088 – The Art of Allowing: How to Recognize and Value the Right Opportunities



Have you found yourself drowning in opportunities but struggling to determine which ones are worth pursuing? Do you sometimes reject possibilities that could transform your career because they arrive at inconvenient times or challenge your ego? Perhaps you\'ve experienced the opposite problem—feeling stuck in a creative desert where meaningful opportunities seem nonexistent? In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares his journey from resistance to \"allowing\" as a foundational approach to both life\'s challenges and opportunities. Beginning with candid stories of a day filled with minor mishaps—from spilled smoothies to broken windshield wipers in Vancouver rain—he reveals how embracing what is creates space for better decision-making about what could be. Drawing from personal experiences with predatory offers, overwhelming choices, and observations of self-sabotaging behaviors in the artistic community, David offers a philosophical framework for recognizing a

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