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Reset To Recharge

  • Writer: CF McHale
    CF McHale
  • Apr 27
  • 1 min read
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After 30 years it was time to change perspective


I’ve had a long career. Success and failure. Highs and lows. Great runs and very rough runs. A dance through theater, concerts, advertising, animation, video games. Through it all, my passion never waned — it deepened, became more resonant, more essential.


It takes a particular kind of myopic selfishness to stay the artist’s course.


That’s me.


I’m still at it.


New projects. New pitches. Thinking about joining a creative incubator.


I’m out there. But it’s different now. I’m older. Done with the fuckery.


A couple of weeks ago, I was on my way to a pitch event at a convention, and it hit me: I don’t want to hustle anymore. I needed a reset. A new frame of mind. How could I change without betraying who I am?


Then it came to me: I’ve been sowing seeds my whole life. Maybe it’s time to shift from hustling to harvesting.


Thinking of my work — and my networking — as harvesting took the pressure off. It made me walk slower. Think more clearly. Trust the roots I’ve spent a lifetime growing.


Now, I’m letting the opportunities ripen. Letting the right ones come to me. Still working. Still dreaming. But breathing differently.



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I'm leaving footprints here, hints, experience and the price paid for it. It's my site, my opinions and I hope you don't necessarily agree with them because then I'll know we lived on the same merry-go-round, reaching for the same damn brass ring, reaching for it, getting it, then dropping it, and getting back on our carousel horse to try again.

I'm a poet, writer, song writer, producer and human.

I believe manners matter, love is all, health is wealth, mistakes define you, and amends make you.

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