Creating from Joy
What you want may be getting in your way.
Maybe you want to be an author. Or have a bigger audience for your business. Maybe you want more time and resources. Or more focus and discipline.
Creating from a place of Wanting puts you in a state of lack. You're constantly focused on what you don't have. Where you're not.
You may want beautiful, honorable things. But living in a state of Wanting drains your energy. It’s exhausting to not have or be enough. It’s frustrating to always want to be there instead of here.
Goals are great. Unless focusing on them pulls your attention away from where you are - from the interesting and meaningful work that is right in front of you.
What you want vs. Who you are
Instead of focusing on what you want, focus on who you are.
Who are you? What is your genius? What is your unique superpower that is yours to share with the world?
When you are in touch with your unique gift that you are here to give, the comparisons fade away. Because no one else is you, with your unique gift. You get swept up in the joy of being in your Zone of Genius. The focus on where you "should" be turns to a focus on "How great is it that I get to do this?!"
You think you want success. But really, you want the feeling of being fully alive. And that comes from being tapped into the thing that is yours to do.
There is a joy that comes from living in your genius. Living from that place becomes its own reward. You stop needing it to look a certain way - you’re happy if you’re speaking to a thousand people from a stage, or working with one client. You even find the joy in emails, errands and excel sheets. Because it’s all supporting your genius.
The Process
When you know your unique gift, then your focus turns to the process of giving that gift. Because all things are created through process.
You treat your gift and your work like a craft. You fall in love with all the little steps. You enjoy putting in the reps because this is your thing. You find pride in doing it well, in getting better and better at it.
Many people are in love with their goal - writing a book or building an audience or running a marathon. But most don't ever come close to reaching their goal because focusing on the goal doesn't create the process. But focusing on the process - and falling in love with it - naturally creates the goal.
There’s a paradox here - overly focusing on the goal makes it impossible to create the goal.
Vision boards and goal setting is great - but only if it leads us to focus on the process.
Another way of saying this: focus on Be Here Goals, not Get There Goals.
Instead of “I want to be a published author,” focus on “I am building my thought leadership by writing and sharing my ideas every morning.”
Instead of “I want 5 new clients,” focus on “I powerfully connect with others and share my genius with one person each day.”
What would it look like for you to fall in love with the process? What if you weren't overly focused on the end goal but on being in your Zone of Genius? How can you throw yourself into your craft every day?
Where Focus Goes, Energy Flows
Focusing on what you want may be preventing you from creating it. Turn your focus away from wanting, from wishing you were there and not here. Turn your focus to the joy of giving your gift.
What is your unique genius? Your gift to give to the world?
What morning routine/ritual would help you turn your focus to the joy of your craft?
What would it take to fall in love with the process instead of the goal?
Dear friend,
May you be so tapped into your genius that you no longer focus on what you thought you lacked. May you no longer find yourself disheartened by goals but enlivened by your craft. May you not just be in love with a vision but also madly in love with the process. May you find yourself waking up thinking, "Wow, I get to do this. And this is what I was made to do."
