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26. Due Dates

26. Due Dates

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 In this episode of Wild Permission, Alexis shares her method for turning inspired ideas into reality. She explores the power of acting quickly on projects, creating “due dates” or deadlines, and nurturing your ideas like a pregnancy—so you can stay in the energy of creation and bring your visions to life.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Oh, welcome back! I just feel so grateful and honored to get to be a voice in your ear every week—or, if you're binging on me, maybe you're listening to everything all at once. Today, I wanted to pop on and share with you something that I have found to be really helpful for me.I do a lot of projects. I do a lot of things. And I tend to try to do them quickly: get the idea, implement the idea. The reason for that is because when I feel really inspired, that's when I feel the energy of this project really vibrant and alive. And I don't know about you, but when there is something vibrant and alive in me—an idea, a project—the quicker I implement it, the more I am able to sustain that excited energy.We certainly don’t have to be in a heightened energy state to make things happen. But I noticed that for me, if I'm able to stay in motion with the project, it tends to feel better as I implement it.If an idea comes to me and I think to myself, "Oh, I'll get around to that someday," or "Maybe that's a project for a few months from now," it's likely that project will never come to fruition. However, if an idea comes to me and I'm able to quickly turn it around, it feels vibrant in my body instantly. An idea comes, and you're like, "Oh my gosh, I love that so much." And we keep that energy and vibrancy alive—then other people feel that from me.The way I’m able to keep that vibrancy and energy alive is I try to create a deadline or a birth date for this idea—just like when a baby is going to be born, there’s a due date. We have a bit of an idea of when we're going to meet this person, when the baby is going to be born.When I can create that deadline, and it’s a really hard deadline—like if I can be on somebody's podcast and say, "I have this thing coming out and here's the date"—if I'm able to coordinate that with somebody else and really make it a public declaration of, "Here's when this thing is going to come to fruition," it helps me stay on track.For instance, when I was in the art comp in London at Kellogg Lane, I knew there was a deadline for when the art needed to be completed and submitted. I told people I was submitting art to this show. I told myself. I stayed in that energy of excitement so I could complete it for that deadline. I submitted it, and then I was accepted.And now there's a new deadline: the art needs to be delivered by the state. Then there’s a new deadline: voting for the contest ends September 7th. Staying in that excited energy gets me to each next point.Because I'm able to create deadlines or commitments for myself, I know I have somewhere that I'm moving toward, and I know that I can look at it and say, "Yes, I completed it. This idea was birthed out into the world." And those deadlines—especially when I’m able to share them publicly—really create for me a sense of moving toward something and actually getting there.I know for myself that I also tend to desire intensity. I desire intensity. And when I pay attention to that and remember, "Hey, you really desire intensity, and sometimes it doesn’t serve you," I’m able to make sure I don’t save the project until right before the deadline. That’s procrastinating, right?But everything we do has a reason. So if I know I crave intensity in my system, and that's something I thrived on in the past but don’t want to be like that now, then I’m able to stay in the energy of creation in a sustainable way and know that craving is there—but I don’t need to let it take over.I want to stay in the energy of the excitement of creation, the pregnancy stage, and have a deadline, the due date, and stay in that feeling of creating something, birthing something, and being excited about it. While I’m doing all that, I want to notice in myself where I’m inclined to seek intensity. Procrastinating certainly gives us intensity, right? Now we’re two days before the deadline and have to scramble, scramble, scramble.The magic of looking at your projects as a pregnancy, a gestation period, means we consider nurturing ...
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