Hey Cohort 2 humans and newbies just dipping your toes in 👋 Quick share to celebrate a tiny-but-mighty win... I put my **Brave Britches** on this week and picked up the actual phone 📞 (yes, the scary one) to ring the manager of my local Community House about running mosaic workshops there. The kind of dream that's been quietly living in my "one day when I'm braver" pile for *years*, while my ADHD brain helpfully offered 47 reasons not to. Coffee meeting locked in for next week. 🎉 Now here's the bit I want to share with you... This isn't a launch. It's not a grand opening. It's just a market test. A bite-sized first nibble of something my Week 5 Ikigai work helped me see is part of *why I'm here*: turning discarded pieces into something beautiful, with people, for community. The big dream? A mosaic legacy. The actual action this week? One phone call. One coffee. That's the whole game, isn't it? We don't get to the dream by *doing* the dream. We get there by doing the next 10-minute thing that scares us just a wee bit. So, my lovely lot: **what's your Brave Britches phone call this week?** The thing that's been sitting in your "one day" pile, quietly waiting? Pop it in the comments. I'll cheer you on. 💪🎨 Debz x

Day 2 Done! Underneath the multitude of masks that I've been wearing, the mask that I've used the most just recently is the empathetic-to-a-fault absorber of everyone else's emotions. I'm exhausted and shattered - I'm as flat as a pancake with no more get up and go. I guess this is what being burnt out feels like! What I loved as a kid (before the masks): was roaming the farm, undertaking different adventures - I had freedom; nobody controlled me. I had laughter and a voice; nobody silenced me. Friction audit complete and the next step I have to take is to locate one email that has the final edits in it - a quick 2 minute job in theory! Just when I didn't think we could go too much deeper - I'm rocked by another revelation! Roll on day 3 (if I get out of jury deliberations!).