Turn Fear Into Fuel With The 3-Column God Trick | Rachel Platten

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0:37I thought that if I had children, it would steal my creativity, that my creativity would suffer. And what I have learned is that it could not be more, it could not be less true. Really? It is the opposite. My creativity has expanded so much. I mean, think of the act of creating a child. It is the most creative you will ever be in your life, right? You are literally creating a human. You are so tapped in to divine, to creation. To magic. To magic. Once you create a human, you can create anything. My songs flowed so easy as if God turned on a faucet that just never got shut off. And creating for me is so much more easy and natural and flows.

1:23I mean, first of all, the range of what I feel from becoming a mom, as we said earlier, is so much more wide and wild. And just life experience in general. experience. So I have so much to pull from. I mean, I can like harness and transmute all that terror and grief and rage. I told you I went down and witnessed and I can turn them into this beautiful art that still actually sounds joyful somehow. There's joy in the pain that I'm singing about. But how do you have the energy and the capacity to create? You might have ideas and like it might flow when you have energy and time, but when you're a full-time mom and even if your your kids are in school or you have daycare or nanny support every now and then, your babysitters for a few hours a day, you're still thinking about your kids all day long.

2:10You're still, your body's still responding to healing after a first few years. You're still need energy. You're up all night because your child, what's the better? They sleep with you and they're kicking you all night or whatever it is. It's beautiful, but it's also challenging. Like how do you have energy during the day to be a full-time mom, a full-time creator and bringing the money to support family. Well, first of all, my husband has since started working for me and now is a partner. Yes. And so it's amazing. He's bringing more income in from having come in and transformed my business. Sure, sure, sure.

2:43So it's not all on me anymore. And that has been a gigantic relief. It's big. Yeah, it's amazing. But for women that just want to generate money, they want to make money also as well as being moms. I have two things. I have two thoughts on this. one is I want you to think about the busiest time in your life. How productive were you when you only had 30 minutes to be productive? Very productive. Versus when you had nothing going on and you had all day. Very productive. But there's a time you're going to crash at some point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're doing that every day for months. I crashed this morning.

3:13But Taylor taught me, Taylor Swift taught me, when Fight Song was exploding and we were like, and I met her and I was like, I don't know what I'm doing. I have to be in Paris and then Japan and then I don't know how to do this. And she said, you aren't going to have days off. You are going to have moments off. You're going to draw all your energy back in in moments at a time. So that's one thing. Like I can't look right now at my calendar. My calendar is insane. I cannot look at it for the next three months. It is packed every day. It's insane. But this is a season of life. It's a season. It's three months.

3:44Exactly. Exactly. You're all in. I'm all in. My husband and I are all in. We have everyone around us supporting us. You're saying yes to everything. My team is like, yep. So that's where I'm at right now. It's just a season. I've been doing this long enough to know now this isn't forever. This is right now. I also have incredible moments off and days off and weeks off because of the career I chose. So there will be a lull and I will get to be around my babies all day long and it will be delicious. Okay. That's my one thought. And then the other thought I have is that my spiritual practice has been absolutely essential in keeping my energy up.

4:19I didn't have this tool before. I didn't have this deep connection to God. before. And now that I do, I literally give it to God. I literally say, you do it. I write. I want to show you what I write. I want to show you. I make a check mark for God. And before a show, I do it before something I'm scared of before a day, before an intense performance. I literally write a list of what I'm scared of. I made this up. I don't know if this is like, people are going to listen and be like, what the hell is she talking about? But I want you to imagine three columns. The first column, I write down all my fears and all my worries and all my stress.

4:52The second column, I write down my job and I write. Like, what do you mean? Like, okay, I'll tell you, I'll give you an example. Um, let's say I was doing one about the Lewis podcast. I'm nervous. I love Lewis. This podcast is huge. I want to do a good job. I want people to, I want to come off well. I want people to go listen to my music. I want to be successful. Right. What is my job? My job, what God tells me my job is, is to breathe, be in the moment give it to him and have fun that's it that's my job and then i write the third column what's god's job and on god's column is everything everything make it go so well make me adorable hilarious funny charming you do it and then like make it the most successful make lewis love it and like whatever god has all this to do and then i make a checkbox for him and i crack up and i write i'm like right on it go god go yay god don't worry you can do it god and i cheer him on it's like ridiculous it's like so ridiculous and then i crack up because i look at my job versus god's job and i'm like oh bro you have a lot of work to do i'm gonna go chill but good luck to you and then i come back and i remember to check him off and i give him a pluses and i'm like very good job and i like give him stickers and he has not failed me ever

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