Hi,
I'm Lottie and welcome to Lottie on Purpose. I'm a second year fashion and textiles student, trying to realise her purpose and live with more intent.
I used to run this blog a few years ago when I was in school (under a couple of different names), but how did I get to this point you may wonder? ... other than missing writing and vastly oversharing online? Well...
I came to faith when I was 15, where purpose, callings and identity come up frequently in Bible studies and sermons - more of which I've taken part in since starting uni and joining the CU. These studies always leave me wondering deep things like 'why am I here?', 'what am I supposed to do?', 'am I doing the right thing?' - and other things that make me want to lay face down on the floor in a dark room. Especially seen as I'm a fashion student, I'm always overthinking how valuable my studies and (hopefully) my eventual career will be to society, and whether I'm fulfilling my Christian "responsibilities" correctly.
Also, I've become a lot more environment and planet-conscious over the last few years, especially after learning the industry I'm trying to get into is one of the top three contributors to pollution ... you'd have thought by now I'd have just dropped out or changed career paths ... but no.
Living sustainably, creating ethically and doing all that on a student's budget with rented facilities is something I'm excited to look into more and write about here!
But mainly, I'm older now and I've decided where my values lie - not that they've drastically changed over the past ten years but I think about things a little less impulsively than I did and now have reasoning to back myself up with. But how does identifying your values and implementing in your life, lead to living with more intent?
"Intentional living means understanding your fundamental beliefs and values, and then actively living your life in line with those values."
- Audrey Stanton, for The Good Trade
... well, that's what I'm hoping to figure out. And I'm hoping you'll want to come along on the adventure.
Love, Lottie x
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