My Hobby Year: How Sketching Wildflowers is Teaching Me How to be Bad at Things || More Personal Preview

About Progress

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Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This episode is a special shortened preview from More Personal, Monica's premium, private, ad-free podcast for the Supporters Club, starting at just $5 a month. Join the HERE TO STAY: 250 SUPPORTERS DRIVE and help ensure About Progress doesn't just make it to its 10 year anniversary this Fall, but make it so it's here to stay. Join the club ⁠HERE⁠. What if the point of hobbies isn't to be good at them? (A novel idea for us recovering perfectionists, I know . . . ) Ever start a hobby with excitement, only to face the harsh reality that you're not good at it? Welcome to my February Hobby Year update. This month I dove into sketching wildflowers, and QUICKLY discovered I'm bad at it. Really bad. But here's the twist: I promised to send these amateur drawings to new Supporters as handmade cards. Cue the inner perfectionist panic. In this episode, I'm sharing what happened when I sat down with my sketch book, why promising these cards to people accidentally turned my hobby into a job, and the permission I had to give myself to be bad at something and share it anyway. Plus: a ballet class update (spoiler: I haven't been back yet), why February was supposed to be my "easy hobby month" (oops!), and my plans to tackle quilting in March. If you've ever struggled to make time for hobbies, felt embarrassed about not being instantly good at something, or wondered if it's okay to enjoy imperfect pursuits—this one's for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What you're about to hear is an exclusive shortened preview for more personal, my private premium
0:05.2	ad-re podcast reserved for two levels of the Supporters Club starting at just $5 a month.
0:11.4	This month, I am running Here to Stay, the 250 supporters drive. It's our push to help about
0:17.7	progress not just reach its 10-year anniversary, but to be truly here to stay.
0:22.8	Reaching 250 supporters covers the bare-bones cost of running the show, so it can remain free,
0:28.6	accessible, and steady for everyone. No adding a paywall, no increasing the number of ads.
0:34.5	We're moving that thermometer up, and every new supporter helps lock this in. Even the lowest
0:39.4	level at $2 a month makes a real difference. In this month, every supporter is getting something
0:43.8	special for me and I'm raffling off favorite thing packages every week pulling from all supporters.
0:50.0	The Supporters Club is not a charity. There are three levels of benefits you'll love for more time to more content with me.
0:56.0	This preview is of one of those benefits, more personal, a show I air weekly to the top two levels, starting at $5 a month.
1:03.5	It's always ad-free, but not when it's on about progress, so you will hear some ads today, and it will be shortened as well.
1:09.8	If you've ever thought, I'd miss this show if it
1:11.9	went away and have considered joining the supporters club. This is a really fun and meaningful moment to do it.
1:17.6	You can sign up at Aboutprogress.com slash support, and thank you for making About Progress here to
1:23.2	stay. Home should be the place you actually want to be. This is something I have long been passionate
1:31.8	about, which is one of the many reasons why I love interior design, because it's not just
1:36.4	about how your home looks, it's how it feels. If you have an area in your home that's feeling
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