Colors for Transitional Seasons
How will you know who you can be if you do not practice becoming?
Whether finding the voice of a life, personal style, or artistry, we access our potential by practicing what we want to achieve. I can only learn so much the HOW of riding a horse without getting on the horse.
If you desire to know what your personal style is, it is not enough to look at outside sources and moodboard. You need to start dressing –in everything you own and, or want to own. (Of course, you do not need to buy nor keep what you try on. If you are unable to access a store in person, but have the financial means and consumption boundaries in place to order items online, this may be an alternate route to trying-on items you may want to own.) The point here is to try on identities without self-judgement.
It’s a lot of work to do the work, to try on and work through the ideas, styles, and identities when you don’t know if they are working or going to work out eventually. (Success is a personal judgement so only you can decide if something worked out or not.) Patience is required during the process of becoming. The refinement of talent, skill, and taste require a gathering of knowledge and experience, both of which take time. Knowing how you want to dress –usually after trying it all on– takes time.
Something I want you to remember as you develop a personal style and creative voice is that the anxiety about the outcome of what it will all look like in the end has it’s roots in self-judgement, comparison, expectation, and societal conditioning. “I have to do this,” “I should be this,” “I need to follow this,” style rule, trend, way of doing business, whatever it may be that you think you must be adhering to…you can throw it all out the window. No one knows what they are doing. Creativity is an on-going experiment of the imagination. Personal style is an on-going experiment of intuitive calling. We are all risk-taking. Approach your path to honing voice with the attitude of “I get to do this, I can do this, I want to do this, I choose to do this.” So much more freeing, no?
