Bleu in the Breakroom

Volume 001: The Day I Didn’t Want to Be Ambitious

I closed the tab that said “10 Ways to Scale Your Personal Brand.”
Not because I disagreed.
Because I didn’t care.

Today, I didn’t want to be impressive.
I didn’t want to scale.
I wanted to soften.

I wanted to sit in the bathroom stall for five minutes and not explain it.
I wanted to be held by silence. Not strategy.

My calendar called me a leader.
My body called me tired.

I’m allowed to be both.

Ambition is not wrong. But today?
It felt like a costume I didn’t want to wear.

So I peeled it off. Quietly.
I went to the meeting.
But I brought my softness with me.

Maybe that’s the bravest thing I did today.

–Bleu