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Listen to this episode: “Detaching from outcomes.”
I recorded this episode over a month ago but didn’t feel like posting it.
So I’ve sat on it for the past few weeks and am OK with that.
I have a lot going on in the background (including moving to Europe with my whole family), but it has more to do with the direction I want to take this project.
More on that in a moment.
But in this episode, I discuss learning not to try to control the outcome when it comes to creativity.
This is a huge lesson (like all of the things I talk about here) that I am learning. If you have tips, send them my way.
I’ve been learning lately that to get to powerful creativity, there exists an amount of surrender.
Surrendering what other people think.
Surrendering whether people pay attention.
Surrendering our self-criticism and comparison.
And then focusing on uncovering the message we seek to share in our creation.
I am very outcome-driven, which works well in some areas, such as business, but often, this limits me when I am exploring my creativity.
It’s been a journey of allowing things to unfold as they will. My job is to keep showing up and learning.
And to tell stories.
Which is what I want to get back to on this podcast.
I started the podcast to share some personal stories that could give you insight into human experience.
But along the way, I veered a little more prescriptive than I had intended.
It’s fine. It’s part of the journey.
I’ve learned that these snaking paths and diversions are part of the process, but I look forward to focusing on telling the stories I came here to tell.
Like stories about why I changed my name or what it was like to travel to Latvia to reconnect with family roots.
Those are the episodes I like recording the best and the ones that people listen to most.
So that’s what I will do more of - and maybe other stuff like try having guests.
Who knows?
Telling stories is a way of being creative and sharing insight without clinging too tightly to an outcome or a specific message I want people to receive.
People interpret things as they will, and that’s the beauty of stories: there’s room for it all.
That’s all I’ve got to write today. Listen to the episode - I go deeper.
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Listen to this episode: “Detaching from outcomes.”
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