Multipassionate? When you want to do ALL THE THINGS

If you’re like us, you want to do ALL-THE-THINGS ALL-THE-TIME

Find out what projects you should prioritise, and how to navigate the chaos of open-ended projects. Get some insights into setting non-negotiable goals for the next six months and reverse engineering your way to success.

We think it's more important to focus on projects that really light your fire, rather than just chasing the cash. We share some real-life stories and practical tips for figuring out if a project's feasible and staying true to yourself.

Dive into the importance of understanding your strengths and weaknesses when collaborating, and the guts it takes to switch gears or let go of projects that aren't doing it for you anymore.

Lastly, get into the power of following your gut and embracing the journey, even when things feel a bit iffy. The hosts are all about inspiring you to back yourself and go after what you really want, knowing that the universe will have your back.

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Transcript

Stacey: 0:01

I really don't want to just continue on because it's not fulfilling my desires. Maybe what I can do is I can begin to start to build a bridge towards moving. Towards this other concept that I have

Ané: 0:13

make a non negotiable of okay, what do we really want to achieve in the next six months? And then reverse engineer from there. Hello everyone and welcome to Trusting the Universe and Shit. Another episode here, episode 39. Today, obviously it was Stacey.

Stacey: 0:31

Yes. Hi.

Ané: 0:33

Today we are going to talk about when to know when how to execute or when to execute a project because Stacey, if anything, like Stacey and I, we love a project. We love to work on many things at once. We think it's to do with our astrology and also our human design, we love to blame it on that. But yeah, so we just, if you're ever feeling like you have a lot of projects you want to execute or you're feeling a little bit like, oh my gosh, I don't know which was where then this episode is going to be really, really

Stacey: 1:11

Yep. You know when you're multi-passionate and some days you just think. I will put on my to-do list stuff enough for three months worth. Oh four and. I think I can achieve it in one month. And I do this all the time. Cause I get so excited about things and I want to do this and I want to do this and I want to do so many things. And I think today we're going to be talking about how to know which projects that you should really be focusing in on now and how to prioritize and how to decide whether or not you should move ahead with that said project or not.

Ané: 1:43

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think just like people who are creative tend to be a little bit more chaotic side when there are so many things we want to do. You know, the ones that like to invent new things and just try new things. I think, yeah we tend to go into projects, which is really fab. But yeah, I mean, we've mentioned that we want to do merch and we want to do this and that for the podcast. So there's always new ideas. And I think that is. Definitely a superpower. Like don't ever feel like you are just too much or you're being unrealistic. You know, like, oh, stop being so unrealistic. Like it is a superpower to have this many ideas and be creative. And I know there's many, many people who are trying to be more creative and trying to fall into like, I just wish I had some, Like a mind that just will make up ideas. So yeah I think, you know, when it comes to figuring out what projects to do next or how to do it, well, I, if you're anything like us, I definitely have a lot of open ended projects, which is a bit chaotic, but I just tend to, what I like to do is I look into the next six months of. work and clients and collabs and stuff. And yeah, just kind of make a non negotiable of like, okay, what do we really want to achieve in the next six months? And then kind of reverse engineer from there. So being like, okay, well to move the needle a little bit forward with this particular goal or, you know, result, then it's time to really finish up this project or start this new, you know, process or whatever. And that goes to get with my clients and also with myself. Whether or not I always, you know, I'm just being full transparent. I mean, I don't always end up going full steam ahead with it all and I'll get bored or I will end up getting excited about a new one, but I just think it's a really good time to, yeah, just reevaluate a little bit of what is Transcribed The things that you're doing that may not be a needle moving forward action. What about You Stace?

Stacey: 3:53

You know, what's not realistic. Is that we're on a floating rock in space and we're spinning at hundreds of kilometers an hour. And. It doesn't feel like we're moving at all. But we are moving. And I think, you know, when people will say that we need to be. More realistic. In this. Huge universe where physical matter, our consciousnesses inside a physical body. I just think what that that's not realistic. So why should we have to be realistic? Quote unquote realistic. And yeah, that's just what I had is you talking about what projects that are we to do that we feel are realistic. And so, okay. So for me, when it comes to discerning which projects I should be putting all my time and energy in one is to see how long do we think that this is actually going to take? So over the course of my career, I've had a lot of people ask me to do things that I had no skillsets in. Like once I had to do a project where somebody asked me, can you do 3d modeling? Modeling of these buildings down at the Wharf. And I was like, sure, I can do that. And I learnt how to use Google SketchUp, which is 3d modeling program to do this didn't should I have done that? Absolutely not. That is not a skillset that I wanted to. I didn't have the desire for it and didn't know how to do it. Taught myself. Sure. I can, but I didn't have the desire for it. So you one, you've got to ask yourself, do I have the desire for this? Do I really need to be learning this right now. I you just allowing your ideas to kind of run along and you're just following them Willy nilly and, and thinking to yourself, is this getting me closer to my goal? Am I moving towards a specific point or am I just following any old pathway? So that's one, one thing. Also. Not always taking on a job because someone said, can you do this for me? And you say, sure, I could figure that out. I could learn it because I need the paycheck. But often what it's going to end up doing is it's going to take you away from the things that you probably should be doing to move your business forward. And you think that it's going to be good because you're getting a paycheck in the short term, but in the long term, it's really not going to be helping your business because you're not going to be creating that freebie. You're not going to be creating those products and services to sell. And you're going to have a skill that potentially you may not need again. And. You know, for this one-off project.

Ané: 6:18

Absolutely. I love that you brought that up because it's so funny that you mentioned that because I remember I called up a friend a while ago and there was this random new project that came into my existence and not to not give too much detail, but I was like, I don't know if I want to do this. Like, cause I love that you were like, okay, well, you've got to ask yourself that this is something that is going to help you in the longterm. But sometimes we don't know, right? Like, am I going to use that? I don't know. And so it was really good for her to just reflect back to me about, am I doing this because of the potential money that can come from this, or am I doing this because it's actually like burning a little bit of a fire within me and I can really just get really excited about this. And it can be really like, it can stretch the edge a little bit for me to just my skillsets and knowledge. And I think that's a really good way because she always said that like, if you're doing projects that are. deeply desirable, and it's deeply satisfying and fulfilling, the money will follow, like period. Like, the money will follow whether it's now or later, it doesn't matter. But that was a really really good moment to get that reflection back, because Sometimes, especially if you do collabs, there are a lot of people who will promise you the world, promise you millions, gazillions, and it gets a little bit enticing. You're like, okay, maybe I do do that. And I just, yeah, if with her experience and with many, many people's stories, I just know that that's actually not beneficial. You cannot start a collab or project to get the end goal. That's purely money. Like, what are you doing? That's not really. The point of fulfillment, you know, it's got nothing to do with that. Of course, if you want to desire to have a better, you know, cash flow, of course, like that's not nothing cynical in that, but you got to be discerned about whether or not it is coming from a place of like, this is going to fulfill me in the longterm. Hmm.

Stacey: 8:21

You can not just have money as your angle because you'll when you actually break that down and you look back and you say to yourself, how do I get there? You're going to have nothing. There's going to be no steps for you to reach that goal. Really. You have to follow your desires and it's going to get hard too. So it's going to get hard. Two. Work through all of the problems and the challenges that are going to come with any project. So any project is going to come with sticky. Problem solving situations that you're going to have to work through. And if you're not really in there, because you're excited about what you're doing, there's nothing that's going to pull you through all of the hard times that you will go through. So you really have to have that desire to get you through. When it, when it does get hard.

Ané: 9:09

Fully, fully. I mean, this is so cliche and we've heard it a gazillion times, but it's really not about the destination. It is the journey. It is the trial and error. It is the challenges that come with it. It is the excitement. It is the nervousness that comes with it. It's all of that that really makes a project fun and rewarding. Kind of lasting as well whether it's like, you know, for short term gain or long term thing, it doesn't really matter. It's still about that journey. And yeah, I just love that you mentioned about like, you really cannot just think about the money aspect of it because it's not the thing that's going to really give you that accomplishment feeling.

Stacey: 9:48

because what will happen is you get the money, right? You spend the money and you look back and you say to yourself, What have I got to show for all that work I put in and you will look back and you, you I'm speaking from personal experience here. You look back and you say to yourself, What do I have to show for all that life force energy that I put in all the days I spent, or me getting older. What do I have to show for all that time and energy I spent in. If it's not, I gain the experience that I needed. If you don't have that, if you don't think to yourself, I gain the skills that I needed. And it's not getting you to where you want to get. It feels so depleting because you just look back and you go. That was such a waste for me of my life force in my life force energy, because I haven't gained any skills. I haven't gained the experience that I needed. And I only did that because I needed the paycheck. And I, you know, I understand we do things because we need the paycheck, but honestly, I've done that too many times now to really realize that it's not worth it in the end for that little short term gain of like a little bit extra money. I much would rather have less money and then have, have some products and stuff too, so that I can sell to my audience. And have something that I can sell over and over and over again.

Ané: 11:06

mm. Yeah, absolutely. And just on that note as well, you know, knowing what project as well, it also is really important to know if you do collaborate with someone on a project, to know your guys differences, you know, what's your strengths and what are your weaknesses. Because 9 times out of 10, when you have You know, the other person's weakness as a strength. You have such a good force to get things really going and have a really beautiful momentum happening. And it kind of is this beautiful unfolding. I mean, I think about me and you, like, we're very similar, but we also have different, like, perspectives sometimes. And it's beautiful. And we get that on reviews all the time. Like how we have Similar thought process, but different perspectives or whatever. And I think that that's just such a way, a cool way to have a project kind of come to life, like you say, like use your life force energy, because that's the thing that magic happens. So yeah, I always have a bit of a strengths and weakness for myself. And then I asked the other partners, well, like, Hey, what, what do you think of strengths and weaknesses? And it's not like an interrogation, like no one is wrong or right. Like, it's not that it's just to understand each other's. experiences and perspectives and standards as well, because there's been many times where I would get in a collab with someone and then, gosh, it just backfires because we just, we didn't have that vulnerable conversation of, Hey, what are you expecting from this? And vice versa. So that it's, it goes smoothly, you know, in the best way possible.

Stacey: 12:36

will also say, if you feel like it's too late, you've gotten into a project you're too deep in it And you think to yourself, oh, I can't really have that conversation. Now. It's too late. It's not too late. You can bring something up. And like you said, it's, it's in the vulnerability because it's hard to bring things like that up. Like, Hey, actually, this isn't going the way I thought it was going to go. And that's totally fine because we can't always know everything that's going to be. That's going to happen at the outset. We can say to ourselves, what skills can I bring to this project? Be honest with yourself and say, yes, I can bring these skills. But sometimes there are just things that crop up in the dynamic of working with somebody in a collaboration that you weren't, you did not know that that was going to be possible because maybe you've known this person as a friend, and then it turns into something else. Or, you know, maybe you've known them from a different part of your life. Collaborating is a very specific way that you're working with someone. So you may find that dynamic shifts in a different way. And if you haven't worked with him in that way, things will come up. It's like, you know, when people move in with someone, their friends and they move in together and then the dynamic is just totally different and they think this is horrible. Why did I do that? We were such good friends have ruined it. And now we live together and it's not good because there are different dynamics at play there and their relationship.

Ané: 13:56

Mm. Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh my god, I've had so many like those before when I've lived with a friend or whatever and it's like, no, never again. So, yeah, I, I'm so glad you brought that up because you're right, you won't know until you're in it, so have compassion for yourself and don't, you know, get an upload in your mind about, oh, I should have known better. It's like, no, no you didn't because, you know, You were never in this scenario with them. So yeah. And, and again, like when it comes to projects, just, I always, I like to spread it out and like, you know, figure out how long this timeline is going to be for the project, but then also be okay with pivoting, be okay with putting one on hold and going to the next and kind of like, intuitively flowing with the projects because if, if you are like enjoying the journey and not trying to get to the destination, I guarantee that you're kind of leading in the path that's least resistant because you are enjoying the journey. So I definitely feel like that is a little bit of a hack that sometimes people are very logical about like, no, but I'm like 80 percent there might as well push on. It's like, yeah, but. Also, maybe it's not time for that to get launched, or maybe it's not time because you are burnt out, like, take, be very yeah, build a relationship with your intuition and body because it will communicate to you what is, what is time to, you know, push and proceed and what is time to just retrieve a little bit and put it on pause.

Stacey: 15:29

like that you said that maybe it's 80% done and you're pushing, pushing, pushing, trying to get that other 20% done. But what I was going to say as well is. Like it's okay to just let something die or to put it on the back burner because potentially, maybe it's not the right time now for you and you have other priorities. So say to yourself, it's okay. That I got to 80% for this for now. And this could look like something like you put all this effort and energy into a launch, into a launching one of your products and nobody bought it, or you didn't really get much feedback and you don't really know what to do now. And you feel like it failed and you feel like. Ah, you feel depleted, but there's always something in what you've done that you can learn from and to utilize for potentially something else. Maybe it looks a little different. Maybe you pivot, like you said, maybe you become adaptable and you turn it into something else. Maybe this, there, there is something there. So don't ever dive into the thought of that was a waste of time. Because there's always something that you can learn from that that will help you in future scenarios. Of maybe what not to do. Maybe the skillset that you learned about growing your boundaries or learning how to communicate with people in a better way. There's always something that you can gain from something. Even if you feel like it was quote unquote, a failure.

Ané: 16:51

I love that you mentioned that and like, it's so good because even if let's say you did choose a project that like, wasn't there for the money, it was just so like intuitively a yes, and you're so excited for it. And then yeah, you do 80 percent of the time of it. It's there's going to be a greater chance of you coming back to it and really being able to like solidify the results and the process of it because you've always done it from a very heartfelt way. You didn't do it from a logical standpoint of trying to get, you know, means ends or whatever. So 100 percent I couldn't agree more. I love that you mentioned that.

Stacey: 17:29

Yeah. I would even think like kids who have been pressured by their parents into becoming a doctor into becoming a lawyer and they have a hundred thousand dollars in debt now because of that course that they've completed. But actually they've, maybe they've realized a year or two in that they really don't want to do it. And it's that sort of a sunk cost fallacy. Idea why you say to yourself? Well, I've spent this much. I spent this much time. I might as well continue. But actually what you're doing, if you're denying your yourself and your desires of, I really don't want to do this anymore. You you're really just, it's going to be so difficult for you to continue on. So just listen to that as well. If you're in a situation where you think. I really, I don't really think that I want to continue. And I want to work on this other project because I'm really passionate about these other things. Just try and see if you can build a bridge towards working towards those other projects and be aware that okay. Yes, maybe I, I spent all that money. I have all this debt. But I really don't want to just continue on because it's not fulfilling my desires. Maybe what I can do is I can begin to start to build a bridge towards moving. Towards this other concept that I have, like, maybe you want to be a chef or something. I don't know. And you think, how the hell am I going to start over again? But, you know, maybe you can start cooking meals or higher. Maybe you can start cooking for your friends. Maybe they're they're little steps that you can start to take to move you towards what you really do want.

Ané: 19:00

Absolutely. And as you're speaking, it reminded me of the quote the brave get rewarded at the end of the day. Like you truly do the brave get rewarded every single time. It's that courageousness that you have to just constantly go that or pivot or completely just like change your whole identity or whatever that always comes back in tenfold. Because as you guys know, we love you know, to con To connect and, and create with the universe. And we just, it's all energy. If you're going to amplify a way that you're going that way, and you're, you know, doing it with confidence and courage. I always just think that it's going to benefit you in the long run somehow. It may take a couple of years or whatever, but that's not the

Stacey: 19:46

Yep. I think so too. I think I love how you said it amplifies your energy because. The amplification of the energy, when you're moving towards your highest excitement, that's really going to be drawing people to you. There's going to be alignment. There's going to be people that are drawn to you and they not going to know exactly why, but they, they, they can feel your energy of excitement of passion. There. And it's going to grow naturally in a more effortless way for you, rather than you pushing this thing that you've been told that you should, in that you feel like, hi, really? I need to just continue on with. You know, being this lawyer, whatever, because that's, that's what I studied, but actually I want to do, maybe I want to become an actor. You know, And maybe think that's impossible. But I really think that our excitements come to us for a reason, they're there for a reason that we feel them for a reason. So I think it's our duty to follow those desires for our souls. Our ultimate soul's growth in. Our soul's expansion.

Ané: 20:52

And again, like you do pave the ripples. Like if you're just. Being able to just like, with conviction, do the project, do the thing, I can guarantee you, you'll start attracting people who do the same thing. You start collabing with people, you start to just have these new experiences happening because you are owning that you want to step into this new way. And it actually reminded me of a friend who recently, she Had a really good, like, job that's like kind of nomad living and, you know, logically it made no sense for her to leave because it was, again, good pay, it was like, it was a right environment, you know, she could travel and, and live anywhere and, you know, make pretty good money. And you know, the team was all right. Like she wasn't getting lit up necessarily, but she was like, it was all right. And she just was getting, but every month she's get more depleted. She'd get more like not motivated. She'd just be very mad, like very just, you know, and she just was like, you know what, it's time and she resigned. And she just with a lot of confidence, you know, believed and had the faith that whatever will come the next job will come and she's been traveling and just like holding that faith and literally without her really needing to like start looking for a job she literally got a dream job and and and in what in her field that's even more in alignment with her than ever before and again it's just because she had that courage to you Go to the path that's least resistant. So yeah, and this applies for projects as well. Like even if you are in a full time gig or you have a business or whatever, it's like you may do projects. It's like polar opposite to your business, polar opposite to your day to day life. But that's the exciting part. Like we are multidimensional people. So why not? Why not enjoy it all?

Stacey: 22:50

Like. Like if you'll call to something. And even if you can't see if it's going to make you money, or even if you can't see a way there. I think just start to follow it in small ways, start to follow that and see how you can cultivate it and have that faith and that trust. And the confidence in yourself to know that that desire is there for a reason. And that, like you said, with your friend, you know, she had the confidence and just sort of had that faith, hold the faith and. Save yourself. I think that I'm following the serve reason and we may have to step into the unknown. Which can feel really scary. But once we step in wholeheartedly, I feel like there will be. Yeah, like you said, there will be things that will come in and they will sort of scoop us up and push All along and help us and things will appear for us to be able to. Yeah, support us along the way to achieve those dreams.

Ané: 23:49

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So we would love to hear what kind of projects you guys are owning and you want to start this year. And yeah, let us let us be there to support you guys and it's, it's so fun when you have people, you know, connections and support to be there and be like, hell yeah, you could do that. And so please let us know. You can follow us on Instagram. And also you have our website is linked below, trusting the universe and shit. So we would love to hear from you guys.

Stacey: 24:22

that you have or any insights that you may have had from the podcast. you can DM us on Instagram and you can also contact us on our website, if you would like to suggest a topic. Or if you would like to just give us some feedback, you can also leave us a review on apple podcasts. We would love to read them. So yeah, we would love to hear from you. So thank you for listening to this episode. It was a pleasure and we'll see you next time.

Ané: 24:50

See you guys. Thanks. Bye.