There is a little known intuition secret that ratchets your success to rock star status.
It’s stunningly simple and yet, many of us continually over look it.
Bringing forth your life’s work
To accomplish great things when doing your life’s work you plan, work like a madman for months barely stopping to come up for air, then recheck the plan and execute it.
After releasing your masterpiece to market you can’t stop yourself from going back and “tinkering” with it. You tweak a bit here and then a bit there.
Exhausted, you pull a few more “all-nighters” trying to improve upon the finished product. You are exhausted but, deny yourself the rest you need and continue tinkering afraid to let go.
Don’t forget the “last step”
You left out a crucial “last step” in all recipes for success.
Here’s the “last step” in a Martha Stewart recipe for beef tenderloin:
Tent beef with foil, and let rest for 15 minutes (or up to 2 hours); slice just before serving.
Why recipes end with “let rest” before serving
After following a recipe and adding the proper ingredients you need to allow those ingredients to blend, meld and gel in order for the flavors to come together.
“Let rest” should be applied to all endeavors, not just cooking.
The staff of television shows take a “hiatus” after completing their season. Actors take time off after finishing a film project.
Rock star musicians don’t produce a song a day. They follow their inspiration and work tirelessly until an album is produced. Afterward they take time off to rejuvenate.
Creatives take breaks in between projects but, most entrepreneurs and business people don’t
After pushing yourself to create you are depleted and “empty” for a time. You need to allow your creative juices time to rest and rejuvenate before you are ready to start the cycle again.
Why we ignore that little voice that tells us to “let rest”
Our intuition nudges us to rest after a big push but, we ignore it out of fear. We fear that if we let go and “let rest” the whole project will disintegrate especially, when we don’t see immediate rock star results. Our fear of letting go and losing control overrides our intuition that rest is what is needed.
Fear of letting go is a destructive force.
Fear leads us to take desperate measures that usually make a mess of things. What we fail to realize is that sometimes results are residual, not immediate. Not unlike the roast whose flavors need time to meld a project may also take some time to meld enough to send its ripples out into the world.
To ratchet your life to rock star status – “let rest”
Take creative breaks after a big campaign to bring a new service or product to market.
Stop prodding and poking the roast after it’s done. Prodding and poking only let out the flavorful juices that make the roast delicious. Let your endeavors rest for a spell.
Let your intuition guide you to success
If we don’t rest after a big push our intuition will nag at us to do so. We are depleted and need time to rejuvenate our creativity and productivity. We may think our intuition is nagging at us only because we are tired and need rejuvenating but, it is also a call from our intuition to stop tinkering with the finished product.
Our intuition is the wisest part of ourselves and it is trying to tell us that in order for our efforts/ingredients to successfully meld together we need to step back and let nature take its course.
Take a hiatus and “let rest” to allow your creation to gel and to rejuvenate your creativity and productivity for the next big project.
Do you have hard time letting go of your creation? Can you see how walking away and taking a rest afterward can benefit your creativity and productivity?
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Angela: Hey, I enjoyed the wonderful article! I like what you said about working timelessly to finish projects then taking a rest. I rest every week, usually the sixth and seventh day of the week. I am trying to work really hard until the end of the week and then take a rest. My problem is that I don’t always work as hard as I want during the week, then at the end I don’t feel like I’ve worked hard enough so I continue working and mess my schedule/plans up.
When I look at successful artists, many work timelessly like you said to finish their products and I want to be able to work timelessly and I am getting to that point, but I think my key is being passionate about what I do because my passion is what pushes me, that and time ticking away.
Best Wishes,
William Veasley
Great meeting you William,
I completely understand. Being passionate about what you do is important. You won’t stick with something very long unless you find meaning in it and are willing to dedicate yourself to it at the expense of something else.
Working through the weekends to make up for not doing enough during the week is okay, as long as you take a break once in a while to rejuvenate.
You do need balance in your life and a social life though!
When we run on empty we don’t do our best work.
All my best,
Angela
I’ve been working straight for a week on my new book to try get done and sent off to the publishers tonight or tomorrow. I was getting the rest message when I saw your email for your new post. Thank you! I’m heading off to meet friends, go the museum and dinner. I thought about putting it off to put the final touches on it, but then I read you post and started to get a headache.
There are no coincidences! Your timing was perfect for me and probably a lot of others!!
Thank you Angela!
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Betsy,
I’m so glad I published this in the nick of time for you!
I’m glad you’re relaxing. Can’t wait to read your new book too!
xoxo,
Angela
Oh, I know! This is so hard for me. I want to keep working at it and then be done abruptly. The cooking analogy is perfect. Rice, quinoa, pizza and more are so much better with a little rest. Great post and just what I needed to hear!
Galen,
I’m so glad you resonated to the message of this post. I need to take my own advice!
xoxo,
Angela
Angela Artemis|Powered by Intuition recently posted..The Intuition Secret That Ratchets Your Success to Rock Star Status
Hi Angela,
We cannot be at our best without sufficient rest. It is commonsense however it’s more common to push beyond our limits & not listen to our bodies….more’s the pity. Thankyou for this.Rest is best.
be good to yourself
David
Hi David,
I love that – Rest is best! So right – we do we ignore our own inner wisdom?
Best,
Angela
Angela Artemis|Powered by Intuition recently posted..The Intuition Secret That Ratchets Your Success to Rock Star Status
Great advice. I also take breaks in the middle of creative projects. When I get stuck, the best thing to do is “let it rest,” do something else then come back to it later. Either while I am doing something else or when I get back to it, inspiration just comes. The answer comes.
Hi Roe,
So simple – yet so many ignore this – including me.
I’m looking forward to a nice vacation.
Angela Artemis|Powered by Intuition recently posted..The Intuition Secret That Ratchets Your Success to Rock Star Status
Perfect advice Angela – I learned to give myself many rests during the day – if I go off and do something different, I find myself open to greater ideas anyway. Now I know why – I’m making room for my intuition to kick in.
Love Elle
xoxo
Hi Elle,
I’m so glad you listen to your inner wisdom and take rests!
Angela Artemis|Powered by Intuition recently posted..The Intuition Secret That Ratchets Your Success to Rock Star Status
Love the message about becoming a rock star!
Fear is certainly a destructive force. I wrote about how it has blocked my intuition in a post this week too.
“Let rest” is a great phrase. I have found it necessary to take breaks even every now and then and especially after a ton of work has been done. The best way is tune in and see what my body needs.
Hi Evelyn,
I’m so glad you enjoyed this post and resonated to its message too.
I have been off the Internet for three days since the day Hurricane Sandy hit us. It was a rest of sorts from the Internet but, not a peaceful one. I’m playing catch up now.
Angela Artemis|Powered by Intuition recently posted..The Intuition Secret That Ratchets Your Success to Rock Star Status
Oh this hit me – like cold water waking me up. So true!! So true!!
I do find it really hard to “let rest” – but it is a necessary step. I’m going to practice this!
Hi Aileen,
I know – why don’t we think of these things sooner? A simple but necessary step! Glad you’re going to practice this.
Angela Artemis|Powered by Intuition recently posted..The Intuition Secret That Ratchets Your Success to Rock Star Status
Hi Angela, I totally do that – let it rest. I just finished my course, published it, and said,”That’s it until I’m called to go back to it again.” Honestly I wanted to start on my next project, but alas I have to turn my attention to year-end coming up for my husband’s business and get cracking on the books. NOT my favorite thing to do! But necessary, my responisbility, and I will make my head fit it for a while. I did notice that I could not start right away because my body said,”Hold up, not yet, you have some resting to do first!”
Hi Julie,
Congratulations of finishing your course! I’m sure it’s fantastic.
You deserve a rest, for sure although doing your husband’s books isn’t the break from work you were looking for. I’m glad you’re listening to your body.
Angela Artemis|Powered by Intuition recently posted..The Intuition Secret That Ratchets Your Success to Rock Star Status
One of the greatest perks of being an entrepreneur is you can work any fourteen hours of the day you like.
Really though, the flexibility to work when you are “in the zone” and stop when the zone ends is very powerful. It’s not a bad thing that the zone ends. It has to end. Don’t worry, another one will start up soon enough. But you have to listen to the zone.
Hi Kenneth,
LOL. That’s funny but, true. When you are an entrepreneur you do work harder and longer hours than regular employed folk.
But, working in the zone is the best way to work. Inspiration is very powerful!
Thanks so much for commenting. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
Best,
Angela