Navigating Creative Gravity, Ep. 5: Orbital Re-entry - Giving Up Control Without Losing Vision

If you’ve ever handed over a design project and then hovered like a satellite waiting to intercept the first draft…

Congrats, you’ve experienced re-entry anxiety.

Letting go is hard.

Especially when the vision is yours, the expectations are high, and your Figma file has more comments than layers.

But here’s the thing:

Control and clarity are not the same.

And micromanagement is not mentorship.

The more I tried to steer every pixel, the more I slowed things down.

The team felt second-guessed. I felt overextended. And the work… well, it usually landed with a thud instead of a touchdown.

So I learned to reframe:

🛰️ Share the goal, not just the task

🛰️ Offer direction, not dictation

🛰️ Trust your team enough to get it “not my way”, but still the right way

You’re not abandoning the ship.

You’re just stepping out of the cockpit long enough to let someone else fly.

And if your team knows the mission, the values, and the why,

they’ll surprise you. In a good way. Read this on LinkedIn