021 – Accomplishing More by Reducing Significance

Has anything ever become so important to you that you thought to yourself, “I can’t live without this?” Do you sometimes have trouble “Letting go and letting God?” In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares how to reduce significance and how that can help you unlock desired outcomes in your artistic career. Sponsors: Clean Slate: The most exciting and inspirational New Year live music and multi-media event you’ve ever been to. Get your tickets now, before they’re gone! Highlights: 00:17 – David’s discovery 00:34 – What does “reducing significance” mean? 01:08 – Desires are achieved in three ways 03:50 – How reducing significance works 07:04 – How does this apply to music? Transcript: Today I wanted to talk about something, I guess you could say it's maybe a little bit esoteric. But I'm always excited about sharing my new discoveries with you as well as how they can apply to your music career. So, I hope you enjoy this. I hope you find benefit in it. And today's discovery is around reducing significance. Now, I will do a little bit of work here to set this up. I'm going to lay the groundwork and create some context for you, so it makes sense. But reducing significance is quite simply… sometimes you have big goals in life and you want them to happen. And because you want them to happen so badly, they don't happen. We just become more and more significant about it. It's like, “This has to happen. Why hasn't it happened?” And then years go by, and decades go by and we're wondering like, “What am I waiting for?” In those situations, one of the best things you can do is reduce significance. And we'll talk about why that is. Now let's talk about desires here for a little bit. Desires are achieved basically in three ways. Okay. So, number one is we set a goal. And we attain them. All of these have their pros and cons, but we'll get into that as well. So, number one, we set a goal and attain them. Number two is we imagine having the thing already. Because the mind doesn't know the difference between reality and imagination, I'm not sure if you've heard that before. Assuming you don't deny your imagination, whatever you've imagined is true. Assuming you don't deny your imagination, whatever you've imagined is true.Click To Tweet And the third way to achieve a desire is we cancel the desire completely. It's just like, “God, I don't care. It doesn't need to happen. I don't want it to happen.” So, when you think about it, most people go about accomplishing using just number one, right? Brute force. “Let me just get this goal happening, I'm going to work my ass off every single day, get up at 5, go to sleep at 2, and work my butt off for 18 hours a day and get this thing happening.” And yeah, there are things that can be and have been accomplished that way. But it's usually not the quickest way. And sometimes it separates you from your goal long term. And I mean years and sometimes decades. Or they use number two. In other words, they imagine having it, but then they immediately go back to striving, like using number one brute force, go back to set goals, set more goals, make it happen, make it happen, make it happen. Now, of course, this is not a chat about don't take actions. Not at all. I’m a big believer in taking actions and I take all kinds of actions daily to move my things forward. And when I say “All kinds of actions,” usually on a to-do list, it looks like two or three things at most. But within those two or three things, there can be many things to do, so that's what I'm referring to there. In a way, we kind of undo what we did right? If we imagine having what we want to have and we can feel it, we can taste it, we can touch it, we can smell it, but immediately go back to number one… “Well, I just had a nice meditation, but let me get back to my desk and work my ass off to make it happen,