building that practice for the sense of peace, the sense of connectedness that it gives you,

and then trusting when the time is right, you're going to be led to the right place because

you're putting in all the necessary legwork to get there. That's when magic can happen.

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Hi guys.

Welcome back to big conversations.

This episode topic, I'm just going to get right into it, is actually kind of funny

to me because in itself was the inspired action for today's podcast episode. So you've known it by the title by now. It's all

about how to receive inspired action, how to receive ideas, especially when you really need them.

And last night when I was falling asleep, I was like, oh shoot, I need to come up with like a podcast

topic. And I'm really a fly by the seat of your pants type of person. So you guys know that like I

will wait literally until the last minute and then see like what podcast episode is kind of like on my mind and on my heart. And it usually becomes like really obvious around the time that I'm recording. So I was thinking about it last night and I set my intention. Okay, I bet I'm going to come up with it sometime tonight. Like I'm going to wake up from my sleep and have an idea or I'm going to think about it in the morning or as I'm falling asleep. And right then I was like, interesting. I bet that would be useful for people to know. Like how do I command an idea to come to me, command some inspiration to come to me? And what is my process with it? Because I've also been on the other side of things

where you really force yourself to come up with ideas, right? Like your content batching or you're

brainstorming for something. And so there's a lot of like forcing it. And what I mean by force is like,

it's not even necessarily forcing brainstorming, but it's when you're like deep in the strategy of it

rather than the feeling of it. And this really has vibes of the podcast episode that I did on how I do like more of an

energetic strategy in my business as opposed to a business strategy. So a lot of it is like leading

by feeling, leading by like sometimes last minute inspiration and trusting where it leads,

which I know I can imagine like Virgo's, Virgo placements listening to

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