Snowflakes drift by the window. Tiny birds eat seeds from the feeder. A beautiful evergreen stands erect and dignified, collecting snowflakes and tiny birds on and within its branches. Our Christmas tree has a new purpose after decorating our house with pine odor and beauty during the holidays.
Instead of throwing this graceful entity to the curb, we set it up on the edge of our property, recycling it for nature’s purposes until it turns brown from warming spring temperatures. Allowing it to breathe more life with a new meaning feels so right.
As a writer, I don’t often recycle old written work, but sometimes, on rushed or non-inspirational days, I look through my 2008 – 2025 blog under the monthly categories to find some wisdom to recycle. Writing all the time can produce monochromatic periods like today’s all-white landscape void of color and words like a blank slate.
If you’ve been an entrepreneur for a while, you most likely recycle business agreements for new customers, reuse press releases, and repost social media. It doesn’t make you a fraud or lazy, but rather a wise one to recycle a good piece you spent time creating before.
Today’s Wednesday Wisdom will hopefully encourage you to look back at some marketing pieces, social media posts, written works of art, and communication documents in this new year and edit or reframe them for the latest use. Just like the winter weather sometimes keeps us inside and idle, so does our creative mind when it isn’t inspired.
It’s okay to give yourself a break and repurpose and recycle former pieces of beauty like our tree, for new purposes. No one knows if you rework something from before for a new day.
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