Give Yourself a 'Free Pass' to Waste Time
Watch your goals come effortlessly into your life...
Hi, I’m Saachi!
If life feels like a chore, like you’re constantly uneasy waiting to achieve something, you’re in the right place.
It turns out this forcing is the very thing blocking the magic.
Every week, I write about the science, stories, and experiments you can run to prove it to yourself. ✨
A couple of years ago, I let myself binge YouTube for days on something my mind kept calling the biggest waste of time.
And it turned into one of the most effortless transformations of my life.
I know how silly that sounds. But this small, low-risk story is going to show you exactly how following your intuition can bring any of your goals to life...
especially the lower-risk ones you’re willing to let go of, so you can build the proof to do the same on your big life goals.
The silly little story I promised you
Dressing well has always been one of my goals. I know, it sounds trivial. Stay with me though, because the size of the goal is the whole point.
A couple of years ago, I was at my parents’ place for summer break with my kids. I was bored of my wardrobe and wanting to refresh how I looked.
Over the years I’d picked up all kinds of clothes impulsively while shopping, and a lot of them didn’t go together at all.
My goal was simple: cut the junk and find a smart capsule wardrobe style that felt easy and second nature. But how do you even start?
A little before this, I’d started journaling and following the curiosity experiment, jotting down every idea and thought without judgment into my notes app.
(If you want to start there, here’s last week’s post —>)
So I set the intention to dress better. And one day, in my notes, I wrote down a single small idea: check out capsule wardrobes on YouTube.
That’s how I found Lydia Tomlinson’s channel.
It seemed like a light bulb moment and I followed the itch.
From there, I gave myself a free pass to binge. Endlessly. For days.
I took screenshots. I started pairing clothes from my wardrobe every single day to fit this style. I went deep.
This was something I would never have let myself consciously do before, because my mind would have called it the biggest waste of time.
But it was an experiment, and I had a free pass, so I went with it.
And boy, was it fun.
From there it got effortless. I experimented daily with capsule pairings. I culled my wardrobe by 50%.
I kept only the pieces that fit my new style, and it improved how I looked dramatically. Family members started complimenting me. So did the mothers at my daughters’ school.
I went so deep, so freely, that it changed my style forever.
I genuinely don’t know how I’d go back to the way I used to dress. I can barely even remember what that was.
What this actually taught me
Like I said, this story might sound silly and pointless.
But here’s the point:
Following your intuition, especially on your smaller, lower-risk goals, is the easiest way to feel how effortless achieving a goal can actually be.
It only asks one thing of you.
Permission.
Permission to follow freely, without judgment, second-guessing, or doubt, no matter how illogical it sounds.
Permission to go deep even while your mind keeps insisting you’re wasting time, get back to work.
That’s exactly why it works so well on the lighter, smaller goals first.
They’re safe enough to let go of. But the more you do this, the more you’ll watch your goals arrive in your life almost effortlessly.
Don’t get me wrong, you are participating. You are doing the work. It just feels effortless, because there’s no friction between thought and action.
What’s really going on here
This is what walking the path of alignment looks like.
The more you let your intuition speak freely, the louder it gets.
The more you hear it, the more reassurance you get that yes, this is what you actually want. And then you follow it.
This is the path to discovering your ‘personal legend,’ as Paulo Coelho would say, and living up to your highest potential.
Think of your intuition as an intelligent guidance system that’s quietly coordinating with the universe to bring your goals to life.
The guidance won’t always make sense at the moment.
But when you follow it anyway, you participate intelligently, and you reach your goals effortlessly.
That’s the magic: when you do what lights you up, led by your intuition, outcomes start to organize around you.
Your free pass for this week
So this week, we take the curiosity experiment one step further.
First, a quick word on last week. We ran a 7 day experiment just to begin hearing what our intuition wanted to say, without judgment, without shutting it down.
What did you come up with? Did anything surprise you? I absolutely love this experiment, and I still do it daily.
Here’s the quick refresher (skip if you’ve read it):
Keep a fresh notes page open on your phone, called the Curiosity Experiment.
Or carry a small notebook and pen in your pocket.
Every time a thought or idea comes, no matter what it is, write it down without judgment or commentary. That’s the key.
Catch it like a sneaky journalist following your intuition around.
This week, we go further. I want you to follow an idea - any one idea.
Allow yourself to follow it as deeply as your intuition wants you to, exactly like you saw in my capsule wardrobe story.
The steps are simple:
Take one idea or thought from your notebook this week.
Ask yourself: what’s the next small step I could take to explore it?
Then give yourself the free pass to just do it. Endlessly, no time limit. Let it consume you, no matter how deep you want to go.
Explore it without judgment, and see where it takes you.
Have fun with it! It’s a free pass, after all.
This dive might last a day. It might last months.
Don’t force it. When your curiosity moves on, move on.
You got what you came for. The only rule: don’t question it.
Don’t ask ‘what’s the point.’ It’s a free pass.
When you do this freely, you may find a smaller goal begin to arrive in your life effortlessly, exactly like my capsule wardrobe.
You won’t always know in the moment why you’re going so deep. But at some point, the dots connect.
And when they do, document it. That’s how we build proof that this magic is real.
If you want to go deeper, or you have questions about the experiment, I’d love to hear from you. Comment ‘EXPERIMENT’ below and I’ll reach out personally to check in.
This is a big step in learning how to live with this magic! I wish you all the best.