Friends,

Here’s the AUDIO for your Transformation Tuesday newsletter.

Saul Bellow said you never have to edit something you write in the middle of the night.

And Saul Bellow was right.

Because that up-at-night kind of inspiration is just like getting a download from the Divine.

It’s what I like to call a Divine Download of the right ideas and the right words at the right time — sleep schedule be damned.

You don’t have to work hard to get your Divine Downloads. They just flow to you and through you, if you let them.

What you create when in you’re in that mode is very, very good. Brilliant, even. It’s in another league of excellence from your output when you have to crank away and grind away to create a thing.

And doing your work in Divine Download Mode — which some people call the flow state — is fast. It’s incredibly efficient. Much more efficient than the work you do when you’re straining, hustling, grinding or forcing.

This year I learned to respect the process of life, to trust that it’ll bring me exactly what I need to know exactly when I need to know it. I learned this trust as a byproduct of learning how to invite that kind of inspiration to flow in, how to get into the flow state regularly, and practicing it so repeatedly that I can now trust inspiration to flow on demand, anytime I need it.

I also learned to trust the creative process in a literal sense. I made a default rule of intentionally waiting to do the deepest work on my most creative, most inspired projects — the ones that are calling me to do them— until they’re fully ripe in my mind and in my spirit.

Sometimes I wait until I almost can’t resist working on the thing anymore. Then, when it’s ripe and ready?

The download flows, unmistakably. Unstoppably. I apply butt glue and let it flow. I invite inspiration, then I act on it when it comes. That’s my role in this thing.

Working like this is like everything you’ve ever heard anyone say about being in the flow state. It’s delightful. Expansive. You’re clear. Productive. Prolific. You lose track of time. Distractions can’t even touch you. You’re just creating for the joy of it, for the rush of the process.

Dots connect. So much flows out, with incredible ease because: Divine Download.

It ain’t all about you. It’s bigger than that.

And the output isn’t strained. It’s wonderful. Molto bene. If I do say so myself.

When I’m creating in this way, whether I’m writing a book, an email or a strategic plan, I envision that all that creative power and delicious energy is downloading into me, pouring through me, onto the page or the slide or into the email, and then flowing directly into the spirit of whoever ends up reading it.

I envision my reader getting a contact high from my own energy, right off the page.

To be clear, this way of creating isn’t as passive as it might sound. Every morning I wake up and do the delicious Inner Work of sitting, free-writing, inviting what my friend Artie would call “golden threads” of inspiration and capturing them, then acting on them and juicing them for all they’re worth when they come, trusting them to keep coming until the project makes it to its divinely intended target audience — which could be millions, or could be a single, perfect person.

That’s not up to me.

So on any given day, I might be waiting to work on an particular project, the kind of waiting I used to call procrastination. But every day I’m working on or creating something, with the leverage of this inspired action.

The reframe I learned this year especially applies to those of you who are actually very productive and get loads of things done, but maybe not everything you want, and maybe not as quickly as you want.

And it especially applies to people who identify as beings of upliftment: people who know they are on this planet to help lift other people up using whatever talents they’ve got.

For people like us, I’ve learned that procrastination is almost always one of three things:

• Preparation. You’re getting ready. Life is getting you ready. You’re collecting the skills or growing the thick skin or receiving the information or becoming the person you need to be to do the thing that is calling you.

Haven’t you ever struggled with a project, decided to change the subject and met the just-right person or found the just-right data point you needed while you were out on a walk or at the gym? Divine Timing and Order are so real, and so perfect, always. (I teach how to trust this in the School of Upliftment.)

• Processing. Your brain is connecting the dots of seemingly disparate knowledge and inputs to create the original, inspired thoughts it will create, given the chance. You can’t force this to happen, but it helps if you stop overthinking things and literally change your scene, take a break or change the subject, which releases any inner resistance you might have had.

That’s why we get brilliant ideas in the shower, right before bed or while we’re on a run. When overthinking and Inner Resistance are at their lowest, our Divine Downloads can flow in.

• Plugging in. Your personal, spiritual Self is plugging into the Divine extension cord of energy. That’s what’s happening when I sit and meditate or write in the morning. I’m reconnecting to the source of Infinite Intelligence and Creative Power that runs the show.

Think of yourself as teaming up, partnering up with the forces of Spirit, love, transformation, human evolution or whatever other, higher force is calling you and guiding you to do whatever it is that you’re feeling called to do.

Doesn’t knowing what procrastination really is take the pressure off?

You’re being prepared.

Your brain is having the process it needs to have for your Inner Genius to come forth.

All the forces of this Universe are teaming up with you, lighting up the path for you, lining up the people and places and things and opportunities and collaborative components you need to move forward in life more easily, with better results than if you were doing all the hard work on your own.

But note one thing: I did say procrastination is almost always one of these things.

Occasionally, every once in awhile, it can be something else. Something students of The Hero’s Journey might have heard described as “refusing the call”.

Sometimes, when you’re procrastinating, you are literally refusing one of your callings. (Note: callings, multiple.)

All heroes do it, so don’t worry. It’s part of the process.

I’ll share more about that soon.

Question: How does this reframe land for you? Resonate? Not so much? Hit reply and let me know.

Head up + heart out,

TNN

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