Hey CreativeMornings: What is something you know now, but wish you had realized sooner?

Hey CreativeMornings! is our experimental project for swapping recommendations and know-how with you, our community. Every other week we’ve been sharing a question in our Weekly Highlights newsletter and here on the CreativeMornings blog, and inviting you to email us with your answer. Our CreativeMornings HQ team then combs through your responses and compiles our findings in the form of a recap blog post.

So far we’ve delved into our favorite podcast episodes, the best advice we’ve ever received, our most-anticipated newsletters, the secrets to powerful email signatures, and our favorite books to re-read and give as gifts. We’re back this week with a new question for you!

This week’s question

This week we’re calling on you to get introspective and tell us something that you know now, but wish you had realized sooner. Share, in three sentences or less, what this formative realization was, how it could have served you in the past, and how you expect to apply it to your life in the future.

To help you find your way into this question, consider these prompts:

• Looking back at a past self — whether from a year ago or a decade ago or beyond — what advice would you give that person?
• What’s a hard-won piece of wisdom that you’d like to pass on to someone else, to possibly make their path easier?
• What are habits, techniques, creative pursuits, decision-making processes, or anything else that have become important to you, and why?
• Is there a story or moment that accompanies your realization?
• Why is this realization important to you? Whether small or large, how has it changed your life?

How to participate

To share your answer, simply paste this week’s question into the subject line, write your answer in the body of the email and send it to creativemornings@hey.com. We may select your answer to feature in our recap post, publishing next week. You can go ahead and email us now! The cut-off date for submissions is Monday, April 19, 2021.

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