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As John Lennon famously said, "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

After more than a decade of posting consistently on this blog, I’ve been half-assing it for several years now.

I’m having a little love affair with Substack these days, and maybe I’ll start posting regularly here again…or not. We’ll see.

There’s been a lot of life happening to me in the past 6 years or so. Global pandemics notwithstanding, my dad died, one of my best friends died, a close childhood friend died, I had a pretty significant collapse of my mental health (recovering now!), and recently I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder (Sjögren's Syndrome if you care to Google it). So you know—life. Oh, and F%$# cancer.

On the upside (there’s always an upside), I’m back teaching at the college part-time, our business is scaling up again after 2 , 3, 4 or so pivots (thanks, COVID), I’m still happily married to my favourite person, and my musical life has never been more exciting (singing with the choir and working on an album with a very talented friend).

So hey, balance, amiright?

So here I am. Sitting here on a cold Sunday morning in the Canadian Capital, heating pad and coffee warming me, thinking, “Do I really want to do this blogging thing again?” But, as my mom has always said, “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.” So here I am.

Maybe this will be my once-a-week, Sunday morning brain dump of all the things I’ve been musing on lately. I am “The Muse,” after all (at least according to my husband). Maybe it’ll be an on-again-off-again kind of thing. We’ll see. I’m not going to put too much pressure on myself either way. I do know that it’s going to be different than what I was doing here before:

More Real, More Raw

If there’s anything I’ve learned in my 55 years on this planet, it’s that hiding who you really are because you’re afraid of what others will think is bullshit. I always thought that because I was a business owner and a professor, I had to conduct myself in a certain fashion at all times. Sure, being a professional is necessary in certain situations, but being someone you’re not all the time is not only insincere, it’s HARD. Since I’ve started to be myself everywhere, I’ve realized that people don’t really care that much anyway. So I’m just gonna be me now. If you don’t like it, the door is thataway.

Less Shameless Self-Promotion

One of the most popular posts I ever had on this blog was a post I wrote a million years ago about the Art of Shameless Self-Promotion. You can go find it if you want. I’m not going to link it here because I’m tired of Shameless Self-Promotion. I’m probably going to break all the rules I’ve spent so much time touting to others in the past 20 years. I’m not going to cross-promote this anywhere; I’m just gonna hang it out here on Substack, and if people drop by, that’s great. If they never see it, oh well. Marketers ruin everything anyway.

More Intention

If the past few years of my life have taught me anything, it’s that life is FAR too short to do anything but be intentional. With time. With money. With relationships. With creativity. Being present in my life is my priority now. And that means more living in the moment. More taking joy in small pleasures. More doing what I want, when I want to (even if that is simply taking a nap).

So there you have it. I guess maybe you can call this SuzeMuse 2.0. I’m going to talk about stuff like this, but I’m also still going to talk tech and trends and yes, AI. Maybe I’ll see you Sundays. Maybe I’ll see you more.

Come along for the ride, won’t you?

xo
Suze.