I have confidently explained that I’ve never experienced Seasonal Affective Disorder before. I can now tell you with that same confidence, this is not true. What’s more probable is that I’ve never been so in tune with myself to notice just how much S.A.D. is impacting me.

If you will, allow me the space to be fully Candi (translated: fully nerd) with you for this post. :)
If you didn’t know, I am a musician. Since the age of two I have been singing, and believe it or not, a few short years after that I started regularly making money with my voice. Music has always been an important part of my life and will continue to be, even if it isn’t something I do as a main career focus anymore. The power of music is a universally accepted force. Humans are drawn to and affected by music in fascinating, almost magical ways. 

I nearly miss it in my hurry to find the Michelangelo exhibition. Brisk steps through the ornate hallway of European paintings are fixed on the destination and I almost keep my gaze forward-only. But a force greater than me, something so strong I nearly feel its fingers on my shoulder, pulls me leftward, taking control of my eyes and causing me to stop dead in my tracks.

This is for my people who get hung up on the word “design” because it’s so often heard in the context of interiors or spatial layouts. The word is so much broader— and better— than that.

I expect to have some questions or arguments to this post, and I am great with that. I love conversation about ideas where I can hear and learn from other perspectives. But today I’m going to give you mine and tell you why I think it’s a good approach for your own life.

An appropriate subtitle might be How to dodge delegation.
I have always been terrible when it comes to delegation, meaning I didn’t do it for a long time. For people who struggle to hand things off, there can be many roots. Lack of trust is a big one, which often means keeping tight reins because “no one will do it as well as I will.” Fear of failure is another root, which looks like doing everything yourself because “failure is not an option.”