Kara Stokes Coach
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When was the last time you consciously went outdoors?
I don’t mean walking between your front door and your car, or walking to the train station.
When did you last decide to go outside for the sake of being outside?
Nature is the best pattern interrupter because it’s ever-changing.
While we’re stuck in the same daily habits, nature’s shifting the way it moves and works. There’s always something new to see outside.
Deliberately choosing to be outdoors is one of the best ways to reduce stress, refresh your perspective and inspire beautiful ideas. (It’s my go-to hack for when the words won’t flow onto the page.)
We need greenery around us to flourish as much as plants need sun and water.
Feed your soul today. Go outside. Close your eyes. Soften your shoulders. Exhale slowly to release all the s**t that’s bugging you this week.
Be still in this moment to notice how much the world has changed around you.
10/02/2026
Nobody talks about how cutting parts from a book hurts.
There’s a silent grief in making something better by making it smaller. Removing 2000 beautiful words because, while they sound delightful, they’re not adding to the core message.
I recently sliced 14,723 words from my client’s book.
Most of them were written by me.
We didn’t cut them because they were bad (I’d be out of work then!). We removed them because we decided to change direction with the format. They didn’t belong in this book.
In my editing blitz, I threw the discarded pages into a doc.
We’re both hoping it’ll become its own book one day.
The cull was painful. A quiet sting of sacrifice. The strange holiness of letting go on purpose.
And I’ll do it again.
Because I’m not here to hoard every word I’ve ever loved. I’m here to write books precise enough to matter.
Hands up if you’ve ever had to scrap a sentence you adored 🖐️
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