Welcoming What Comes
 
 

I quit my job!

Maybe forever. August 7th was my last day working at a corporate job. I can’t name any specific reason why I quit, there was just a general sense of not being aligned with my purpose. 

I’ve done some math and creative budgeting and bought myself a year off with no income. I actually wrote myself a permission slip that reads:
 

“Jason is excused from earning any income for 12 months so he can focus on his creative expression.

—Jason Hanson”
 

It’s TERRIFYING and EXCITING. The more breathing I do, the more excited I get. 

I’m making room for only four things in my gap year. 

  1. Coaching

  2. Writing

  3. Painting

  4. Co-founding the type of company that I want to work at
 

Coaching IS in my “Zone of Genius”, as my mentor Gay Hendricks calls it. Of all the activities I’ve done in my life, transformational coaching has the most significant impact on people’s lives. I consistently get feedback about the results clients get after working/playing with me. If you’re interested in exploring coaching with me, schedule a free coaching sesh.
 

Some of you know that I wrote a 600-page book last year that I’ve been reluctant to publish. I’m blocked on taking the next step. I logically know what to do next, and emotionally I have a blocker to letting this creation of mine be fully birthed. I have a year to explore what that book most wants to be, and I think painting for a while is the key to that unblocking More about my writing is on my blog.
 

OMGodess! I’m painting again. Painting in my life has been an on-again-off-again relationship. I’ve been blocked for the better part of 10 years, and before that, blocked for nine years on making art. And, I’m in the deep end of painting again. I’m painting just for myself. Since I was about age four, I’ve had a recurring dream that desperately wants to come out. I’m willing to let this artistic expression flow through me. My new @jasonhansonart IG feed has updates on the regs about the art coming through me.

Self portrait. Oil on board. 12 x 12 inches.

Keep breathing,


—Jason

he, him, his

@iamjasonhanson

jasonhanson.com