18: When the Life You Built No Longer Fits: How to Find Your Next Creative Direction
What if your next creative breakthrough doesn't come from doing more, but from doing what truly matters?
In this episode, I’m talking directly to you—the creative soul who sometimes wonders
Am I on the right path? Or worse, Am I behind?
Spoiler alert: you’re exactly where you need to be.
We’ll explore what it means to create intentionally, how to stop spinning your wheels, and how to start steering toward the life and work you actually want. I share my own turning point—the moment I realized moving to Costa Rica wasn’t just a random whim but a signal to step into who I really want to be.
This isn’t about vague “woo-woo” stuff (although I'm into that too). It’s about practical, purposeful action. If you have a creative dream quietly tugging at you, this episode is for you.
Why Intentionality Matters
Not all busy work is progress. I break down how to spot what’s worth your time and energy, and why you have to align your actions with your values.
Becoming Who You Want to Be
It’s less about checking off tasks — although there's plenty of that —and more about evolving your identity. I also talk about how tiny shifts in what you do daily connect to your bigger vision.
Reading the Signals
That recurring idea or dream isn’t random. It’s your creative compass. I share how I recognized my own signal and used it to navigate my real-life move.
Taking Action Without Overwhelm
I’ll walk you through how to lean into your calling without burning out, plus some mindset shifts to help you move forward.
You’re Not Alone
Creative work can feel lonely, but it doesn’t have to be. I touch on the power of community and support along the journey.
Try this:
- Reflect: What’s the one creative idea or dream that keeps coming back to you? Could it be a signal to act?
- Shift: What’s one small action you can take this week that aligns with who you want to become?
- Reach out: Need a sounding board? I’m here. Book a free strategy session or send me a DM on Instagram.
Your creative journey is uniquely yours. But with intention and a little support, it can be the most fulfilling thing you ever do.
Resources Mentioned
- Instagram: @standoutcreativebusiness
- Substack: standoutcreativebusiness.substack.com
- Coaching & brainstorming sessions: standoutcreativebusiness.com
Transcript
Welcome back to another episode of the Standout Creatives.
Speaker A:And today I'm going to be talking about when the life you built no longer fits.
Speaker A:So I've been on a couple months hiatus from the podcast and that was not because of burnout or anything like that.
Speaker A:It's because of a big and bold move me and my wife made along with my dog, and how this bold move and a quiet pause reshaped how I'm going to be creating going forward, resting as well as creating, and how I want to lead my creative life.
Speaker A:To some or to most people who saw what I was up to or the life that I was living previously, it looked pretty successful.
Speaker A:It was a very, very nice looking life.
Speaker A:And that was something I kept telling myself for years, that this was a good life.
Speaker A:You're doing the right thing.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:You're doing everything you can with the life that you're leading.
Speaker A:But there was something that was still just a little bit off.
Speaker A:When things are going great and you think you should be grateful, but you're still not feeling that sense of gratitude all the time.
Speaker A:There's, there's usually a reason behind that.
Speaker A:I did have a very nice, cozy home that we built for ourselves in Florida.
Speaker A:There were a lot of great routines that I built, especially along the podcast, my substack, all the creative things I was working on.
Speaker A:I had a steady job.
Speaker A:Me and my wife both had good jobs on the outside, and those helped to pay all the bills.
Speaker A:And when you own your own house, you know, those bills start to stack up.
Speaker A:You have a house, you have the cars, you have all this stuff that you're paying for.
Speaker A:And having that steady work is definitely good.
Speaker A:But under the surface of all the stuff on the exterior, I think we both felt a little bit stuck.
Speaker A:There are times in your life when you feel like you need to make a big change.
Speaker A:And this was definitely one of those moments.
Speaker A:Everything looked good on the outside, but things where, you know, on, on the inside, we're, we're feeling this clash of is this really what we should be doing?
Speaker A:We weren't really creatively blocked.
Speaker A:We were just not aligned with the lives that we know we could be living.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's harder to walk away from what's working than what's broken.
Speaker A:Why do I say that?
Speaker A:It's because when things are broken, it's easy to say, oh, let's make a change.
Speaker A:Things are not working at all.
Speaker A:You're, you're feeling down, things just tend to stack up.
Speaker A:And all this stuff is really Making you feel the pressure to do something different.
Speaker A:But when things are looking good, at least on the outside, it can be hard to walk away from that.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Why is all this coming up?
Speaker A:Why am I bringing all of this up?
Speaker A:There was a question we were telling ourselves, me and my wife, Anita, and we just couldn't ignore that question any longer.
Speaker A: Valentine's Day of this year,: Speaker A:And we asked ourselves something that we'd been thinking about on the side a lot leading up to this moment.
Speaker A:And that's what's really stopping us from moving to Costa Rica.
Speaker A:This might seem like it's coming out of nowhere, but this is something that really has built up over the years.
Speaker A:It's something that started when my wife went a few years ago, and she loved it.
Speaker A:It was part of her bachelorette trip.
Speaker A:And the very next year she took me there.
Speaker A:She said, you're going to love it.
Speaker A:And it turned out I really did love it, too.
Speaker A:And it's something after the trip that we took together is like, maybe we can live here one day.
Speaker A:And that one day was always a thought of.
Speaker A:And 20, 30 years, when we're near retirement, we have a bunch of money stacked out.
Speaker A:We can.
Speaker A:We can kind of do that, right?
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That was always the idea that we had for at least the last few years.
Speaker A:And then that night, we really made the decision and asked ourselves, what's really stopping us?
Speaker A:And there really wasn't a good reason to say, we can't be doing this.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So that someday in the distant future, where we would be 50, 60, somewhere in that range, looking to retire somewhere that someday became a today, let's start seeing what this would look like to build our futures and make them move to a place that we both felt was very aligned with our values.
Speaker A:And we really wanted to know what it would be like if we built something new.
Speaker A:Things are hard.
Speaker A:Making change is very easy.
Speaker A:Things are good or look so a little difficult.
Speaker A:We both knew that this was something that if we waited, we might never make that decision until it's too late, or we could do it in 20 years.
Speaker A:But we were thinking, if we both wanted to live very creative lives the way that we want to, we.
Speaker A:Why not do it now?
Speaker A:Shift in our thinking said that transformation doesn't have to be loud.
Speaker A:It begins with a question, a little idea in your mind that could be picking at your brain for the longest time, and at some point you say, okay, why don't we just do it?
Speaker A:This is something that we can are able to do.
Speaker A:We are fortunate enough to be able to do this.
Speaker A:Why not do it?
Speaker A:So now that you know a little bit about the backstory of our big decision, let's talk a little bit how we made this happen.
Speaker A:A lot of times when we're thinking about our lives and our creative endeavors and projects that we want to take on, we ask ourselves, what is the best way to make this happen?
Speaker A:Or what is a way or, you know, the path forward?
Speaker A:From here, you have a decision that you've made.
Speaker A:You want to know what do you do to actually accomplish your goal?
Speaker A:In our particular case of our move to Costa Rica, the first thing that we did was we made a big list of all the things that we needed to do starting from that night forward.
Speaker A:And that list included contacting our realtor, listing our house for sale, emptying out our house, getting all the paperwork together, getting all the documents and all that stuff ready to go for residency.
Speaker A:Because we're applying for residency at this point, which I didn't mention, but when you're not doing it as a short term resolution and you're doing it as a long term solution, residency was really the way that we thought that we needed to approach this for fulfilling our best creative lives.
Speaker A:In this process, making the list and having all that stuff, we researched a bunch of stuff because obviously when you're making a huge move like this, it's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker A:So we looked at all of the things that we needed to do to do in order to make this move, including finding a lawyer, finding a realtor, finding places to stay before we go, making the flights, selling our cars.
Speaker A:All of this stuff is just piling up in this list and it seems like it's never ending.
Speaker A:So we started that night making a list, we went through all that stuff.
Speaker A:But as you're doing the process, you obviously encounter a bunch more tasks that you need to go through before you even can get to the end of it.
Speaker A:Through all that, we figured out we needed to declutter everything in our house, get rid of all the stuff, stage it, and make it beautiful.
Speaker A:And one of the things that we did was we created a dream board of our futures.
Speaker A:And it had everything that we were looking forward to, including selling the house, getting the plane tickets, all the delicious food and stuff we would be eating and growing.
Speaker A:Because Costa Rica is a beautiful place to grow your own food.
Speaker A:All of these things we tacked onto a board.
Speaker A:And so that way, every time we walked by it in our dining room area, we could see the vision of our future before it happened.
Speaker A:And we're really manifesting this idea that we're going to be making this move.
Speaker A:So we're turning it from a dream into a reality.
Speaker A:And through this process, we also talked about it all the time, every day.
Speaker A:What is it that we need to do this very moment from our list of things in order to accomplish our goal?
Speaker A:If you look at a big decision like this or a big task, it could be very daunting.
Speaker A:It's like, oh my gosh, there's so much involved.
Speaker A:It's too difficult.
Speaker A:I can't do this.
Speaker A:But if you say that, then it won't happen.
Speaker A:You need to say it's going to happen, here's how it's going to happen, and let's make it a reality.
Speaker A:There's an interesting story here about how we found the people in Costa Rica to help us.
Speaker A:A few months before moving, I told my brother and family that we were going to be moving to Costa Rica.
Speaker A:And as luck would have it, the very next week or maybe even a few days afterwards, he's texting me saying, oh, my client is here and he's from Costa Rica.
Speaker A:And he said, oh, text him anytime, give him a call, whatever.
Speaker A:And he wants to see what he can do to help you make this move.
Speaker A:Because he, he did the process or he's in the middle of this process of being in Costa Rica and being a resident.
Speaker A:See what he knows.
Speaker A:A couple days later, we call my brother's client and he tells us all this stuff about his journey making this move.
Speaker A:There's a lot of roadblocks or people that weren't quite as helpful as he would have wished.
Speaker A:He ran into a lot of obstacles.
Speaker A:So he recommended we talk to his realtor.
Speaker A:And so we did.
Speaker A:A few days later, we called his realtor recommendation and we hit it off perfectly well.
Speaker A:And he was been a.
Speaker A:He has been an essential part of our moving process.
Speaker A:And he recommended we talk to his friend who is a lawyer in immigration that can help us get all the stuff ready for our submission to become residents of Costa Rica.
Speaker A:Through just one announcement to the world to my brother, we were able to find our new realtor and our new lawyer.
Speaker A:We had contacted previously a few different companies and lawyers and they seemed fine, but they really seemed to be pushing the idea that we need to go for the.
Speaker A:There's different types of visas.
Speaker A:They Wanted us to go for the business investment visa, which is a very large investment, $150,000 invested into a Costa Rican company.
Speaker A:But after talking with the lawyer, she recommended that we do the rentista, which is a much smaller investments to qualify, just to make sure that you like it here first.
Speaker A:So if you're making the big investment and you end up not liking it, you're kind of stuck.
Speaker A:You have this business, you've already dumped 150,000.
Speaker A:If it doesn't succeed, where are you going to go from there, really?
Speaker A:Her recommendation was that we test the waters and see if we like it.
Speaker A:And that was what made us decide to go with her, which was the right decision.
Speaker A:After all the things that she's helped us do, including driving us to different places while in Costa Rica here to get all of our documents in a row for submission.
Speaker A:She's been amazing.
Speaker A:All of this stuff.
Speaker A:After the introductions and all the paperwork, there was a clear road from our dream in our dream board and our questions from Valentine's Day to actually, we are getting one step closer every day to making this move.
Speaker A:What I would say the biggest lesson from this, making all that happen was clarity doesn't come first.
Speaker A:Your commitment does.
Speaker A:So what does that mean?
Speaker A:Oftentimes when you have a big project like this or a vision in your mind of the future, it seems a little hazy, right?
Speaker A:It's, you know, in your mind, and it is something that is nebulous.
Speaker A:And the only way to make it into a clearer view of your vision of the future, you have to make the commitment to it first.
Speaker A:Until you make that commitment, you will never gain clarity.
Speaker A:So that is a huge thing that, that we learned in this process.
Speaker A:So I want to talk a little bit about mindset in this space, and I want to acknowledge that our fears of making this move were very real.
Speaker A:It seems from the outside, if other people were to talk to us, that we weren't afraid of anything that was going to happen.
Speaker A:But that's not true, especially on this creative front.
Speaker A:The things I had been building on the side, the podcast, my substack, all the social media things, all the people I was trying to work with, those things were all going pretty well.
Speaker A:The thing about deciding to make the move was that I had to have that take a little bit of a backseat because there's so much other stuff going on.
Speaker A:So I want to talk a little bit about some of those fears that came up while I was going through this process and what would happen in my creative journey, not just my life.
Speaker A:Journey while making this commitment and taking a back seat on it first, would I lose momentum?
Speaker A:When you're consistently creating and building and posting and being active all the time, there's a risk that you could lose all of your momentum, which it turns out I did lose a lot of the momentum that I had built up before the move.
Speaker A:But you can take a break and you can build momentum back up.
Speaker A:It doesn't need to stop just because you take a break.
Speaker A:There are reasons that we need to take a break.
Speaker A:And when you get back to things, you can get to them even stronger than before.
Speaker A:That's fear number one.
Speaker A:Fear number two, Would people forget me if I did take this break?
Speaker A:This is one of those interesting things where oftentimes, if you're working online, you don't know who really is in your audience, who's really listening, who's really following and reading along with you on your journey.
Speaker A:And it could seem like if you stop that, everyone will just start ignoring you when you try to come back.
Speaker A:But as I've slowly getting back into posting about my story, about my life again, what I've seen is that people really connect with the reasons that we, we made our decision.
Speaker A:Instead of people forgetting who I was and what I was doing, it was a way for them to see, reconnect, and even sometimes make a stronger connection with me through this process of rediscovering creativity and talking about the reasons behind my absence.
Speaker A:And the next question was, would my work fall apart?
Speaker A:This is one that has been slowly coming back over time.
Speaker A:It's not easy to get back on the horse once you've been off the horse for quite a bit of time.
Speaker A:Even if you've been doing it a little bit on the side.
Speaker A:Yes, in a sense, your work does fall off a little bit.
Speaker A:You might not be posting as consistently, you may not be putting as much time into it, but the time that you do put into it can be more intentional when you do make the decision to come back.
Speaker A:It's not that all the work fell apart.
Speaker A:It's more like, what should I be focusing on now?
Speaker A:Now that I made the change, the big change, what should I be doing in order to move forward in the best possible way, or myself?
Speaker A:All of those things were fears that I had leading up to the move, but the biggest fear that I had was actually the thing that pushed me forward the most towards actually going for it.
Speaker A:And that question was, what if I stayed in a life that looked right but felt wrong internally?
Speaker A:This was the question that we went Back to at the very beginning, it was, why can't we do this?
Speaker A:Why can't we make this move and live a more creative and fulfilling life?
Speaker A:And if we don't do it now, will we do it in the future?
Speaker A:Am I making the right decision?
Speaker A:If I were to stay and continue to live the life that looked good on paper but was conflicting with how we were feeling inside, that was the fear that actually pushed me into taking action along with my wife.
Speaker A:What I would say about fear in your creative work or in your life is growth doesn't come when you avoid your fears.
Speaker A:It comes from choosing the things that matter the most to you.
Speaker A:Whatever it is that you feel aligned with the most internally, that's where your growth is going to come in hand.
Speaker A:If you're doing things just because you're fearful of things, you don't make the big leaps.
Speaker A:As much as having intention and choosing intentionally to make things happen, fear is always a good motivator, but intention is a much greater way to grow.
Speaker A:Now that we've talked a little bit about some of the fears behind making this decision on whether or not I should or shouldn't move, I wanted to talk about making space for the change.
Speaker A:This is obviously a big, huge, enormous change in our lives, and we did need to build and create the space for making that change.
Speaker A:When I was doing all the creative work before, it was taking up a good amount of time.
Speaker A:And you can't do two big things at the same time very well.
Speaker A:You're gonna have to sacrifice something on one side or the other.
Speaker A:Without realizing it, I took a pause on this podcast.
Speaker A:Obviously this is my first one in a while.
Speaker A:And I stopped pushing myself to post so many times per week on Substack.
Speaker A:I was doing about three posts per week.
Speaker A:And I stopped trying to to make everything happen on the creative side because I knew I would be coming back to it eventually like I am now.
Speaker A:This break was something I definitely feared before I unintentionally took it.
Speaker A:But what happened was it gave me the space to breathe, go for the things that were most important, which were at this point, making the move.
Speaker A:And it gave me the space to feel again and to see more clearly my vision for the future going forward.
Speaker A:This was a much needed time to refocus, gather myself up, and go for things again in a way that feels most aligned.
Speaker A:Letting go is often the first act of reinvention.
Speaker A:In order to reinvent yourself, you need to be able to say, I'm going to let go of what I had Even though it might have been good.
Speaker A:So I might have had a very nice house, a lot of friends and family around, good job, good neighbors, all of this stuff.
Speaker A:But in order to reinvent myself in a new place in a new way, I need to let go of all that.
Speaker A:Let's talk a little bit about letting go.
Speaker A:In the process of letting go, one of the biggest things obviously to that was selling our house.
Speaker A:And this was such a huge process, such a time consuming process, especially since we condensed our move timeline down to six months.
Speaker A:Because once you start your residency paperwork, you have about six months to get it all together, or you have to redo some of that paperwork in order to reapply.
Speaker A:So we knew as soon as we started trying to get all of our paperwork ready for our move, we had to really get the household.
Speaker A:And that was such a big and daunting task.
Speaker A:A secondary aspect of selling your house and moving is that you need to get rid of all your stuff, it turns out.
Speaker A:And the funny thing is that we had built a maximalist aesthetic within the house.
Speaker A:And if you don't know what maximalism is, it's when you try to fill up the house or the walls or the space with many things in order to fill it.
Speaker A:And I think we did a pretty good job of making look very nice with all the stuff that we had accumulated and put all over the walls.
Speaker A:In our opinion, it did not look like it was cluttering the place.
Speaker A:But it turns out when you're trying to sell a house, people don't like to see your version of the house.
Speaker A:They want to see their own version of the house.
Speaker A:So we needed to get rid of all of this stuff in order to make it as as good as possible for future homeowners.
Speaker A:And there's a, there's a whole set of things that we did to get rid of all this stuff.
Speaker A:And I'm going to be talking about that a little bit more on my sub stack.
Speaker A:I don't need to be talking about it here, but just know that there was many, many things that we needed to either sell, donate or give away to friends.
Speaker A:And when we did all of this, we pretty much had, I don't know, 10 or so boxes of things that we thought we were going to bring with us on the move.
Speaker A:But what we learned when we had quotes ready and all this stuff, we thought that the importance fee for ringling, all that stuff would be waived.
Speaker A:But it turns out that you only get this fee waived if you are approved for residency.
Speaker A:So we had to make, you know, a last minute decision within the last month or so of taking those 10 boxes that we thought we were going to bring with us.
Speaker A:And we, we saw how much of our lives we could fit into.
Speaker A:Five checked suitcases, a couple of carry on suitcases, and you know, a dog carrier.
Speaker A:So from all this stuff, maximum this house, okay, 10 boxes, fine.
Speaker A:Now we're down to, you know, just a few suitcases and the carrier for our dog.
Speaker A:Through the process, we realized what is most essential and what is not in this move.
Speaker A:And every item in the house that we eventually got rid of felt like closing a chapter on our previous lives.
Speaker A:All the stuff that we didn't bring or we don't have stored temporarily, the chapter is done on those things.
Speaker A:And through this process, we noticed that decluttering your life clears up space.
Speaker A:Not only physical space in the world around you, but in your mind.
Speaker A:All of this stuff that we used to have, it's no longer an issue or something we need to think about, worry about.
Speaker A:It's now something that we can let go, say it was part of a chapter in our lives that was beautiful, but now we're on to something else.
Speaker A:So I don't know if this is apparent or not.
Speaker A:It may or may not be.
Speaker A:I forgot to say in the beginning, but we are now living in San Jose, in Costa Rica.
Speaker A:So we did move, and with that move, we didn't wait any longer, we didn't say someday.
Speaker A:We decided to trade our safety and our comfort in the lives that we were supposedly living.
Speaker A:A great life for a new adventure, a new chapter, a new creative start, new creative being.
Speaker A:A new life that, that feels less like a hustle and more like a calm, intentional living.
Speaker A:And we didn't do it to escape.
Speaker A:We did it to live a life that felt fully aligned with how we actually want to live.
Speaker A:Not the way that society thinks we should live.
Speaker A:Or what looks good on paper.
Speaker A:It's what do you want and out of life and how do you move forward in order to make that happen?
Speaker A:The boldest thing that we could do seems like a rash decision or a quick decision or something we did on an impulse.
Speaker A:But it was actually something we'd been dreaming about for years.
Speaker A:So your biggest, boldest moves are usually something that you can never let go of.
Speaker A:It's in your mind a little bit.
Speaker A:Constantly saying what if, what if, what if?
Speaker A:Instead of what if we turned it into it is what does our life look like now that we are in San Jose, that we're in Costa Rica?
Speaker A:First of all, obviously we didn't bring all of our stuff, so we live with a lot less.
Speaker A:We are now in a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment.
Speaker A:When we used to live in a three bedroom, two bathroom house, the house had a giant yard, the house had a garage, we had two cars, we had all this stuff.
Speaker A:And now this apartment was fully furnished when we came in.
Speaker A:So we had a lot of the stuff that we needed and a lot of appliances that came with it.
Speaker A:There was many things and we've only added what is most essential to our more fulfilling lives here.
Speaker A:Another thing, we spend a lot more time outside.
Speaker A:Florida in the summer is probably one of the most unbearable things as far as weather goes that you can encounter.
Speaker A:At least in the US it's hot, it's humid, it's frankly gross.
Speaker A:So here right now in San Jose, it's beautiful.
Speaker A:It is actually the opposite season wise to Florida.
Speaker A:Interestingly enough, even though it's closer to the equator, the way that the earth tilts, it's actually on the side that gets less sun happens, which is kind of interesting.
Speaker A:And with that time outside, we get to explore more, we have walking more, we feel better because we're more active.
Speaker A:When we were at home, you'd get home, you'd be tired from eight hours of work, you'd sit around.
Speaker A:But now we work a few hours, we go outside, we take a break, we come back, if we need to, we can work some more.
Speaker A:But we noticed that we're intentionally or even unintentionally making the decision to walk more, especially since right now we don't have any cars.
Speaker A:So the whole thing of not having a car and, you know, wanting to go outside to spend more time in the beautiful weather means we're spending a lot more time outside.
Speaker A:And I mentioned this a little bit before, but in the United States, there's something called hustle culture where they encourage you to always be doing all everything you can to work, you know, maximize your time, do, do this, do this, do this.
Speaker A:You know, you don't have a lot of time.
Speaker A:You know, you have to get this done.
Speaker A:And when you're hustling all the time, it can be kind of stressful, it wears you down.
Speaker A:But here we have made the intention of living our lives slower.
Speaker A:If we want to take a break in the afternoon for a few hours to go do some errands or walk around, we can do that.
Speaker A:It's not as imperative here to be hustling all the time.
Speaker A:You can live life more slowly, more intentionally, in order to make it more fulfilling.
Speaker A:And now I think it's the first time in a very long time that I've been inspired without feeling the pressure to do things all the time in order to, to make the break, to get along faster in my creative work, I feel like I can do things more intentionally.
Speaker A:I don't need to be doing this, this, this, this in order to make my dreams come true.
Speaker A:Since my dreams are already partially coming true, they're in the motions.
Speaker A:It's just now what do I want to work on that will make me feel more fulfilled?
Speaker A:Because before I thought I had to do all this stuff on the side in order to build that life that I wanted to live.
Speaker A:Because in order to live more comfortable life, you have to have the income and the space and the time to do things.
Speaker A:But when you're working out eight hours a day, you have to do it on the side.
Speaker A:Now that I'm not working that much, at least all the time for eight hours, I can be inspired to do things without feeling the need to actually do them.
Speaker A:So what you need is more presence, more, not productivity.
Speaker A:And this is only something that I'm starting to really internalize and feel now because I think being productive is something that, especially in the US has been thrown onto us.
Speaker A:We need to be productive, but we get more intentional about things.
Speaker A:You make better decisions.
Speaker A:You're not doing stuff just to feel busy.
Speaker A:You're doing things because it's the thing that you need to be doing at this moment.
Speaker A:I want to end all of this with you, and I want to talk about your journey and what you're going through.
Speaker A:And if you're questioning the things that you're doing and putting your intention in the right places.
Speaker A:First of all, even if you feel like you're not doing the right thing, know that you're not behind on what you need to be doing.
Speaker A:It can be that you've redirected your resources or thoughts and ideas into something that's not quite what you're looking to do anymore.
Speaker A:But what you are doing is you're becoming more intentional.
Speaker A:You need to be doing things to become more of who you want to be.
Speaker A:And that sounds like a whole lot of fluffy woo woo stuff.
Speaker A:But what you're really needing to focus on is who you want to be and how you want to move forward in your creative work and the dream that you've been working on and all the stuff, the grand visions, the grand ideas, the big projects, all the great stuff that you do want to work on and make Your mark on the world with.
Speaker A:They're not just random ideas that come into your head.
Speaker A:They're proof that you need to move forward with them if they're still feeling aligned with what you want to do.
Speaker A:In my instance, this would be the thought and the idea of moving to Costa Rica.
Speaker A:It's not a random idea.
Speaker A:It's something that showed that we need to be intentional and make our move.
Speaker A:What is the thing that you're dreaming about that is a signal to move forward?
Speaker A:Go ahead and do that.
Speaker A:And this feeling of discomfort and the idea that this can't be the right thing, can it?
Speaker A:This questioning in your mind and this uncomfortable feeling that you're getting is your signal to trust yourself and to move forward with that idea.
Speaker A:Because if you don't do it now, you can do it later.
Speaker A:Obviously, the thing that you're dreaming of can happen, but you need to be asking yourself, should I do it now?
Speaker A:Should I wait or make that decision?
Speaker A:And if it's the one thing that's been nagging you forever and you feel uncomfortable with it and you think you should do it, trust yourself and do it.
Speaker A:Go ahead.
Speaker A:I give you the permission.
Speaker A:If any of this stuff is speaking to you in a way that makes you feel like you should be on the right path, but you don't know how to move forward, let me know.
Speaker A:I want to help you with that.
Speaker A:This is something that I feel like I've been made to do, is to help creative people really get their biggest things done.
Speaker A:Help them get their ideas out there, get exposure, stop being afraid of making big bold decisions and just making your creative ideas really come to life and sharing them with all the people who need to see them.
Speaker A:And if you want, you can contact me at on Instagram at Standout Creative Business.
Speaker A:Or you can go to my sub stack, which is where I'll also be posting more about my journey and the lessons I've learned and all the very minor details that I didn't bring up here.
Speaker A:Just because I don't really want to take up so many hours of your time.
Speaker A:I really want to keep this into the most pertinent lessons and things that I've learned.
Speaker A:And you can learn from my journey.
Speaker A:And you can all see that at standout creative business.com substack.com and just to end this, I want to say your life can look different, your work can feel different, and you don't have to do any of this alone.
Speaker A:Let me know if you need to talk.
Speaker A:Just someone to brainstorm with.
Speaker A:If you can also visit standoutcreativebusiness.com and sign up for a session to talk with me and we can figure out what it is that you need to do to move forward with your biggest, boldest creative dreams.
Speaker A:Thanks and I'll see you on the next episode.
