4 Ways to Restructure Your Life So You Shift From Being a Consumer to Being a Creator

Embrace life’s everyday graces as sacred gifts. The dangerous thing about shiny toys and material treasures is that they become your drug of choice. They bring fleeting excitement and amazing inspiration only until they become your new normal. The positive psychologists call this quirk of human behavior “hedonic adaptation”. We enjoy the novelty of the cherished watch, adored purse or enthusiastically imagined tech device until we grow bored with it. And then we begin our next hunt, like an addict obsessed with their next fix. Things never bring sustained pleasures. As a matter of fact, I humbly suggest, it’s only in life’s freest blessings that we’ll find a joy that lasts to the end.

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What was once a shiny toy or what once excited you now becomes familiar and becomes normal.What is initially new over time becomes familiar. And that's hedonic adaptation. And it really speaks to why so many people keep on buying and keep on purchasing and keep on acquiring. Now, I'm trying to link the time and energy that you invest or that someone invests acquiring being a consumer with the fact that that takes up a lot of time and energy that's stolen from you producing your masterwork and you being productive. So by becoming aware of this idea of hedonic adaptation and by shifting from being a consumer to being a creator, that is a fundamental leap. Shifting from being a consumer of goods and services and trinkets and things to being a world-class creator. provider, value deliverer that people consume, that is a way for you to start to own your game. Now, how do you get there? Well, first of all, I'd have to say it's a balance. There's nothing wrong with acquiring things. It gives you a feeling of progress. It makes your life better. It rewards you on achieving things. That's actually a good thing, but in moderation, it's a good thing. What a lot of people fall into is the snare of never ending buying. Nothing is ever enough. It's a great way to deplete your bank account and it's a great way to be always thinking of and spending time online or offline buying things, which again is time taken away from a monomaniacal focus on that masterwork or that magic or that music that will give you a beautiful life and make the world a better place. So some ideas to think about. Number one, journaling. Just becoming more aware through journaling. You want to be less acquisitive. You want to live more simply. Secondly, restructuring your life so that you get rid of the clutter. You get rid of the things that you don't need. Simplification or minimalization. Third thing, meditation. Meditation helps me a lot, grounds me. When I meditate, I often visualize or I'll recite  words like simplicity, simplicity, or I am simplifying. I am peaceful. That kind of a meditation will allow you to over time rewire your neural circuitry so you need less. And I think the final thing is just emotional healing. I've talked a lot about Mindset, Heartset, Healthset, and Soulset. And so doing the hearts at work, whether it's working with a therapist or through prayer or through energy healing, navigating and discovering where in your own emotional life you might have a hole. Maybe you never got enough love from your caregivers. Those could be your parents or grandparents, whoever it is, and starting to fill those holes with self-love through talk therapy or through energy therapy or other forms of healing. This is the powerful idea I propose to you. You will stop needing things on the outside to fill those inner holes. The snare is really, we try to buy things to make us feel emotionally better and emotionally more whole, but those outer things can never fill an inner hole. So we keep on buying and buying and buying and buying. And once you fill that inner hole with self-love and self-appreciation, then you won't need outer things as much. And it's a great way to help you in terms of your productivity.