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On Answering Great Questions & A Company Called Sevenly

On Answering Great Questions & A Company Called Sevenly

by shaunnawest | Aug 14, 2017 | About me, Business, Confessions, Marsh Collective, Project Gallery, Reflections, Sevenly, Shop Talk, Styling

I’ve been thinking about questions lately.  The ones I ask myself.  The ones I want other people to answer.  The ones that make me think. What is the most challenging thing you’ve done lately? To answer this question, we gotta ramble a little… So...

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Happy Saturday from this beautiful pile of almost Happy Saturday from this beautiful pile of almost paint to you!⁣ ⁣ Swipe to see what that little pile became. 🎨😉⁣ ⁣ #paintpigment #terraverte #mixingpaint #paint #oilpaint
It is not for nothing.⁣ ⁣ The ups and downs an It is not for nothing.⁣ ⁣ The ups and downs and the places where you feel like nothing is moving. The places where nothing feels right. The places that seem to stretch beyond the beyond...these places are all for something.⁣ ⁣ You move through them, piece by piece, and moment by moment, all the while forming. All the while becoming.⁣ ⁣ It is not for nothing.⁣ ⁣ I promise. 🧡⁣ ⁣ #quote #notfornothing #wordstoliveby
No witty caption. No powerful words. It's been a No witty caption. No powerful words. It's been a long week and sometimes, a simple picture is enough...and just dang pretty.⁣ ⁣ Mixed up some terra verte pigment last week...maybe the most relaxing activity I'm into these days. Minus mediation. 😉⁣ ⁣ #paint #paintpigment #terraverte #green #painting #oilpaint
Women. And a few of you men that read here. I wa Women. And a few of you men that read here. I want you to hear this tonight. I want to hear it.⁣ ⁣ I spent time today talking with clients. Cried with one, and I felt every moment. Clients who were feeling scared, or feeling unsure. I tried to remind them, and myself, some truths. Truths that feel impossible to remember when we are FEELING life so deeply.⁣ ⁣ Feeling like they've spent a LOT of time WASTING time. And it always feels that way in the muck. In life. In business. We spend a lot of time feeling like it's a waste. That because we're lost, we're going nowhere. Feeling that because we're stuck there is no inching forward.⁣ ⁣ But the secret, I think? I hope?⁣ ⁣ Is that we are seldom on the mountaintops and in the valleys. The moments there are fleeting. We are ALMOST ALWAYS in the INCHING of BECOMING. It is brutal. And it is beautiful.⁣ ⁣ And that's it. We spend a most of our time on the climb. And the fall. The moments of elation and the moments of the deepest sorrow or struggle pass relatively quickly on the grand timeline, and most of the damn time, we are in the TRYING. Trying to make it work while we climb. Trying to hang on while we fall.⁣ ⁣ And maybe, just maybe, that's why it becomes not just important, but essential for us to embrace the soaring that comes from within. The soaring within doesn't listen to the noise of the climb or the whirring of the fall. It wraps you up in love. It tells you you will make it to the next thing. It reminds you it's possible to go somewhere new, and that no matter what it looks like, you will move. That life will continue moving around you, and you will move with it, and one day, you will look up and be "there," wherever there is.⁣ ⁣ And the climb becomes a little less strenuous. The fall becomes a little less scary. The mountaintop becomes something you treasure in the present moment. The valley becomes the place you no longer deeply fear, but feel INTO. It all becomes part of this crazy life. And in the moments you can, you soar.⁣ ⁣ You soar. You soar. You soar.⁣ ⁣ #writer #writersofinstagram #quotes #quotesofinstagram #soar
Hey lovely humans...hope your 4th was filled with Hey lovely humans...hope your 4th was filled with good moments and time with family and those you love.⁣ ⁣ ....⁣ ⁣ Some fun updates this week coming to you...a tutorial for mixing paints with pigments (you guys asked over @thecreativeexponent too), the next update on our house and the living room/common spaces design board, a new chapter reading of The Middle, and I'll be sharing some TCe Community happenings here so you can see what we're up to there. Pop over to my stories this week to get some house updates when we go meet with the builder!⁣ ⁣ ....⁣ ⁣ Also, can't get enough of this green and my dining room studio situation. Been such a gift to have a space downstairs to work in! Off to make moves. Lots to attempt today. 😉⁣ ⁣ #paintpigment #naturalearthpaint #apothecaryjar #paintpalette #painter #paint #studio
Just a happy, lazy Sunday afternoon from Oliver to Just a happy, lazy Sunday afternoon from Oliver to you. 🤎 #chocolatelabradoodle
I was lucky enough to steal a few minutes away in I was lucky enough to steal a few minutes away in my “studio”/dining room this week to mix up some pigments and begin working on new color palettes. Sometimes the best thing we can do is to play, even if for just a few moments. #paint #paintpigment #paintersofinstagram #paintpalette #colorpalette
Sometimes love is all there is. And it moves EVER Sometimes love is all there is. And it moves EVERYTHING. From the next chapter of The Middle, hopefully coming out this week. I have learned that in my business, and in my life, to soak up my moments of love, and the hope it brings with it...to soak it up thoroughly.⁣ ⁣ It's so easy, right? To get busy and be about the to do's and not see just how incredible the easy, good moments are. But mama, if you have a few (or many) really rough years, then you look at the "good times" a little differently, right??⁣ ⁣ So when I say this, know I mean it with absolute sincerity: Thank you for this time in my work. This time of good, and easier, and fun, and encouragement...it takes all of us and not just me. I never thought I would find myself back in the online world, and now that I'm back here, I find that I'm so surprised at how welcoming you guys were and are. How much you have spoken life into my life this year.⁣ ⁣ So see? You did it, too...you gave the "love is the only option" gift. And you brought with it hope. ❤️⁣ ⁣ #hope #love #quote #quotesofinstagram #writer #writersofinstagram #themiddle

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