Creating the Muse
Brandon Handley 0:00
Good morning, it's time to get up and go to work. And it's always been one of my favorite lines from the Beastie Boys, right? I don't remember what song that leads into. But it was always great. It's got it's got to be on Paul's boutique. Right? Paul's boutique was always one of my favorites. I still remember, still remember finding Paul's boutique for the first time? Like what the hell? Where's this? Ben? Right? Where has this been? such an amazing album. So Meg, and I go back and forth often on the whole idea of, of obviously, forcing something but needing to be have a muse, right, needing to have a muse needing the moment to be right to launch into your artwork or your thing, whatever it is that you do. And I think that, um, I think that what can happen is that you always wait for like that perfect moment. And sometimes the Muse doesn't strike you or or like, you've got so much. You've got so much riding on that muse. And you won't do something, because you're waiting for that perfect moment. And I was thinking about that this morning, as I was like, man, I really don't have a whole lot to share, per se. Or is it really the fact that you're kind of waiting for that perfect something. And a lot of times, and I don't do it as often as I'd like. But also there and I'll write it out. Sometimes the podcast some of the early podcasts that I did, especially with, especially with setting up the the beginning, the divine, to divine peace, right, when I did the framework for that, definitely set that up went through each one wrote it all out. And it was definitely well thought out, I felt like it was well thought out, at least it was thought out there was a completion it was done before it was done, as it were, the framework was there and I created it. And then, um, you know that that process in of itself was like, Alright, well, when you got the idea, just flush it out. And you just got you got the idea, just do it and take one run at it. And you always have the opportunity to take another run at it. But the deal is, is like, if you keep building a resistance, you know, to this thing that you want to do. But you don't feel like you've got the perfect thing that you can do for it, then you'll always kind of you always have that resistance there. It'll always be there. And you may never you may never, you may never overcome like that, that that tiny, tiny thing, right? That moment of perfection that moment of I know I can do so much better than this. This is crap.
You Why would I do? Why would I do this this thing and it's not the greatest. And I bring that up like I said this morning, I was like, you know, I haven't done them for a while. And I miss I miss doing all canaries sorry. You don't see them that often. The deal is is like you don't you get kind of stuck in like this pattern, right? You get stuck in a rut of not doing the thing that you want to do. So you never do it. And, you know, I would encourage you as you're, you know, thinking about that thing that you want to do, right? I'm doing the course a creative personal mastery with us. Sreekumar Rao, what a great course. And this week, we're doing a couple two different things. And the two different things that we're going through our mindfulness, which I feel you know, I I'm fairly mindful, I'm not perfect at it by any stretch of the imagination. But I am much more present much more aware and much more mindful these days than I have been in the past 40 years. I can definitely I can definitely say that. And the other piece is being bigger than your problem. Being bigger than the situation. I think being bigger than the situation is better than saying bigger than the problem. That's where this this comes in. That's the idea of, of what we're doing today is be bigger than the situation be bigger than where you're at and saying something to yourself like, well, this isn't perfect, well, maybe it's not perfect. But that's what begins the light leak. That's what begins the crack in the dam. That's what begins the everything for you, right, as soon as you begin to open up and let it trickle, you begin to let it trickle. And then it just it just at some point, it doesn't stop, it blows it all up, right blows it through. And I guess it creates an erosion effect of the dam. And over time, each little bit that you take action on each little piece is one more step closer to where it is that you want to be. And who it is that you say you would like to be. When you when you go through this process, are you making a left, I'm making a left, we're both making a left, I don't trust you ready? 123. All right, thanks for not hitting me, when when we both win, when you begin to take those steps towards the thing that you say you want to do. No matter how small no matter how imperfect, you begin to erode that dam and you begin to step more confidently. And what I mean by that, think about the baby steps. And if you haven't raised a child, then think about when you see a baby horse, right, a full, full, taking some of its first steps, and, and those legs are super wobbly. And they don't know, the horse doesn't know, the baby doesn't know, it doesn't have confidence in their capability of their limbs, and how are they going to work. And the next thing, you know, you can't find can't find the child. And and next thing you know, you've got that one year old, full, who's now cold is running. I think they usually three years old, but you know, they're running, they're running races, the run races that are literally running circles around you know, something else. And the idea is, once you begin to get your bearing, once you begin to get past that moment of, I guess it's like insecurity, of whether or not you feel like you have the perfect thing to say, you know, you begin to develop that confidence in yourself. And then you begin to just enjoy being that person who you are, there's a lot more joy in letting, letting anything out really anything that you express good or bad. But especially when you express something that is in line with who you believe yourself to be at that
time. And I say it like that because over time you're going to evolve and change and and i think that that's very important to realize and recognize as well. Your core ideas and beliefs may always be your core ideas and beliefs. But over time, like there's going to be the the the surroundings of those core ideas and beliefs are going to change and evolve and expand and whatnot. So who what is it that's in your life right now that you you've been you know, kind of waiting for the perfect moment where you've been waiting to shine your light, right? Like I wrote, I wrote something the other day that really talked about this talking about it was a quote talking about coming out of decisions made and fear are never as good as the ones that made are made and like the feeling of abundance and whatnot and when when you when you begin to open up right when you begin to shine, that light when you begin to feel who you are right the fear begins to recede and you begin to you begin, you begin to feel again, right you begin to feel safe again, you begin to feel whole again, as who you are, again within intention of being, being who and what you want to be. And to me, that's, that's very powerful. As you it'll allows you to see, it just allows you to feel more comfortable with who you are, right? And it doesn't, it doesn't have to be a big thing. What is it that you want to do that would be in alignment with who you are, that you kept yourself from doing. Because you feel like the moment needs to be perfect, or you feel like the moments not perfect. But all you got to do is just start, all you've got to do is just take one small action into into that space, and you'd begin to see yourself as the person that you you've been telling yourself that you are all this time. And to me, and for me, you know, this is all from experience. zahl from from experience for me and starting my first podcast and starting my second third, and being that person and being in alignment. And continuing to I don't want to say evolve, expand, I would say expand on the ideas that that I have had interactions that I've had and expand on who it is that I've become Who who are you being in the end, right? Who is it that you want to be and start showing up like that. And again, once you start taking those small, incremental steps into that, then you're going to feel you're going to you're going to feel that self confidence, you're going to begin to feel more at home. with yourself, which is which is kind of it's ironic, right? You're going to begin to feel that confidence. And when you do, you step into that. That's what everybody's always talking about kind of stepping into your power, right step into your power. Fuck the people that are like, stupid to your power. Or like you're stepping into your greatness. I remember talking to people at a convention years ago, and people really want to shy away from the fact that they are already great, right shying away from this, the idea that you are already everything that you need to be in order to be who you would like to be. And that's it. That's great. You know, everybody's wants the ideas, like everybody's endowed with the seeds of greatness. Right? You're, it's up to you to kind of nurture that and make it so and become the person that you'd like to become and in alignment with all the things. So hopefully, you know, like I said, so this one started off with like, just the idea of like, I just want to get in and do it again. I
haven't done one for a while. And for me, I feel like that came out. Okay. Right. And for me, I feel good because I got in and did it today, right? It's kind of like when you go to the gym, right? You don't. You don't always want to go to the gym. But when you're done, you're always glad that you went Alright, that's it guys take it easy and hit me up on spiritual dope Brandon at spiritual dope.co
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