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I'm your host, Blakely Ramsey, and the goal of this podcast is to discuss all things personal development, wellness, and the art of editing your life in an elevated way.

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Hello and welcome to the Elevated Edit podcast.

This is a bit of an impromptu recording.

I actually had not planned this episode out, certainly hadn't planned to do an episode right now.

But something hit me.

An idea hit me as I was working through something, and I'm like, you know what?

That would be such a good short episode.

So something that I'm gonna do a little humble brag for a second.

Something I feel, feel like I really excel at is the little finishing touches.

I feel like I'm really good at adding a little spice at the end that either makes an experience memorable or makes a situation memorable.

And I feel like I get complimented on that a lot.

And people will say things like, oh, Blakely's so extra, or Blakely always, you know, goes above and beyond.

And I think that people think that I just sit around and, like, have these, like, creative ideas just flow out of my head.

And sometimes I do, but it doesn't happen accidentally.

It happens extremely intentionally.

And it's because I give myself the time and the space to think things through, to have creative thoughts, to think ahead.

So I'm going to give you all an example.

And this is kind of where the idea came from.

I'm sitting here looking at the rest of my December.

It is December 9 on the day I'm recording this.

So I'm looking at the rest of my December, and I'm looking at January and end of December and all of January.

I have a pretty packed travel schedule.

And I love to look at travel, look at plans, get them on the calendar, and then really fine tune my days and plan ahead.

And I feel like in that planning ahead, I allow myself to be creative.

I allow myself to think big.

I allow myself to come up with the really cool ideas that look like I am just the most creative person on the planet.

But in reality, I just give myself enough space for my brain to explore and think of these creative ideas.

So what I'll do is I'll put everything.

I'll put all my schedule, like travel schedule in my Google calendar, and then I'll go back and I'll put the things that I know I'LL need to get done just in my everyday life.

And I try to book appointments, I'll go ahead and plan meals.

At this point, with how advanced everything is, you can go ahead and schedule like grocery deliveries.

You can schedule everything out so far in advance.

And for me, that allows me so much space and time.

When I get closer to an event or when I get closer to a busy season, it kind of eliminates a lot of the stress and the panic that builds up when I'm trying to get something done.

But I have also all these personal obligations.

If I go ahead and take care of a lot of things beforehand, everything just seems to run so much smoother and then.

So this is a really, really good example of how giving yourself space and time sparks your creativity.

So I'm going to a paid ad summit in Georgia mid January, and I've got my ticket bought, my hotel room booked, and my plane ticket bought.

And so I've, you know, got that on the calendar.

Well, I've gone ahead and looked up some restaurants and look, if I get there and I see one that I love, can always change my mind.

But I have allowed myself to look on social media, read reviews, read menus, and I have cultivated like a really fun dining experience.

While I'm also there for the summit, I've also looked up a couple other really fun things to do in the evening because I think the summit's from like nine to five every day.

So it'll be pretty intense with the involvement.

But that still gives me a high quality evening to spend time exploring.

I might go for like a little.

It won't be a day trip, but a couple hour trip, like right outside of the town I'm staying.

And so planning ahead allows you to be more creative with your time instead of getting there, rushing around not knowing what you're doing.

And then you look up and you're like, oh, what am I going to have for dinner tonight?

And you spend an hour trying to decide and then you've got to get there.

And then, you know, you spent your whole evening, you really didn't get a lot done.

All you did was eat, which is perfectly fine.

But I love to plan ahead so that I can really cultivate an entire experience.

So then I've taken it a step further.

And because I've planned so far in advance, and I know so many women that I want to be on the podcast are going to be at the summit as well, I've reached out to a few of them and I've been like, hey, I'M going to be in Georgia from this day to this day.

Would you have 30 minutes to sit down with me and record a podcast episode?

I've had a few reach out and say that they would love to.

And I, because this is so far in advance, I was able to find a podcast studio in this town that I'm going to, and they're going to let me book it for a couple of hours.

And so since I've planned so far in advance, I can reach out to a couple more potential guest and get these really amazing women in person on the podcast.

And I wouldn't have had that opportunity if I hadn't have taken the time to sit down and plan ahead.

And there's also a couple more experiences that I'm going to take full advantage of.

Like, while I'm there, I plan on doing a branding shoot.

I'm going to see if I can find a local videographer and just see if they can do some lifestyle content.

Like, I'm going to milk every second out of it that I can.

And later on, you know, people are going to be like, oh, well, it looks like she did all these things and she worked so hard and she did all this and she did all that, but really all I did was give myself the time and the space to brainstorm the time and the space to be creative.

And that's like so many other things that I'm doing in January.

And this doesn't even just have to involve travel.

It can be if you've got, you know, friends coming over for an evening, or if you're working on a project, just get everything organized, get everything scheduled, get everything structured ahead of time.

And then if you kind of release it and not overthink it, ideas will come to you in the shower.

They'll come to you when you're driving, you'll be like, oh, I.

While I'm there, I can do this, or while they're here, I can do that, or while I'm out of town, I can run and go do this, and I can pick this up there.

And that way you're not scrambling at the last minute.

And if you want to come off as someone who I feel like I hear this all the time, like, oh, you made that look really easy.

And most of the time it is easy, but it's because I thought about things two months in advance, I booked things months in advance, I thought things through, and then I allowed myself, I gave myself the time and the space to be creative, to brainstorm.

I think everybody has that creativity in them.

I think a lot of people just wait until the last minute on a lot of really important stuff.

And if you're running around at the last minute, there's not going to be any room for creativity to come in.

There's not going to be any room for those really good ideas to download.

And I think you're doing yourself a disservice if you wait until the last minute for stuff.

So, yeah, that is my short and sweet episode for the day.

I literally was sitting here.

Once again, I want to make sure I look really good in January.

So I text Jessica.

She was already doing a microneedling before I leave and I was like, can we go ahead and throw some discord on there too?

But because I'm sitting here thinking things through, I'm like, okay, I want to make sure my skin looks really good.

I'll book a spray tan.

I'm going to go ahead and make a hair appointment.

Like I can get.

Go ahead and get all these things booked.

So that way I show up confident, I show up excited, I show up prepared.

And while I'm there, because I was so organized and because I had things so planned in advance, if something comes up at the last minute, an opportunity, I'll be ready because I know that I've got everything else covered.

I know I didn't forget everything or anything.

So yeah, that's my tip for the day.

Just plan ahead so that you can give yourself the space, space and the time in the room to be creative and to have those really inspiring and extra and wow pops in your life.

Have a great day.

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