Dear Creativity,

It almost feels like you’ve been in two places at once. Here with me in my home office/creative studio, tuning into Speak & Write on my screen… and in San Diego, where Lisa Nichols and her team of speakers have been dropping golden nuggets of wisdom for the past two days.

Last year, I was fortunate enough to attend in person. The energy, the buzz in the hallways, the inspiration spilling out around every corner — it was electrifying. This year, hunkered down at my desk, I wasn’t sure if I’d feel that same sense of connection.

But you made sure of it. You showed up in every story, every teaching, every chat box comment — reminding me that your presence isn’t limited by geography.

As I flipped through pages of “mic-drop” notes, I kept searching for the one that felt most like you. Eventually, I realized: you were in all of them. Because you’re always in the stories. The spark is in the yes. The magic is in the moment we choose conviction over convenience.

Lisa said it best: “Live in your conviction over your convenience.”

Bringing ideas to life is rarely convenient — it’s messy, uncomfortable, even exhausting at times. But when we lean into you, when we invest in our partnership, when we’re willing to set convenience aside for conviction, something shifts. The next tiny step appears. The pieces begin to fall into place.

So now I’m sitting with this, Creativity…
​What might happen if we chose conviction over convenience more often? What ideas could finally take flight if we trusted you enough to take the next tiny step?

Innovatively yours,
Dr. Abigail