when's the last time you did a quality check?
slow down to keep up.
"Everything is about adjusting, changing and growing. Comfort kills creativity. Just because it works doesn't mean it's working." - Mason
Last week in my apartment, I had a crazy experience where my plumbing was backed up in multiple places, causing chaos in my kitchen, its appliances, and my bedroom and it took about four days to clear everything up.
With there being a plumbing problem and a growing concern about health issues, I made the decision this week to boil my water before placing it in my water filter to drink. To my surprise, this one act led me to a very important discovery.
One of the plants in my living room had been barely surviving for a few weeks and I decided to pour some of the newly filtered water into it even though the last time I watered it nothing changed. A day or two goes by and I could IMMEDIATELY see my plant starting to return to life. It occurred to me that the plumbing problem coming to a head meant that the build-up of not-so-good water: 1. had been happening for weeks before now and 2. that water was the same water I had been using to water my plants.
Some problems, like my plumbing, don’t just suddenly happen all at once, sometimes it’s a gradual build that slowly chips away at something important in small pieces.
You see watering my plants wasn’t enough if the water was bad. Just because I was doing the necessary thing, didn’t mean I was doing it in a way that was beneficial to the plants.
I feel like that’s something you can take with you into this week: ‘what am I doing over and over again that looks good but doesn’t really feel good internally or have any real substance?’ Remember answering this question is not a check-in of your competency, it’s more about ensuring that what you’re consuming or feeding yourself is of quality to your overall well-being and is working for you, and not against you.
check the quality of what you’re taking in,
Melissa, founder of #blkcreatives
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