Note: I used the microphone and it sounds a little "wonky." In this episode, I share more of my truths, as I discuss taking a week off at the turn of every season (well, March, June, and September) to work on my goals and in that I am reminded that the creative process is not to be rushed. The process is for the creative (in this case, ME) to evolve, grow, heal, and teach. And, while the product - the creation is the gift to the world, your evolving and growth is "also" your gift to your community and the world. Mari
Please note: Amber’s business is @iSoulnaturals
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Greetings, friends. I took this week off so that I could work on writing. I'm writing a book and as it turns out I think I'm writing more than one book. Right now I'm flushing out and I'm transcribing the thousand. I have over a thousand messages that I've or voice notes, voice memos that I've recorded that is going into a book or two or three. So right now I'm transcribing it and I just left a message for my co-host, Amber, as she was checking in on me and on a process, which you know we check in on each other daily. I'm so grateful for my sister our sisterhood. It's so powerful and so strong. And on that note, it's really, really good, my sisters, to have people that you feel comfortable with. There's no as women, you know, there's sometimes there's competition. There's an inability to really flow and be yourself because you feel something inside of you when it comes to that person. There's it's not pure. It's not pure energy. And I'm grateful to have um this sister from another mister, and we have pure energy with each other. It's such a blessing. So I was, you know, responding to her check-in as she knew that I took this week off to write, and I was sharing with her, and I thought that I would share with you that as I take this week off, and also let me share this. I decided that until I'm in a position to travel, take my family on a trip, what I will do with my time off, now that I have grown children, and even though I have grown children, I still have the desire to take them on travel, it's not something that I've been able to do. While we've gone places together, we've not I've never been in a position for a plethora of reasons to take my family on travel. And because every day is an opportunity to do something that you've never done, create something new, I am working towards every year being able to afford to take my grown children and my grandson on travel for my birthday. I am asking them, and this has been something I've been wanting to do for a long time, to ask them to, as a birthday gift, to allow me to take us on a family trip every year. So I don't know when that year will be. I'm in flow, and I'm just asking Spirit to be my guide in terms of saving the money and having the money annually to go somewhere together. That being said, in the interim, I have decided that I will take every season, March, June, and September, not December, only because I want to save that week and get reimbursed. Thank God I work for a firm that allows you to get reimbursed or carry over five days worth of your vacation. So that five that fifth week, I mean, yeah, no, that fourth week of vacation, I will save five days and get reimbursed, and the plan is to use that reimbursement the next year towards getting tickets for travel for the family. So again, from March, June, and September, however, I will take five days and I will work on my projects, and these are passion projects, these are um these are connected to the things that I believe I'm here to do. I am blessed to be a very decent writer, and um so and I have some other gifts here and there. So each season I will work, and I have and these gifts are tied to my the um businesses, business ideas that I wish to launch, that I've been guided to launch for a very long time. So as I was sharing, going back to what I was sharing with my sister from another mister regarding how I'm doing, I shared that the following. I shared that I have five days, and here it is, today is Tuesday. I'm also in grad school and I'm taking a media law class, and out of all the classes, it's the class that is the least takes out, you know, a lot of mental capacity because I'm I'm it's the least interesting to me. Um not discounting it is just the least interesting to me. So I have homework. I had homework to do yesterday, I have a little bit of homework to do today, and after that, and of course I'm working out last week. I'm so proud to say that I worked out three days, but my goal is to work out four days a week, and this week, because I'm off, I'm working out 6.30 to 7.30, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then I'm giving myself a break Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So I worked out and I'm about to finish this last assignment and then start writing. And of course, you know, I need to juice my uh do my juicing and you know get my provisions for the day, my meal plan for the day together. So that's of course um spilling over into the time to write. However, what I realize is that as a creative, and Amber is a creative, she's the owner of of I Souls Natural, so please check her out. ISouls, I S O U L Souls, um, I S O U L S Natural. Um, I sometimes get uh confused whether it's iSouls Natural or I Soul Naturals, but if you type any variation of that, it will come up. And she has these luxury body butters and and um uh body oils and soaps and bombs. Just check it out. So anyway, she's a creative, so she understands that as a creative, and this is the point, as a creative, it is not just it's not about rushing the process. Is a not it's not about rushing to the destination, it's about getting all that you can out of the process, because the process is designed to grow you, to teach you, to heal you, to help resolve, expand you, so and and then when you inflow, complete the process, the product is the gift, but also your evolution as a human being as a result of the process is also the gift. So as I'm taking this time to write, and as yesterday I stopped because A, it was getting late, and B, it got painful. There was a memory that I was typing through as a part of the book that was painful, and I opted to give myself grace and to pick up with that the next day while not allowing myself to feel like I have to work through the night because this all is also my vacation time, right? I work a job we who work a nine to five and get a W2. You know, we work these jobs every day, and we only get breaks here and there if we have an a vacation, you know, if we not vacation first, but if we have an appointment that gives us a break from our routine, and then we have some people are not even blessed to have four weeks to play with, so you you you're constantly in this flow of getting up, going to work, getting up, getting going to work nine to five, eight to four, some people longer days, and then you only have this small period of time to live your life. So I'm grateful to have five days off where uh really it was six days because I took Friday to Friday off, and um you know, to just um be, you know, we we have only these small periods of time to be. So when you are having moments of creativity, no matter how you do it, whether you're able to take time off, or if you're doing it on the weekends, doing it before your the nine to five or after the nine to five, it's really important to me that you allow yourself to be in flow, allow yourself to feel, allow yourself to think, allow yourself to expand the thought and not worry about the clock. Trust the process, trust that you will complete it, right? And allow yourself to expand and grow, evolve and heal as you use that time and that gift of creativity, and then be proud of the product, and then also be proud of who you have become as a result of allowing yourself to go through the process. I hope that makes sense. I hope that blesses you. Peace and love.
