There’s a quiet but powerful shift that happens when you stop thinking of life as something that’s happening to you and start seeing it as something you are creating.
Not just reacting or managing, but intentionally crafting with pen in hand, blank page before you, writing your own story.
This is what I’ve come to think of as authorship. And lately, I’ve been asking myself: Am I living by default or by design?
Authorship, to me, means consciously shaping the narrative of my life. It’s being intentional with how I spend my days, who I surround yourself with, what I say yes to and just as importantly, what I say no to.
It’s acknowledging that even if I can’t control every plot twist, I can choose how I move through it. I can decide the tone, the theme, and the meaning I make of it all.
And maybe the most freeing part? I can rewrite, pivot and evolve. There’s always a new chapter waiting to be written.
So today I’m sitting with these questions—and maybe you’ll want to sit with them too:
- What story am I currently telling through the way I live?
- Where am I outsourcing authorship, letting someone else’s script run the show?
- What would it look like to take the pen back into my own hands?
Here’s to living wild awake, to writing with intention, and to becoming the author of a life that feels deeply, beautifully, yours.
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