I’m currently wrapping up my largest custom card order to date. Add to that a few more custom card orders that trickled in over the weekend. Some of them involve writing poems and paper cut illustrations. I’m so excited and happy to be creating all of these by hand, but I’m not gonna lie, it’s a lot of energy and effort. My hope is that the recipient feels this love and intention when they hold my card in their hand.

Five years ago when I shared my big dreams with my friend Brian, I told him one day I’d love to have my cards in stores. “You can even probably make custom cards for people, and they’ll place orders with you for Valentine’s Day and birthdays,” he suggested. I just laughed, sipped my coffee, and stared off into the distance entertaining that wonderful thought.

I am now aware that this has all come true. I tell myself all the time, “REMEMBER YOUR FUTURE.” Instead of fixating on the past, where old hard-wired feelings program the body into the familiar past, I am consciously creating my future. Feeling into how it would feel to have my cards in shops, feeling how it would feel to hold my published book in my hands, and feeling the overwhelming gratitude of the generous present moment where I have already received everything I’ve wanted even before it’s happened.

Try it. Feel those positive, loving emotions- feel as though you’ve gotten the dream job, feel as though your project has come to fruition, feel as though you can run and ride without pain after your ankle surgery, feel as though you’ve lost the weight and your body feels strong and resilient. When your mind wanders back to the familiar past of pain, negativity and lack, woo it back into the generous present moment.

If we can master our thoughts and feelings, we can, in essence design our future.

Now back to making cards.