Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

A friend reached out to me recently who'd had a baby, very happy news, but she felt really off

track with her creative work.

And this woman's an artist, a beautiful creator, but she's been

out of the loop, so to speak. So the first thing I said to her was, go really easy on yourself.

You just did the coolest, biggest, hardest thing. Hello? We didn't need to pressure ourselves

to get back to who we were pre-baby. Even though I don't have

children, I'm very aware of this. It's obvious to me. But she was like, you know, can I have your

help? Like maybe it's a routine thing or a scheduling thing. And look, I know this girl. Okay.

She's organized. She's high achieving. She's incredibly gifted. But I shared with her what I'm

sharing with you now. I said this isn't about routines and schedules. It's not about that. Success

isn't about grinding harder. It's about mastering your inner world first. This is what has taken me years to

learn. People, you know, say that success is hard work. And I think whenever I have that image,

I think about people in factories like breaking their back, right? Working hard, working hard,

working hard, working hard. But we know that

this isn't true. Hard work doesn't equal success because if that were true, a lot of hardworking

people would have a lot more to show for it. The real work, the hard work that comes to success,

is that inner world. It's invisible.

It's your thoughts. It's your energy. It's the identity that you align with. It's your alignment

with the real you. This is how results follow and flow with far less effort.

It's interesting to me because people think something's really hard, but the task itself,

they know they could do it, put on a timer, do it in 20 minutes. It's the thoughts about

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