Create with Ease Using Co-Creation
Something different happens when we are spirit-led. Many years ago, I was sitting in a café, working on my vision. I had a great product but didn’t know how to distribute it. My spirit led me to this particular café in San Francisco where I was just hanging out. This seemed very unproductive but I was trusting the nudges of spirit. All of a sudden, I looked up and a woman is crossing the street in front of me. She is carrying a giant fixture full of jewelry. I heard that small subtle voice say,go up and talk to her. It seemed so random but I followed it anyway. I ran across the street and asked her, “What are you doing with all that jewelry?” She answered, “I distribute it”. I told her that I was a product designer and the rest is history. She became my VP of Sales selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of my product designs.
Life, however, happens and we often don’t make the time to listen to that small subtle voice of spirit that can lead us to our greatest life experience. This is why we need to apply tools to make sure it is woven into the very fabric of our everyday life. One of my favorite tools to make this happen everyday is The Co-Creator To-Do List. Most of us have our daily to-do list, whether it is in our head or we write it down. This is a similar list but the intention behind it is very different.
You don’t have to do it all yourself. One of the great things about being spirit-led is you become a co-creator. Co-creation does things for you even quicker and better than you could ever imagine. All those to-do's floating around in your head, not to mention your vision that you need to make more time for, you put on The Co-Creator To-Do List. This is a way that you and Creator can work together to make it all happen. Yes, you and Creator can work together. Now that is a powerful team. You will take your Co-Creator To-Do List and discern which items on the list you absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, will do today. This means only what you will do, not what you plan to do or think you can do. It may only be one or two things and this is ok. You place those things on the “Me” side and everything else, including your vision, goes on the “Creator” side. Your intention is that Creator will help you do the rest. This exercise requires discernment, trust and faith. If you are feeling overwhelmed or just want to increase your capacity to co-create, this is the tool to use.
How-to Create The Co-Creator To-Do List
To create your list, you make two columns - the first is labeled "Creator" and the second is labeled "Me". Everything that you need to do, want to do and don't want to do, from picking up the dry-cleaning to writing that book, goes on the "Creator" side. Yes, you are giving it all to Creator. On the "Me" side, you write all the things you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are going to complete that day - and nothing more. Guess what, you get to check it off at the end of each day and go to sleep feeling complete, accomplished and good about yourself. Isn’t that a nice change of pace? The "Creator" side eventually begins to get done, sometimes miraculously and other times, practically (by slowly moving one thing at a time to the "Me" side). Never underestimate the power of co-creation (which is ultimately reinforced by this practice). Recently I put anelliptical machine on my "Creator" side and a week later someone at a party asked if I knew anyone who wanted a free elliptical machine. Thanks, Creator. Now I have time to work-out (I get to cross something else off my list!)
As we use The Co-Creator To-Do List on a daily basis we find we begin to have time for the things that really matter to us. Our vision no longer takes a back seat because our spirit is driving the car.
