Reflections on Creation: Excitement & Joy are the Currencies of Success

Meg Kearney (00:01)
Welcome back everyone to another episode of Root to Rise Seeds for the Soul podcast. I'm your host Meg and today I kind of just wanted to check in and let you all know where I've been at in the past couple of months and some reflections that I've taken away as I've been

starting this podcast journey and figuring things out as I go. So originally, I started this podcast because of the level of gratitude that I felt for so many self-help spiritual books and how much I had credited these books for getting me to the place where

I am now where I feel as though I have a lot of awareness about things and I'm sort of moving in the direction of the person that I would like to become. And when I started the podcast, I felt so inspired. I was already reading a lot of books on a weekly basis. I was listening to different podcasts and

just absorbing so much information and I really felt like I was in the flow of inspiration. And that's where the love and the joy and the excitement for the podcast came about. So at this point, I sort of was off the grid. I didn't have social media really. I...

wasn't really looking at what other people were doing. I just had a couple podcasts that I liked to listen to personally, and I would listen to those religiously, and then I would just find books or read books that were calling to me at the time. And so I had a lot of people say to me, you would be really great at podcasting. You...

like talking to people and you're inspired by this stuff, et cetera. So I went with that wave and I started the podcast and with that came sort of this idea that the podcast had to become successful in a certain way for me to feel good about

doing the podcast. And in the beginning, I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to read the next book, find the next guest, have all these things lined up, boom, boom, boom, boom. And what I noticed in that process was that I wasn't enjoying reading the books as much. wasn't feeling inspired. I was viewing

the reading and the reaching out and the whole podcast concept as a chore. And this was not typical because this passion that I have for spirituality, for spiritual development is something that I've had for the past few years since I had my spiritual awakening, which I talk about in one of my

first episodes, which I can link below if anyone's interested. But I think what happened here was that I convinced myself that I, one, wanted the podcast to be successful. I wanted this podcast to become my full-time gig and I wanted to expand it. And that's the only reason to have a podcast is to be successful. And so I created a

an Instagram after not having Instagram for, I don't know, three years. And let me tell you, I did not miss Instagram. I have found myself scrolling on it, comparing myself, consuming content. And I became slightly disenchanted with the spiritual wellness space.

Whereas when I was just reading books and it was on my own time and I was choosing the books and I was just going with my flow and my inspiration, I

found that to be very different versus being on Instagram, which has this algorithm that knows that I like spiritual content and self-development. And I've just found that so much of this content is trying to sell something. And that feels exhausting to me. And I

don't necessarily believe that marketing is necessary and selling is necessary to have success in life. think there are many other ways that you can have success, which is word of mouth in your community, just joy and excitement in and of itself is a success because there seems to be so little of it in everybody's

Maybe not everybody's, there seems to be a little of it in daily life sometimes. And so I felt myself getting caught up of, oh, well, how am I going to monetize this? How am I going to get listeners X, Y, and Z? What can I do? How can I grow with this? And I had to stop. I had to take a pause. I had to take a step back from podcasting to say, whoa, wait a minute. I

was never doing this podcast thinking that this was going to become my full-time gig. Sure, that was a dream of mine and an idea and something to maybe feel excited about. However, the true excitement that I get from podcasting is coming across books and topics that I feel so inspired by and getting to talk to the people who

are teaching about these topics. So with that being said, this break from really efforting, forcing, dog paddling to try to make something happen with this podcast, this break has given me so much time to reflect and to rediscover my joy in

these topics. And so I'm making a commitment to myself and to this podcast to really be so mindful about the people that I'm asking to be on the books that I'm consuming, the content that I'm consuming. And I kind of wanted to share this as more of a

broader theme and message that maybe other people could take away as well is that your joy and your excitement is truly the currency that matters the most. And especially for women, because it seems as though most of the people in this wellness, self-development space are women.

You do not need to buy things, to sell yourself, to invest in coaching programs. You don't need any of this stuff to create success in your life. And you don't need to have your own business or your own services that you're offering to do the things that you really like to do. Nobody has to listen to it.

Nobody has to find it. You don't need to be discovered for your passions to be worth something. And I think this is something, this is a lesson that I personally will need to come back to again and again. And it's okay to take a pause, especially if there's anyone out there who, like me, gets really excited.

and really fixated and hyper-focused on what I'm doing. And then it can just be boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. One thing leads to the next to the next. And before you know it, you're not even really, well, I'm not even really conscious of what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. And so taking an intentional pause has been so powerful for me, where I felt the energy.

start to become very frantic and not coming from this place of peace and joy and love that it was previously coming from. And I found it so powerful to just say, okay, we're done looking, we're done seeking, we're done buying all these books and consuming all this content in the hopes that somebody is going to agree to be a podcast guest on this show.

Let's just stop. Let's just stop. You don't have to read anything. This is the conversation I have with myself. You don't have to read anything. You don't have to listen to anything. You don't have to do anything. Your podcast is not going to go anywhere. And you don't you don't owe anyone any any explanation as to what you're doing and why. And I'm telling you, I feel so energized and I had this book on

my shelf that I got probably close to two months ago now and I had been wanting to read it and it just didn't feel like the right time. I really wanted to be so mindful the next time I picked up a book that I genuinely was picking it up because I wanted to read it and not because of the habitual pattern of just needing to read all these things to fix myself or make myself more spiritual or whatever it is.

Anyways, so this is a topic, this book is on a topic that I'm so passionate about that is so seemingly out there because I don't know a lot of people that are doing work with this and that are talking about it. but it's something that inspires me and lights me up and makes my perception of what's possible expand. So I had this book anyways, and I started reading it and

Once I'm done, I may do a mini book review or recap on the book and the things I've learned and what I've put into practice and how, because the inspiration is back. I immediately picked up this book and I read maybe a chapter and I was like, yup, this is the feeling. This is the passion. This is the excitement. This is where I want to create from. This is where I want to reach.

out to people from. This is what I need to have in order for me to create anything. So with that being said, you know, I'm sure you know that feeling that true genuine excitement, you can feel it in your chest or wherever it shows up in your body for me. It's my

My chest feels like it's exploding with excitement. And I would just say follow that feeling. And if you don't have that feeling when you're creating something, take a pause, wait, especially if you listen to human design at all and you're a manifester like I am. It is so important to just wait for the urge and just trust that no matter what, the urge is going to come.

And every time that I have taken a pause and just waited and not put the pressure on myself for the urge to come, it shows up. And it's that same joy every time I rediscover it, I rediscover the passion. I feel that same joy, that excitement, that, yes, here it is. Here's the feeling. And I would just encourage you all, if there's anything in your life that gives you that feeling,

follow that feeling and anything that doesn't, you probably don't need to be following it. So yeah, that's all I had for today. I just wanted to give a little update, a little episode about where I'm at with the podcast and maybe some things to come. So thank you so much for tuning in today and feel free to reach out to me on Instagram. I do have

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Yeah, as always, thank you all so much for listening. Stay tuned for the next episode and I hope you have a great rest of your day. Much love to you all.