Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Here is a truth that nobody tells you, my friends, okay, whenever you are creating anything,

whether it's a fancy meal, whether it is an online course, whether it's a podcast,

whatever it is that you are building, creating, working on right now, this is what matters.

When you want to create something beautiful for the sake of it. Like the art is the work, the outcome is

the work. This is the joy. This is the point. When you care about what it is that you're

creating to create the highest and best work, that's wonderful. That is clean energy. So for example, let's stick with a fancy meal for the point of

this episode today. Imagine if I'm cooking a three-course meal for friends that I really love and I just

want to pour my heart into it and have it be really special. That's one thing. That's gorgeous.

That's creating. That's me being in sync and having

fun. But as soon as I turn my focus or attention to what will people think, is this good enough?

Have I messed it up? Am I even ready for this? Who am I to be so bold as to think that I'm Ina

Garten?

That is where the work gets diluted.

When we let go of who do we think we are on all these questions and this feeling of self doubt coming back to it, looking at it, anticipating what could go wrong,

anticipating people not liking it, anticipating, could go wrong, anticipating people not liking

it, anticipating, oh my gosh, what are people going to think when I don't succeed at this thing?

When we focus on that, we lose all of our creative power. We lose our energy. We lose our enthusiasm.

But letting go of that, just focusing on creating the highest, best, most beautiful thing,

that returns your attention back to creation, back to love, not fear.

And this is what creation recognizes.

This is how gorgeous things come to be in the world. But because

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