{"id":586,"date":"2024-02-28T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:30:51","slug":"going-pro-embracing-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Going Pro: Embracing Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>End of the month got the better of me, so this reflection is on the shorter side and lacks a worksheet, but here it is, all the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pressfield writes, &#8220;The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey&#8221; (95).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change is inevitable. To everything there is a season. Night always follows day always follows night. Even something as constant as the sun at the center of our solar system has a lifespan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beautiful thing about creative pursuits is that there is always something new inside of you. In Parks and Rec, after Leslie Knope&#8217;s success with the Pawnee Harvest Festival, she feared she had run out of good ideas. All she really needed was a good friend to force her to and rest her mind and body for a few hours straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their cocoons and chrysalises, moths and butterflies need time to transform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might be actively in a state of being that&#8217;s working for you and helping you make progress, or in a period of transformation reaching for the next step, or tentatively testing out a new form of yourself to see how it fits. Today&#8217;s stage isn&#8217;t forever. There&#8217;s always something to explore on the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March brings us into Book 3: Beyond Resistance. I&#8217;m finding that no one is actively reading along with me, so I&#8217;m going to forgo making a formal reading calendar, even as I continue to share my reflections. You can read along at your own pace whenever you discover these posts on the internet, and I want to conserve my energy rather than make graphics that create meaningless deadlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of the month got the better of me, so this reflection is on the shorter side and lacks a worksheet, but here it is, all the same. Pressfield writes, &#8220;The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readalong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephweavestales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}