Transcript: Planning Your Life & Business From Your Intuition & Energy

Planning Your Life & Business From Your Intuition & Energy

Whitney (00:00)

I know that there’s been a day in your life where you just sat there and checked stuff off of your to-do list, kind of like in zombie mode, where if you’ve ever seen the dark crystal, it’s like you’re just staring at the to-do list where you’d be staring at the crystal and it just sucks your life force. Well, today we’re gonna be talking about stopping that and planning your life and business from your intuition and not what your logical mind says you need to do, so stay tuned.

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Welcome to Spiritual and Ambitious. I’m your host Whitney McNeil. I’m a certified medium and spiritual teacher, and I help spiritual and ambitious souls just like you live your life purpose through your career and attract abundance by connecting into your intuition and spirit guide. Let’s get spiritual and ambitious.

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All right, with no further ado, we’re going to talk about planning your life and business from your intuition. So what I wanna talk about is more so looking at the tasks that you have to do every day and the tasks that you have to do through business as energy. Now, if you’re listing, you’re most likely a highly sensitive person, whether you maybe claim that title or not, you’re sensitive to energy. So I’m gonna just invite you to think about what if you planned your day from your energy highs and lows instead of mindlessly checking things off. When we mindlessly check things off, we waste a lot of time and energy and so if you have a task to do at 3:00 PM but your energy would be better suited for a different task. Why not rearrange it, right? I truly believe that you have to be an energetic match for the things that you are doing because we’ve all been there and if you half-ass something, it suck. Be honest there. Why not show up fully to what it is that you want to do? So every morning I get up and I connect in and I ask spirit for the tasks that I need to do that day. So I’m actually recording this podcast episode on a Sunday, like I do not work weekends, but I felt like this is what you need to do. This is when you have the best energy. Now, I actually had thought about recording this podcast episode yesterday and I woke up and felt kind of crappy like, Whitney, you’ve been doing a lot of big energy tasks and you just really need to rest. So I did, and I focused on what I felt energetically aligned to instead of what I had on my calendar. Now, I’m totally a fan of rearranging tasks.

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As long as you get them done by, you know, the deadline. Let’s be real. We live in a world where we have an actual deadline for things. When you’re a business owner, sure you can move around some of the deadlines, but if you work with a team and have projects like, I gotta get this podcast episode over to my editor at some point if I want it to be live on Wednesday. So for me, it’s really helpful to know, hey, this is the very last time that I can do X, Y, Z, and it gives me all this wiggle room between the beginning to the end. It’s like, hey, I thought I was gonna do this on Tuesday, but if I can’t, I can remove it to Wednesday. I think that this way truly is best for business owners or if you wanna live your life purpose through your career. It’s really important to show up as your authentic self.

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So if you are trying to do something and you are not feeling it a hundred percent, it’s not the best case. So talking to your guides and finding out what your energy is designed for that day and where it would best, let’s say accent, the task is going to be best. So if I’m feeling really tired and kinda like, ugh, then I’m probably not going to want to record a podcast episode. My energy is gonna be like, hello everybody, how are you? And I can try to fake it, but y’all are gonna know, like your energy is sensitive. You’re gonna be like, what’s wrong with Whitney today? Her podcast episode sounded kind of weird or maybe you don’t even put it together, but when you listen to me, you could go, hmm, something felt weird. I don’t know what it is. Well, you don’t want to convey that energy to people.

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So really working into alignment. But I know you’ve already started to think, well, what about those commitments I have with clients and meetings and that kind of stuff? While I’m hundred percent am a person that doesn’t wanna be flaky and I try to wanna bust that stereotype of people that are interested in spiritual things and are quote-unquote, woowoo, you know, it could be kind of flaky or ungrounded. Part of my mission is to really bring a more grounded approach to that, so I’m always super hypersensitive to wanna make sure that I commit when I commit, I do the things, but here’s a couple words of wisdom around your clients and all that stuff. Now, if you’re in a place where you’re not feeling well or sick or you’re just totally drained and tired, I do think it would be best to reschedule. I’m one of those people where I’m like, I am not missing this appointment unless I’m really feeling bad.

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So that’s kind of my rule of thumb. It’s like if I’m really feeling like it’s going to be a disservice to my client or it will be a disservice to the person I’m gonna meet with, then I’m gonna make sure that I reschedule, so I have to really balance the scales there. It’s like if I show up, will we make progress or are we not going to make progress if I show up for this meeting? Is my brain fried or would it be better to schedule for another day? So that’s one of those indicators where I really ask that. But I also ask my spirit guides, hey, if it’s for the highest and the best, can we keep the meeting or is there a way where you could kind of help reschedule things? And I have seen it time and time again where my spirit guides just rescheduled the meetings on the books and it just kind of magically happens the way it needs to.

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But there are those times where you absolutely have to show up for a meeting or whatever it is and you still might really wanna be doing something else, but you’ve already made that commitment. So in those times, I’ll ask my guides, hey, how can I shift my energy to be in full presence for this person and knowing that I can then do this other thing that I feel really excited for later? This happens a lot with spiritual people, especially business owners, where we love to get really excited about this idea and we feel super inspired and when the time rolls around to do it, we’re like, eh, because we are so open to many different ideas and our attention span might be a little bit short. So let’s say you’re trying to plan a retreat and it’s gonna be 10 months from now, and then when 10 months get here, it’s like, eh, I dunno if I wanna do it.

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Well, unfortunately, there’s a lot of people out there that are just like, yeah, I’m just gonna cancel. To me, that’s flaky. If you have committed to something and you have really told everyone you’re gonna do it, I truly believe you gotta honor it. So that’s what I’m saying is how can I shift my energy to be in full of presence knowing that I’m never gonna do this again or knowing that I’m gonna feel such relief after this is done. You created it and you felt inspired in the first place to do itn and even though your energy is now in the future, that doesn’t mean that you get to just say, I’m done. Now we all have free will, and yeah, you’ve got the right to do it, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it. What happens is business owners will end up being in the future and we are thinking so much about the future.

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This happens with non-business owners too. It’s just if you’re spiritual and ambitious, it’s like, what am I gonna do? I’m ready to do the next thing. Now I’m onto the next project. Trust in the process and bring yourself back into the present moment. When you’re living each and every day in presence, that is where you can truly make the most impact and you can truly be in alignment with the things that light you up and the things that do not light you up. So for instance, my husband will ask me, hey, what do you want for dinner tonight? And normally I say, I don’t know until I’m hungry which drives him crazy because he is a planner. Now I’m the planner in certain aspects. I like to kind of see out into the future see what I’m gonna feel, and especially, I love planning travel. I think it’s really important.

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But once I’ve planned the travel, when I’m on the trip, I’m open and then what happens is my husband every day, what are we doing today? I’m like, I don’t know, let’s just let kind of spirit happen and see what we do. So like I’ll plan in advance, but I allow lots of space during the trip to make sure that we’re doing what our most line to because if I try to schedule a day where I say, hey, let’s just relax today. I might have so much energy where I wanna go on a hike or I wanna go see the sights. And if I’ve planned a day where I do wanna go on a hike and see the sites, I might feel like I’m so exhausted and tired, maybe I have travel fatigue and I need to adjust to the time zone. I don’t know.

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I think it’s really important to be in your energy. Now, one of the questions I’ll get is, but if you’re tuning in intuitively, can’t you just tune in to how you’re gonna feel in the future that day? Well, technically it’s possible. You’re a changeable being. So when you’re giving readings to somebody, the future is based on what their spirit guide can come up with and it’s based on that person’s vibration rate and the choices they’ve made in the past. But it does not mean that we’re going to be able to predict every single thing about how their energy’s gonna feel that day because we have a zillion billion choices. We can choose to work late. We can choose to help somebody out. We can choose to eat certain foods. We can choose to take an opportunity to see a friend and drink lots of wine, and we may have some health stuff going on too.

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So really being present in the moment and taking a breath in and out to make the most aligned choices. So yes, you can kind of forecast into the future if you’re really wanting to know like, hey, spirit, can I get like a roundabout timeline or you know I feel like in July I’m really gonna be working on my book. So I’ll kind of just look at the year and say, okay, intuitively, I’m kind of feeling like June’s gonna be really heavy month for me, like a lot of projects. July, I think I’m gonna take some time off, then I’m gonna get back into working in August and then I’m gonna do X, Y, Z, and X, Y, Z and I think I’ll travel again in November, like I just told you my current 2022. But you have to make room for, let’s say, the unplannable, the things that spirit is going to delight and surprise you with the opportunities they’re gonna bring to you that you don’t know yet because they haven’t quite worked out all the details.

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So you cannot know all the things. If you knew all the things, there would be no point in living. You would not learn lessons. You would not have choices which would be freaking awful. So you can look at a large overview of what you would like to work on and what you’re thinking, including retreats, including the offers that you have with your clients, including when you’re gonna raise your prices and so forth and so on. Now, let’s break it down. This project is going to be due by what date? So now we have a certain number of days to actually get there. Now I’m gonna let myself be really open with what tasks I’m going to work on to get me there. So you can come up with the tasks, you can come up with your main goal, and then you need some space to let your body do what it needs to do.

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So lean into how your body feels and what your energy is in the most alignment with. I actually used to know a friend who planned his entire life like this to the point where I just didn’t think he could operate it. So for instance, with meetings, even like if I wanted to say, hey, can we meet and schedule a time for me to come out to talk with you? He would actually say to me, no, but you can just show up and if I’m here, I’m here, and if I’m not, I’m not. And I was like, uh-uh, no, I can’t do that and I really don’t think that that’s a really good way to plan your business or life so let’s have a grounded approach with the spiritual. That is who we are. We are literally physical bodies and we are here on the earth playing and we tend to have a finite amount of energy each day because we live in a physical body.

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I mean, we have energy, but that energy needs to go inward to recharge us and then when we have replenish that, then it can go outwards to give our message to the world and that kind of stuff and I think it’s really important that we also make sure that we are grounded and we make space for the things that are important to us. So for making space to talk to people, to make sure that we have meetings, that’s gonna be important. If you want, let’s say to have your book published which I’m working on right now. So I better make sure that I have time to meet with those people that can help make it happen, right? So that means we need to commit to days and times. That does not mean that it’s set in stone. We can change and we can shift but you’ve already heard my thoughts on that and how I make the shifts. All right, when I come back from this quick break, I’m gonna be talking to you about how your intuition can help your business grow in your life, be more abundant.

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Thanks for listening. You know, in this episode, we’re really talking about alignment and how aligned that we can be with our business and our life, and I actually have a program with people who are seriously committed to aligning their intuition, their purpose, their abundance, their life, and their business. I work with them consistently and we do something each week. If you wanna learn more about that, you can actually jump on the waitlist over at messengerofspirit.com/aligned. Okay, so we’ve talked about really aligning the task that you have to do with your energy and when we follow our intuition and our energy alignment, we can grow our business and we can have a more abundant life so let’s just break this down for an example. There’s been many times where I’ve had on my calendar those kind of tasks that we don’t wanna do, whether it’s calling customer service or trying to figure something out that’s not working on the tech side or maybe dealing with insurance or something like that.

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You know those tasks that don’t feel good. Well, there’s been many times where I’ve had it on my list and I might have taken the first step to call and I couldn’t get through. And so I’ll say to my spirit guides, hey, can you please take care of this? And I basically asked them to take care of it and what’s really great is they will get back to me and either the situation has been fixed and I didn’t have to do anything, or the person calls me or I call another day and find the right customer service representative that just takes care of everything that I need, versus spending hours on the phone and draining your life force energy. Not kidding. You know how it feels when it’s just drained, maybe you get really mad, maybe you get frustrated, and then all the income generating tasks that you would do in your business just fall to the wayside.

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And you’re like, I spent two hours on this call with this customer service agent that didn’t help me at all or I spent an hour waiting, finally got a hold of them and then the connection was lost. Whatever it is, that’s why it’s important to follow your energy and talk to your guides. And when that happens, this is one way that your business can grow because you’re actually focusing on the tasks that generate income and the tasks that your energy needs to be doing in that moment instead of just checking the stuff off your list. Now, the same as with your life. Let’s say that you were doing all those tasks when you could be spending time with your family or you could be going outside in nature and just reveling in the abundance that the world has to offer. That’s just one example. A lot of times your spirit guides will give you information.

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So you’re using your intuition and they give you these insights and these thoughts and these ahas to do something a different way than your logical mind tells you to. Maybe you want to all of a sudden create a new offer, or maybe you want to launch a project, or maybe you have a new marketing idea for your business, and it goes against the grain of every single thing that you’ve ever heard before. While your spirit guides are basically saying to you, hey, this is really important for you to show up in this way and you may not understand in the moment why but one thing I’ll tell you is doing something that’s most in alignment with your energy is going to be key. Now, I’m all about getting out of that comfort zone, ,like that might feel a little weird, but if you’re doing something as a robot, right?

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I’m going through the motions versus I feel super aligned with this, then your business is probably not gonna grow. If you are doing something through the motions that you hate every day and you have a schedule in your personal life that you can’t stand or you don’t like the people around you and you’re not gonna do anything about it, then chances are you’re still not going to make that any better. You’re not gonna feel very abundant versus if you start saying yes to these opportunities, to these ideas, these inspirations, meeting new people in your life, right? That might still feel uncomfortable when you say yes to those things and you start understanding that, well, yes, this feels like a perfect opportunity, but I’m just an introvert, that kind of stuff. When you bust through those limitations, then you start to see how your life becomes more abundant because you start having people in your life that are more aligned to you and then you start to feel like you’re opening up to receive those new people can bring you new opportunities, new ideas, new inspirations, and so forth and so on.

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So understanding that if we can spend 80% of our day in this place where we feel like we’re living our purpose, where we feel in alignment, where we feel your energy matches the task that you have for yourself that day, then you are going to vibrate at a higher rate like a vibration. Basically, you’re gonna become lighter. Let’s say you’re gonna feel more expansive, your energy is going to feel more energized, and you are gonna feel more excited about your life which also brings you more abundance in your business. By the way, when you’re doing that, living your purpose at least 80% of the day, you are attracting opportunities that support that. So basically, if you’re doing something you love, you’re saying, I love this, I want more of this. Your spirit guides, the universe says, sure, here you go, because your energy is more vibrant and you are this magnetic attractor. That 20% of your day, you might do things that it’s not like you absolutely love it, but it’s stuff that you have to do. So that 20% of your day, maybe you’re paying bills, maybe you’re making dinner, what you can do is ask yourself, what can I do to shift this synergy? So paying bills, you could say, hey, I’m grateful to pay this electricity bill because it brings me air conditioning and light in the house. I’m grateful for X, Y, Z. You can even shift that a little bit. If you don’t love cooking, you can start asking different questions to yourself. How can I not cook all the time? Can I have a meal plan that helps me feel more aligned? Can I order a meal service that helps me feel more aligned? My husband and I actually will order from this place that gives you frozen healthy meals that don’t have any preservatives and they’re organic and we pop them in the freezer.

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And when we don’t feel like cooking, we can put it in the oven. So you can ask yourselves how to shift that 20% to whittle it down so that that stuff you don’t love is like smaller in your life, like 5%. But if you’re spending 80% of your time doing stuff that you don’t love and you’re just checking stuff off your list, your energy is gonna be drained and tired, like talking to that customer service agent. So if your energy is drained and tired, you’re not in a place to be this super attractor to attract all the things to you. In fact, you might start attracting things that you don’t love because if you’re spending most of your time doing stuff you don’t love, you’re probably gonna attract more of that, right? But also, your energy is just gonna be tired so it’s almost like you’re gonna be shutting the door for abundance because you’re like, I’m drained.

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I don’t have time for anymore stuff. I don’t have time to talk to other people. I don’t have time to participate in other opportunities because I’m freaking tired. So I wanted to talk about it that way so that you’re understanding, oh yeah, if I’m spending my wheels here and my energy is drained in my business and my life, that makes sense, then I’m not gonna be attracting opportunities. How can I actually feel like I’m in a place to receive when I’m drained and tired versus if I’m allowing myself to be more supported and energized? So if you’re somebody that wants to align a bit more, I’d love for you to go to messengerofspirit.com/aligned to learn more. Jump on the waitlist. I hope this episode has given you some things to think about and how you can align your intuition and energy to your life and business. Tell me what you thought about this episode over on Instagram, DM me on @messengerofspirit and I’ll see you on the next episode. But until then, here’s to staying Spiritual and Ambitious..

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