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I want to bring to light this really interesting notion of the place in which your work is born. I have made lots of creations in my time, whether they are courses or retreats or conferences. Each time, the state of mind I’m in, the place or space, the environment with which I created these things, has an influence on what the actual result is.

I mean, it wouldn’t make sense if you’re in a dark room with completely closed doors and no natural light and you were trying to paint a painting, it would be very different to a huge light filled, ambient, sound filled environment and painting a painting, right? So similarly, when we are creating in our work, we have the option of creating from different spaces and different places.

I see it all the time that business owners are burnt out. They stay in the same office, they get back and forth to the same office, or they’re stuck in their home office, and they’re doing all the things on the side, like the laundry and the dishes and all the other things. Then they’re trying to create something and engage with their audience or get people on board for it. But they’ve created from the same old place, the same old thoughts and the same old limitations and the same old, same old, same old. They then wonder why that doesn’t feel as attractive, whether it’s on the page or online or as we’re discussing it with people.

More recently, I was in the UK, and while I was over there, my absolutely, positively favourite moment was a particular time in the afternoon and I was soaking in the stunning spring sun along the Thames. It was in that moment when I realised I was completely uncontactable. I left my phone in my hotel because I knew that everybody on the other side of the world, all of the people I know and love, were safe and asleep in bed. They had no idea where I was. I had no attachment to the outcome of the afternoon. I felt this sense of wholeness in my being that was a sense of presence that I hadn’t felt in ages. It was that moment that kicked off the next two days worth of divine downloads that felt like all these wonderful ideas and notions.

For instance, the new NatExpo Liftoff that’s coming up in February 2024, the ideas for my upcoming retreat at Lord Howe Island in October 2023, and the next six months just came through me all of a sudden. But I don’t think it would have come through me had I not allowed for the space to change my environment. Another thing I hear a lot from business owners, especially women, is that we wander along co-dependent in a way, but not in a bad way. Just stick with it.

It’s an observation that we are consistently aware of where every human, animal, plant, and lost sock is in the house. We’re attached to all of the things and the time frames with which all of these things need to coalesce.

  • When does that sock need to find one of our kids so that they can go to school and do that particular thing that’s needed on that particular day of the week?
  • Where will the dog or the cat be at that particular time?
  • Do I have enough fuel in the car?

There’s this dependency, and it’s a glue feeling that we’re attached to all of these things at any given point in time. This takes up bandwidth, just like your wifi. 

Just like the wifi, we have a certain amount of bandwidth, and when we are entangled with all of those other beings in our field, and a new idea wants to come through, it’s got a bit of a tough time pushing out the other stuff, right? So, it’s one of the reasons I really love immersive experiences, whether it’s me going to the UK or running conferences or hosting retreats at the end of my bigger mastermind program, Maverick. This is because immersion creates space and an untangling – a detangling of you from all of those other things.

The thing is, we make ourselves immeshed in our lives, but we also have the opportunity to let our lives breathe without us. It’s an amazing opportunity for our other loved ones to take care of our household, the things that are important to us, so that the new ideas can come through and they can be birthed, because there’s space and time to do that. It’s one of the reasons I’m running NatExpo Liftoff in Sydney, so that everyone can actually physically get out of their places and spaces and come and be there in February if you’re a new practitioner. It’s also one of the reasons I love running the leadership retreat in Lord Howe Island.

Lord Howe Island is a beautiful, stunning and remote island off the Coast of New South Wales in Australia. We have to go off the island every day to connect in with the internet, and then leave again, and then have the space to create and mesh with our ideas and nature, and walk, and soak up present moments. It is stunning! Honestly, there isn’t another place that I’ve actually ever been quite like it. And when you are creating from that type of space, inspiration abounds, nature really takes over and everything has magic to it.

I also have a Maverick Retreat, and we’re doing that in Indonesia this year at the end of the mastermind. There is nothing quite like getting out and about and out of our everyday hum drum, bandwidth filling stuff and then returning back into it with a new sense of awe and a pair of fresh eyes to look at things.

I hope this blog has been beneficial to you or someone else you know. And if it has, please share it! I would love to see you at any of our upcoming immersive events or invite you to take the time out that you need to detangle yourself and get that fresh new perspective and create from a different environment.