Episode 14
The Magic of Creating Space
From mental space to physical space- old beliefs that no longer serve you to that sweater you haven't worn in 8 years creating space is one of the most powerful tools that you can use to boost your productivity and creativity. Allow the old, stuck, and pent up energy to be released so that new inspiring energy and flow freely. Create the space for your creative genius to shine through and unlock that million dollar idea you've been waiting for.
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Transcript
Want to surprise yourself, you're going to surprise
Speaker:yourself with the things that you think of the ideas that you
Speaker:have. And I guarantee that your million dollar idea that you've
Speaker:been waiting for that you've been searching for probably
Speaker:searching for online trying to find through inspiration to
Speaker:other people online, through social media feeds through the
Speaker:content people are writing, you're trying to get inspired by
Speaker:them. You're trying to spark new thoughts and new ideas. That's
Speaker:all great to a certain extent. But
Speaker:for you to get your million dollar idea
Speaker:for you to create the life you want for you to truly step into
Speaker:your purpose for you to truly become the person that you're
Speaker:supposed to be putting needs to come from you.
Speaker:Hello, fellow Earthlings. Welcome to the becoming the big
Speaker:me podcast. I'm your host, Djemilah Birnie. And together,
Speaker:we will be stepping into our highest potential, exploring all
Speaker:things mind, body, and soul. With justice, major business,
Speaker:you're a spiritual badass solopreneur and a warrior for
Speaker:change, you're ready to expand your impact and leave your old
Speaker:self behind in order to raise your vibration so that you can
Speaker:positively influence your business, your community, and
Speaker:ultimately, the world. Without further ado, let's dive right
Speaker:into it.
Speaker:What is a party paid? Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker:I am in such
Speaker:a good mood today. It
Speaker:has been an absolutely fantastic last couple of days, there's
Speaker:just so much awesome shit going on right now. And I can't wait
Speaker:to share with you everything that's going on. Not yet,
Speaker:though, unfortunately, because I want to finalize everything, get
Speaker:everything all packaged up rolled out. So I can actually
Speaker:share the details accurately with you. But the past couple of
Speaker:days have just been a whirlwind of just inspiration, creativity,
Speaker:and just positivity coming into my life. And I am just so
Speaker:excited for what is to come. And what I am creating the
Speaker:inspiration and the ideas that have been coming to me the
Speaker:downloads. And I don't know, you know, there has been just some
Speaker:major, major energetic shifts since that last New Moon, which
Speaker:was the super new black moon, also the end of the retrograde
Speaker:and it's just like,
Speaker:I've just been just hit
Speaker:with so much awesomeness. And I want to just kind of talk about
Speaker:something that I believe plays into that. And that is the magic
Speaker:of creating space. I am talking about physical space, I'm
Speaker:talking about mental space. I'm talking about just space like
Speaker:base to be space to grow space to think space to do. And so one
Speaker:of the things that I have become obsessed with is cleaning things
Speaker:out purging and creating literal, physical space. When my
Speaker:daughter and I came back from Washington a couple of weeks
Speaker:ago, what two weeks ago now, when we came back, we spent
Speaker:several days just purging Marie Kondo in our life, just getting
Speaker:rid of things that were no longer using. Don't bring joy to
Speaker:our lives anymore. just creating space cleaning things out going
Speaker:through those dark corners of junk clothes, junk drawers,
Speaker:those bathroom shelves, those bathroom drawers that are just
Speaker:end up getting piled with all of this old stuff that you don't
Speaker:use went through all of our medicine cabinets just like
Speaker:cleared it out. And
Speaker:now it's like I can breathe in my home again,
Speaker:the things that are here I need the things that are here. I
Speaker:enjoy And it just makes me feel so much more high vibe. And not
Speaker:as part of what I'm talking about in the magic of creating
Speaker:space is in that that physical space going through getting rid
Speaker:of the dirt, getting rid of the old getting rid of the things
Speaker:that don't bring you joy in your home anymore. And this, you
Speaker:know, is a practice that is very, very, very important and
Speaker:talked about in Fung Shui. Now I don't really know much about
Speaker:Fung Shui, I would love to have a Fung Shui specialist on here
Speaker:at some point, because it is something that I'm extremely
Speaker:interested in learning more about, and something that I have
Speaker:been diving into a little bit on my own. And one of the big
Speaker:practices in Fung Shui is having that clear space for energy to
Speaker:flow freely when you allow things to just collect. It's
Speaker:this like stuck energy, that it just gets stagnant, and it's not
Speaker:creative. It's not bringing in the right, you know, feelings
Speaker:and flow into your life. And a practice that I have implemented
Speaker:as of late is in the mornings, I spend five minutes five to 10
Speaker:minutes, that is all and I will clear out one other little
Speaker:corner of my house, whether it's just, you know, one drawer, one
Speaker:shelf, one box, one little area, and I will just clear it out. So
Speaker:it's not overwhelming. So it's not like I'm trying to do
Speaker:everything at the same time.
Speaker:But I'm cleaning it out, I'm
Speaker:getting rid of it. And, you know, I believe that our
Speaker:physical reality is a complete reflection of our internal
Speaker:reality. So how we keep our home, how we keep our spaces, is
Speaker:a reflection of, of our inside of our minds. And not only is it
Speaker:important to create this physical space, and clear out
Speaker:old things pick up the dirt, but it's also very important
Speaker:to
Speaker:clear out that mental space to clear out those old thoughts
Speaker:that are no longer serving you those thoughts that don't bring
Speaker:you joy, those programs that maybe served you at one point in
Speaker:your life, but the season, the chapter, the book that you are
Speaker:currently on in your life is no longer serving you. And so
Speaker:that's a practice that I have now put into my morning, I
Speaker:create space, both mentally and physically, I do five to 10
Speaker:minutes of clearing just a small section, creating space in my
Speaker:physical reality. And then I do my meditations and my intention
Speaker:setting and my journaling is to, to dive into my belief systems
Speaker:and those programs that are running in my head, those deep
Speaker:closets that those junk drawers of your brain where you just
Speaker:kind of throw all your junk and then you just shut it and you
Speaker:think that you forget about it, but you know that it's there,
Speaker:right? So
Speaker:it's,
Speaker:it's so powerful, it's so powerful to just create that
Speaker:space, you know, the saying, when one door closes, another
Speaker:one opens? Well, it's very cliche, it's, you know, maybe
Speaker:overused, but
Speaker:it's, it's
Speaker:true, it's there for a reason. It is the reason why people say
Speaker:that is because when you allow yourself the space when you shut
Speaker:off one area when you take a step back from something that's
Speaker:no longer serving you you're giving yourself and the universe
Speaker:permission to bring in new things to bring in new energy
Speaker:until your life you're getting rid of that old pent up
Speaker:space.
Speaker:Now, the other thing with creating space as a creative as
Speaker:a visionary, as a business owner as a solopreneur a solopreneur.
Speaker:Anyone who is trying to be creative and download new ideas
Speaker:how you know whether you're writing a book, starting a
Speaker:podcast, creating a course coaching, just trying to be more
Speaker:present online, create content, whatever it is, you need to
Speaker:create space for yourself to be creative. And in this day and
Speaker:age, it can be really hard because there's so many
Speaker:distractions going on that we never give ourselves any mental
Speaker:space. There's the social media and all of the notifications
Speaker:happening on our phone on a constant basis. And just so much
Speaker:noise that technology has brought to us. And technology is
Speaker:amazing. I love technology, it gives me the power to
Speaker:communicate with you right now, it gives me the power to have
Speaker:friends all over the entire world like this podcast, they
Speaker:have listeners, all across the United States, I have listeners
Speaker:in Canada, Australia, like, it's just, it's Singapore, like, it's
Speaker:crazy. I love technology, it's so powerful, but we have allowed
Speaker:it to overrun our brains a lot of the time, and especially as
Speaker:business owners, because building our business, like you
Speaker:have to be present online to build your business. So you end
Speaker:up spending so much of your time, with all of these
Speaker:different distractions happening in your life, and we never give
Speaker:ourselves the space to actually think and the space to be
Speaker:ourselves, the space to actually be bored.
Speaker:One of my
Speaker:favorite, favorite favorite things, is to be bored. I
Speaker:absolutely love it.
Speaker:Why because all
Speaker:your best ideas are going to come when you're bored, when you
Speaker:don't have things going on all of these distractions. So when
Speaker:you're creating space, there's, I mean, there's so many levels.
Speaker:So so so so many levels to creating space, we already
Speaker:talked about, you know, creating that physical space by
Speaker:physically cleaning out old things, and physically getting
Speaker:rid of, you know, things that no longer bring you joy, things
Speaker:that are just sitting around and collecting pent up energy, we
Speaker:talked about creating the mental space by going through the junk
Speaker:drawers of your brain and clearing them out, bringing to
Speaker:light those programs, those old ideas and beliefs that have
Speaker:been, you know, running in the background that you just tried
Speaker:to compartmentalize and shove away, but it's still there. So
Speaker:we talked about that. But the other part of this is giving
Speaker:yourself the space to create. So that's where this boredom comes
Speaker:in, you have to give yourself that time, you have to give your
Speaker:brain space to think you have to give your brain space to become
Speaker:bored, so that it can come up with its creative genius. So you
Speaker:can come up with brilliant ideas. So you can download
Speaker:source of knowledge. So you can,
Speaker:you know, just
Speaker:think of new things and not just be constantly bombarded with the
Speaker:noise of the world with the noise of social media with the
Speaker:pressure of the notifications with the having to respond to
Speaker:everyone, all of the time. We're getting all of these different
Speaker:messages from all of these different sources. And so then,
Speaker:like how do we even know what thoughts are coming from us what
Speaker:thoughts are just replaying from things that we've seen. And
Speaker:that's where this next tip is going to tie in.
Speaker:I have
Speaker:a habit that I have implemented in my life that has completely
Speaker:changed everything. I mean, literally everything is giving
Speaker:myself space to be bored. How do I do that? Well, my phone goes
Speaker:off at a certain time at night, all the technology gets put away
Speaker:all of those distractions, all of those notifications, they get
Speaker:shot off they get put into a certain place
Speaker:and and
Speaker:that's it and then I stay up I I probably go to sleep around 10
Speaker:or 11 at night. These days, I only have to sleep about five
Speaker:hours to actually feel fully energized. And I think that part
Speaker:of this is because I now put away technology and all those
Speaker:notifications and that blue light I put it away several
Speaker:hours before I go to bed so I'm able to get a much more deep
Speaker:sleep. And I'm waking up way more energized now than I ever
Speaker:did back then when I would sleep 810 hours and The other thing
Speaker:that is happening is during this hour to two hours, is my brain
Speaker:is on fire. It's just every all of these things are just popping
Speaker:off left and right ideas content flowing through me.
Speaker:Why? Because
Speaker:I gave myself the space for that to happen. Okay, now, the next
Speaker:tip that I have on creating space is another physical tip.
Speaker:So this is one that is a tangible physical tip here. And
Speaker:that is to create a blank space in your room, I would suggest
Speaker:your room, you can do it wherever you want, really. But
Speaker:if it's at nighttime, like I would suggest your room, and
Speaker:that's what I do anyways, he blinks space, that's literally
Speaker:just a blank space. So for me, that is a whiteboard, it is a
Speaker:big whiteboard that I have in my room that is blank, I keep it
Speaker:blank. The reason being is on a subconscious level, our brains
Speaker:don't like whitespace, they don't like blank things,
Speaker:especially if it's something that is typically filled up such
Speaker:as a whiteboard, like, who just has a blank whiteboard all the
Speaker:time you write stuff on whiteboards, right? And our
Speaker:brain.
Speaker:It
Speaker:it's a sub on a subconscious level wants to fill up that
Speaker:white space. It's very similar to how our brains don't
Speaker:like unanswered questions. So when you read a question, your
Speaker:brain is automatically already looking for the answer for it.
Speaker:And that's just one of the ways that it operates. That is the
Speaker:same as space, empty space. So having that empty space in your
Speaker:bro, no technology, you're giving yourself a physical
Speaker:space, and you're giving yourself a mental space to
Speaker:create and to step into your genius, and to receive creative,
Speaker:intuitive downloads. And I'm telling you, if you do those
Speaker:simple things, if you just do those two simple things, put
Speaker:away all technology an hour before bed, and create yourself
Speaker:a blank space in your sacred place. Whether that be your
Speaker:bedroom, I like the bedroom, because at nighttime, I'm always
Speaker:getting ready for bed, putting away clothes like doing that
Speaker:kind of thing. So it's like right there and I have to see it
Speaker:while I'm doing it. Like that's the only thing you want to be
Speaker:able to see it, put it in a place that's visible, where
Speaker:you're going to constantly see it and your brain is just going
Speaker:to start filling it. Now once you fill your whiteboard, you
Speaker:take a picture of your whiteboard, and you race it, and
Speaker:then it just will keep coming because again, it's space, it's
Speaker:empty space, you are having to fill it again, your brain is
Speaker:going flowing, it is going to want to fill up that empty
Speaker:space. And seriously, since I've started doing this, like
Speaker:everything has been flowing, the ideas just keep coming. I am not
Speaker:I'm writing two books like I'm running, you know, several
Speaker:businesses I'm have this podcast and in the works launching a
Speaker:another podcast that is solely going to be focused on
Speaker:marketing, because my my agency is a digital marketing agency
Speaker:and I constantly have people coming to me, asking questions
Speaker:are very specific to the digital marketing realm, that are not
Speaker:people who would care at all about the content that I post on
Speaker:here, the spiritual stuff, definitely more of that, you
Speaker:know,
Speaker:hustle, hustle,
Speaker:energy, male energy, male centered energy. So that podcast
Speaker:is going to have a totally different feel. But all of these
Speaker:things have come to me. All of these ideas have flown to me
Speaker:with ease, since I have created the ritual of creating space for
Speaker:myself. And I think
Speaker:that scratch that.
Speaker:I know, I know that if you implement just those two, I
Speaker:mean, the other two that I started with are going to help
Speaker:you as well. But even if you don't do those at all, if you
Speaker:just put the blank whiteboard in your room, turn off all the
Speaker:technology turn off all the distractions an hour before
Speaker:that, you're going to surprise yourself, you're going to
Speaker:surprise yourself with the things that you think of the
Speaker:ideas that you have. And I guarantee that
Speaker:your million dollar idea
Speaker:that you've been waiting for that you've been searching for
Speaker:probably searching for online training. Find through
Speaker:inspiration to other people online, through social media
Speaker:feeds through the content people are writing, you're trying to
Speaker:get inspired by them, you're trying to spark new thoughts and
Speaker:new ideas. That's all great to a certain extent.
Speaker:But for you to get your million dollar idea
Speaker:for you to create that life, you want for you to truly step into
Speaker:your purpose for you to truly become the person that you're
Speaker:supposed to be that needs to come from you. And how is it
Speaker:going to come from you, if you're constantly being
Speaker:bombarded with other people and other people's opinions? I want
Speaker:you to think about that. And with that, I'm going to close
Speaker:this episode. Because I really don't want to dilute the message
Speaker:here. And I want this to be something that you take action
Speaker:on, I want you to make this sacred time for yourself.
Speaker:If you're a business owner,
Speaker:your entire business is going to transform. If you're a wannabe
Speaker:business owner, that business idea is going to come to if
Speaker:you're just working for another person, if you are an
Speaker:intrapreneur, if you are working in a organization, this is still
Speaker:going to help you because you're going to get more ideas, which
Speaker:is going to make you more valuable to that company, which
Speaker:is going to bring you more abundance, which is going to
Speaker:bring you more money. Or maybe you're working for another
Speaker:company right now. And you've been wanting to start your own
Speaker:business but you're just can't figure out what it is you just
Speaker:don't
Speaker:know.
Speaker:This is going to help you find it. This is magic. It's
Speaker:real life
Speaker:magic.
Speaker:It is a tangible thing that you can do for yourself, to step
Speaker:into your power to become the person that you're supposed to
Speaker:be to channel your inner genius and to just allow yourself the
Speaker:space to think the space to be bored the space to create.
Speaker:Thank you for tuning into today's episode of The becoming
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