PRESENCE IS THE PREREQUISITE

I love this “extremely non-comprehensive list of ways to increase your surface area for luck and magic and synchronicities and signs,” from Holisticism.

Make something with your hands without multitasking. I like to call these “quiet thought hobbies.” Cook dinner slowly. Write a letter to your international bestie. Arrange flowers. You can’t do magic while you’re multitasking — presence is the prerequisite.

And…

“Lying to yourself about your wants is a great way to sever the inner connection to your intuitive self. Get the pizza. Go with your instinct. Trust yourself, see what happens. Maybe on your walk to the pizza shop you’ll notice a picture in the main window of a gallery; you take a picture to reverse image search and find that the artist is living, and actually resides on the street next to yours, and has an email on their website, and you reach out to do a studio visit and BOOM, they become your creative mentor. You never know which one door will open the next. Maybe your intuition knows something your practical mind doesn’t.”

There is a time and place for email lists and DNS settings and websites, but before all of that is the very human element of existence, and you’d be wise to prioritize that before everything else.

Without the energy of life there’s no art, and therefore no need for landing pages and press kits.