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Your soul is playing tug of war.

September 4, 2025

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Today’s email is for the creator with a burning vision buried under bills, obligations, and expectations.

The one who feels like a ribbon danglilng from the middle of a rope.

Yanked back and forth in a game of tug of war.

Split between two worlds…

The one you’re forced to navigate. And the one your soul aches to build.

Let me tell you something…

Feeling overwhelmed doesn’t mean you’re broken.

It means your soul's compass still works.

Most people don’t feel torn. They just go with the flow.

They’ve surrendered.

They’ve lost the signal.

They’ve traded their soul’s voice for society’s approval.

But you haven’t…

You’re still wrestling with the paradox.

You still feel the tension between your creative potential and your day-to-day survival.

You are aware your time here is finite…yet you sense something infinite inside you.

You know there’s more to all of this thing called Life.

You are bound by responsibilities…yet you yearn to be free.

You show up for others. You make it work.

But deep down, you crave space to dream, to build, to create without anyones approval.

You are flawed… yet you feel destined for greatness.

There’s a vision in you. It doesn’t care if you have imposter syndrome. It just wants to be born.

The world has no manual for all these feelings.

No classes in high school truly teach us how to navigate our creative soul.

Modern society is structured like a funnel…narrowing you down into a consumer, a performer, a cog in some machine.

That system rewards survival, not significance.

It trades meaning for metrics.

Depth for data.

But your spirit remembers a different truth.

Birds fly. Trees grow.

Humans become.

And if there’s something inside you that refuses to die quietly, that’s your gift.

So what do you do when everything is pulling you away from the work that matters?

You come home.

You unplug from the noise.

You say no to the things that shrink you.

You claim five minutes (even if that’s all you can get) to return to the thing that sets your spirit on fire.

Because they tell us creation is a luxury.

It’s not.

It’s your lifeline.

You weren’t put here to just survive in this world.

You were built to reimagine it.

So breathe.

Shake the dust off your dream.

And make something today.

A sentence. A sketch.

A bold little step in the direction of your purpose.

You don’t have to finish the journey today.

But you do have to walk it.

One foot in front of the other.

One small idea at a time.

Your vision needs you.

Right now.

Stay creative,

Way Walker

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