Its time to celebrate with a Postcard
The 1st celebratory moodle postcard in Mapambo Adornments - Edition 2024:3
Hello! Hello! Welcome one and all.
For 2024, I have joined with Safar Fiertze and others who have created an image inspired by a Substack post they’ve read (have a read here). O find out who else is participating, scroll to the end.
A phrase I’m living by this year is “falling back in love with life”, and I’m doing that in real life all sorts of delightful and joyful ways. So why not bring a little of that fun to this postcard and take more of the “pebble in the pond” approach by using it as an opportunity to celebrate others? Celebrating others is one of my life values1 and it’s also very much a part of the Substack culture I “mix” in, where a lot of encouragement and celebration happens every day.
Follow The Moodle Bug as she celebrates!
The moodle bug flits and visits three places on the postcard map: Someone In Real Life, Someone on Substack and Me. Each place is a chance to stop and celebrate a little, or a lot.
Someone In Real Life
Celebrating a group of people I know in real life.
The 17 South Africans who worked through some intense emotional and personal stuff with me when I facilitated a Growth Mindset Course for them in January.
Someone on Substack
Celebrating someone on Substack and particularly a piece that I’ve loved reading in the past month.
This month I’m celebrating
(also on Instagram) and this piece she wrote about Dart Boards and Tree Rings back in January - for helping me see something in a new way. Read more below.Myself
This stopping point is to acknowledge something I’ve done in the past month that I want to celebrate: it might be a Substack piece I’m proud of, or something I’ve done in the offline world.
I’ve been on Substack for a year. My focus has changed since I started but I’m pleased to be here writing both fiction and non-fiction, using my art maps as prompts. This simple paragraph is my one-year celebration post!
Who or what are you celebrating this month?
I was inspired to create …
I’m always grateful when people give me a new perspective on things.
Do you ever feel a tension between the idea of setting goals and a slower, more holistic approach? Recently, the idea of setting goals has me feeling out of sorts - I feel by setting goals I have to be productive all the time. I’m sort of stepping away from the whole “constant productivity” vibe. But, what’s the alternative?
Along came Morgan, with her post on Dart Boards and Tree Rings and suddenly I realised there ARE other ways to think about this. As with most things in life, we can move along a continuum at any given time. Moving between having focussed, precise goals that require us to put in concerted effort, possibly to meet a deadline or work within a timescale - Morgan’s Dart Board metaphor, and a place where we’re managing our capacity with what we have, building on and valuing our lived experiences, growing slowly, quietly and gradually - her Tree Rings metaphor.
I’m pretty much in the Tree Ring space at the moment, but I do occasionally need to be in the Dart Board mindset to get smaller projects up and running.
To and fro, back and forth between the two spaces. It doesn’t have to be ‘either or’ or be fixed as one type forever.
As it happens, her piece really resonated with me and I was inspired to create this piece of digital art to capture the idea for myself.
“Remember that no matter what the rest of the world sees or knows about you, there is a rich story unfolding beneath the surface. And, just as the tree rings continue to form year after year, so will you”.
What rich story is unfolding from your tree rings?
Participating in 2024 postcards are:
Part of adopting a Growth Mindset
Hello, Debs. Nice to meet you through Safar's Postcard series. I love this idea of celebrating yourself and something in real life along with the fellow Substacker.
Congratulations on 1 year! I am also celebrating my first year on Substack next week. We are contemporaries! Was it as fast a year for you as for me?
P.S. - Substack seems to have more than one profile for me, and the one linked in your post is a dud that I don't know how to get rid of. My actual, active page is here: https://tarapenry.substack.com/.
I enjoyed reading this Debs, you seem to have found a new energy - how wonderful..!
I need to turn on ‘falling in love with life’ mode… I’m utterly uninspired here - now where’s that switch? X