Picked up a new Play Parallel (aka a hobby that develops the same skills you need in other areas of life): Rock climbing.
This is teaching me to slow down, breathe, and focus instead of winging everything like a flailing rag doll. (I have no idea why that’s the visual that came to mind, but it’s accurate.) I’m becoming more calculated, less reactive. - Allowed myself to dilly-dally.
This looks like trimming my rose bushes, sipping coffee, and making my space look, feel, and smell nice. I don’t rush through this, simply because I enjoy it — those little things fill my cup. (because they’re actually the big things.) - Prioritized friend time.
I rearranged commitments to take a last-minute beach trip with my bestie. 🏖️ This was hard because I’m so fired up about what I’m building, but I know that:
A) Everything I touch turns to gold when my connection cup is full.
B) If I were dying, I’d regret putting projects > people. - Embraced my “Stop, Drop, and Flow” motto for content creation.
When I get a video or caption idea, I stop what I “should” be doing and create it. Having this flow space lets me stay on track with other plans without feeling creatively boxed in.
Doing these things helped me zoom out, give myself grace, and create from a place of dazzlement (there’s no way that’s a real word??) instead of pressure or fear.
So if you’re in a season of figuring things out, PLEASE, for the love of cheese 🧀, don’t forget to stuff every nook and cranny of your life with sweet, sweet enjoyment.
You’re not a machine, and you’ll never thrive pretending to be one. Enjoy your life, like the magical human you are, and watch the unfolding. ✨
xoxo – Kari