Deadlines as Tools for Soulful Play 😊

So I'm really curious to know what is your relationship to deadlines and metrics? Do you have a natural resistance towards doing something based on a deadline because it doesn't feel like you can really express your soul? Maybe it feels constraining to your genuine loving expression to work with a deadline or a timeline or plans that you set. Well, if that's true, I think this video might be, might be somewhat interesting to you. I received a question from, or a, you know, a reflection from a student who knows my content really well. And basically she said that, she said, you know, when I set, I know that it seems natural and good for business to set deadlines, set plans, to say, oh, I'm going to launch this on this day date, I'm going to post, you know, two blog posts a month or per week or whatever. And yet my soul resists that because if those feel like cages and it's like I find myself actually do being creative after the deadline ends, after the, you know, after everyone goes to bed, after the deadline ends, after the plans have done, supposedly finished, because then it feels like the cage is removed and I can be truly sovereignty expressing now, you know, to say I don't want the arbitrary cage and I want to just express myself freely. And you know, deadlines can deaden creativity and soulful expression and all that. And I thought, I mean, I get it, I get it from sort of like a soulful perspective and maybe you can relate to that too. And, and then I realized, wait a second, wait a second, I have something for you. Joyful productivity, authentic business. Both of these phrases are an integration between the spiritual and the material. You know, joyful, the spiritual part and productivity the material part, Authentic, the spiritual or soulful part, business, the material or more grounded part. And so the way it works is to me, the way it works is this. First, I agree to start with a spiritual perspective that all is well, all is truly and deeply well. And, and you are, you have unlimited potential for creativity. And what that means is your creativity can be expressed fully if you have unlimited potential. This is true. Your creativity can be expressed fully whether you give yourself four hours to work on something or four minutes to work on something. George, how can you, how can I be creative if I give myself a four minute. That's a bit facetious. Fine, 40 minutes instead of four hours. 40 minutes to work on something. How can I be really creative and allow myself to express? Well, if you say you can't, then you are negating the soul's unlimited potential. Why couldn't the soul express itself powerfully and fully within 40 minutes or within 40 seconds. Oh, it's because your mind judges itself. The mind. The ego then says, oh, it's not good enough. And the ego will even trick your intuition. The ego will even take over and then manipulate your intuition to say, well, my intuition says that this is not soulful enough, so I better keep going and working on this thing. It's not yet expressive of my whole self, which, by the way, you'll never be able to express your whole self. Whenever I hear someone say, oh, this piece of work isn't really fully expressive of myself yet, I better keep working on this. Whether it's a blog post or a website, I kind of laugh and go, you think you can express your whole self? Yeah. Never in this lifetime. Right? The self that can be named is not the eternal self, is not your true self. Right. That comes from Dao de Jing. Dao de Jing, you know, copying the first stanza. Anyway, so back to deadlines. Can we therefore see deadlines not as a cage, but as a tool for the soul's play? Because why did you come here? Why did you come here to Earth with these limitations and the need to pay rent when over in the. In the soulful life, in the eternal life you have, you don't need to pay rent. You live rent free there and with an abundance of creativity and love forever. Why'd you come here in this limited life with so much hardship? Why? Really? I think it's good, good question every, on a regular basis, maybe every day, to ask yourself, why did I come here? And the way I like to say is, why did we come here to play the Earth game? I see it as the Earth game. This is the Earth Game, the souls playing the Earth games. And why are there needed. Why do we need to pay rent? Why do we need to pay taxes? Why does this body need to be fed and slept and cared for? And why do we need to make money? Why do we chose in this time in history to come here to have to make money? Why? Well, you might need to answer that for yourself. Your soul has an answer for you. And my answer for me, and maybe for some of us here, is that while the fact that you're drawn to my videos and you watch my videos, there's an indication of this somehow authentic business and maybe even joyful productivity was part of your mission to learn this stuff. That's why you're drawn to watching this stuff. And I am like, I need to learn how to play with these tools called deadlines and metrics as a playful thing. I'm going to write this. I'm going to record this video within 10 minutes. Even though my soul supposedly my intuition says I can keep talking about this for hours. You know, I can keep talking about this for days, but my soul's intuition says, well, maybe under 10 minutes. It's good for this video format for now. And so I better end this video, even though, oh, it's so much resistance constraint to end this video. That's just the ego co opting so called intuition and soulful expression to say, oh, it's not good enough yet. You like hearing yourself talk, George. So every deadline, every constraint can be a tool for the soul to practice expressing powerfully just for that moment. Anyway, some maybe food for soulful reflection. And as always, I look forward to seeing your comments below.