Have you ever had the urge to “rebrand” your life? Or is that just me? Quite frequently, I get super inspired by all the ever-changing aesthetics and trends. There are countless new ones every day and I love them ALL!

One thing about me: I love everything. Every job. Every place. Every genre of music. Every food. You name it, I probably love it.

But when I see all these new aesthetics, I start wondering… What is me? What’s my “brand”?

So, I go back to the drawing board (a.k.a. Pinterest) and start making lists.

The other night, flying home from a work event, I found myself doing it again. Laptop open. New note titled “Rebrand” (I have about a million of these already).

I began listing colors, passions, etc. But when I wrote “What influences me?” I stopped.

“What does influence me?”

If I’m honest… it’s the “5–9 before my 9–5” girl. The “It girl.” The “clean girl.” The ones who seem to have it all together and appear to have mastered the perfect work-life balance, and post-grad routines.

“I want that.” I often think. “I need to start doing that too.” Or “let me add this to my already mile long list.”

It’s quite exhausting. Trying to keep up, or better yet, stay on top of or ahead of the trends.

But what would we be influenced by without influencers?

Would we be influenced by the Word of God? Would we be influenced to be the “Proverbs 31 girl” and not the “it girl?”

Would we be influenced to be more disciplined, devoted, walking in our calling and walking alongside the One who gave it to us?

For me personally, a “rebrand” feels necessary when I start to doubt the call that the Lord has on my life. When I become insecure about who God has made me to be and where He has me.

But here’s the truth: We’re not meant to do it all.

We’re not meant to have every job, visit every place, or live out every aesthetic.

God has given us one divine calling to walk in and the exact amount of time we need to do it.

As John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, “We find God’s will for our life in our limitations.”

We do not have to look at other people’s calling and question our own.

And there is so much freedom in that!

The secret to an unhurried life is to be yoked with Him, be a disciple and apprentice under Him.

To mirror the way He walked through life.

Jesus walked in slowness. He moved in peace, humility, and purpose. If we want to live like Him, we have to slow down enough to match His pace.

When I do slow down, I’m reminded: He’s the reason for it all. The reason I create. The reason I travel. The reason I love people. The reason we are put on this earth. To know Him and to make Him known!

It is all by Him and for Him!

If my “brand” is to honor Him in all I do, then everything else will naturally flow from that.

The world tells us to chase every opportunity, every look, every trend – feeding the hustle mentality that whispers, “I have to keep going or I won’t measure up.”

But the Word calls us to something better: to walk in our calling, at the slow and steady pace of the Good Shepherd.

So maybe a rebrand is not about curating the perfect aesthetic at all.

Maybe it is about re-centering on Jesus, being secure in who He has made us to be, filtering every dream, job, and passion through the question: Does this honor Him?

That is when the true rebrand will come through!

If you’re feeling the pressure to have it all together, to be everywhere, do everything, and keep up with every trend – take a deep breath.

You are not called to do it all. You are called to walk in your calling. You are called to walk beside Jesus. And that is more than enough.

Lord, I give You my creativity, dreams, and desires. I want them all to be for You. Give me a distaste for anything that does not honor You – trends that pull me away, careers that are not for me, aesthetics that are not truly who You have made me to be. Help me be secure in who You have called me to be, and confident in the path You have set before me. Teach me to walk at Your slow, steady pace. I give You everything. Amen.