Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

When I interviewed Sarah Blakely for Marie Claire magazine, she said to me, one of the things that I remember most from our interview is that she loves to drive to work where she lives in Atlanta,

drive to the Spanx offices. If you don't know Sarah Blakely, she's one of the first female

self-made billionaires in America. She created Spanx, many other products now too. And she said

that she would drive to and from work. It was one of her favorite times to just be alone, right,

turn the radio off,

be alone with her thoughts, connect with herself. I think most people don't spend nearly enough time

alone, by the way, to come back to our center, to come back to our own steadiness. But she said

she loves that drive. She doesn't rush it. She loves to be alone. And a question she asks herself

over and over again when it applies to significant things, when it applies to perhaps more minor

things, is this. She asks herself, why? Why am I creating this? What is this for? Why am I doing it this way? Why this team? Why here? Why now?

When was the last time you asked yourself why you do what you do? Why are you going on that trip? Why do you have the job you have?

Why are you in that relationship? I find that when something's really right and made for me,

the answer is so simple. It's like, I don't even need to answer why. It just makes so much sense.

I think that when we ask why, our ego can be revealed. And this is actually very helpful,

because if we look at the ego is essentially anything that sees us as separate, separate from other people, separate from our creator, all about us, right?

Our ego is about us, how we self-identify our image.

And if we look beyond the ego, right, our permanent presence, our spirit, our soul, our consciousness,

the thing that never dies, I find that when I ask why I'm doing something, I'm feeding one or the

other. I'm feeding the love and creativity I have in my body, in my soul, just like everybody else,

just like everybody else does, or I'm feeding my ego.

And there is a distinct, powerful difference in feeling as we pursue these.

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