Good Shift - How Creative Allowance Changes the Way You Plan - E215

Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick

Dr. JC Doornint explores the concept of 'creative allowance' within his Good Shift series. He reflects on his role as a creator for 'sense m

Key takeaways

• Dr. JC Doornick defines his primary audience as 'sense makers' and 'seekers of the earth.'
• The concept of 'allowance' involves setting goals without demanding that reality deliver an exact, pre-imagined result.

Main topics

• Creative Allowance
• Sense Makers

Notable quotes

Allowance is the willingness to let the cards fall as they may without immediately deciding that the cards are wrong.

Conclusion

The episode provides a philosophical framework for reducing stress by

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) Hey everybody, this is part of our new series called Good Shift on the Make Sense with Dr. JC podcast, where we take one of our favorite blogs from the Make Sense sub stack and bring it to you live right here. I sure hope that you'll enjoy this because this is some good shift. Have you noticed that the world that we live in has been doing most of the thinking for you? That your beliefs, perceptions, reactions, fears, and doubts have been shaped by unsolicited outside noise? How easy it's been for you to slip into that default sleepwalking mode and label it as Speaker 1 (0:34) life and reality. Yeah, that ends here. Speaker 2 (0:37) Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. JC podcast. This is your opportunity to start thinking for yourself, reclaim control, and step back into that role as the shock collar and dominant force of your own reality. It's when you change the way that you look at things that the things that you look at begin to change. So let's wake up, let's rise up, and let's make sense of why and how shift happens. Speaker 2 (1:08) This is some good shift. So I was recently asked a few questions about the people that I create content for and the voice that I create it from. Questions were simple enough. Who are you creating content for? What are they looking for? And what is the difference about your voice? But as I answered, I realized that sometimes the questions that someone asks seem to have this weird way of becoming the questions that we've been waiting to ask ourselves. Make sense? So I came to this conclusion. My intended audience are what we call sense makers. They range from their 20s to their 80s, though many of them seem to be women that are standing at some kind of a crossroads in their life. They may be reinventing themselves or trying to reestablish a foundation beneath an identity that just seems to no longer feel quite right for them. They may have reached a point where the life that they have been living no longer feels like the life that they are consciously choosing. Something in them is stirring, and they're becoming willing to look again. They're what I call seekers of the earth. They want to be happier, healthier, and wealthier, just like you. It's not because they believe that life is a problem that you can solve once and for all. They're seekers because they're beginning to notice the