What to do when encouragement sounds cliche.

What to do when the encouragement sounds too cliche?

Well, hello everyone.

I am Morgan and welcome to today's episode.

This is a part of a series I'm beginning

where I am going to be unpacking some different things that I've illustrated and the story behind them.

Now, the thing about this and I've done this strategically is the way that I'm going to be talking about this is that you don't have to see the images.

So if you've never seen these illustrations, it is absolutely okay.

And of course, I will link them in the show notes if you would like to see them.

But that is not necessary.

It's not a part of, you know, what you need in order to be able to unpack this with me.

So I did a series a few months ago where I did a side by side frame where it was a phrase at the top.

And the first one was embrace the process.

And then it was a side by side frame beneath it where it was like what it sounds like.

So what embrace the process sounds like and then

what embrace the process actually feels like. And on the left on the very first frame, there is this

stick figure that is holding like embracing the process.'s like a a little ball where all of these

arrows are going in and out but all of it it's a process but all fits into this nice little ball

that can be embraced and held like a adorable kitten or puppy. And then there is the what it

feels like frame, which is the exact opposite. Now this neatly formed ball of a process that looks like a little globe with airplanes just neatly

traveling around the globe has now exploded into a never-ending spool of spaghetti and I know spaghetti isn't on a spool, but it's just

spaghetti, as if spaghetti were unwound and it's surrounding this person. And now that process

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