You Determine It
When starting on or entering into a new section of your journey, there is great excitement on the participants part. This is where all the initial adrenaline and motivation live that begin with these types of journeys. Be careful here because in this section there lies some insecurities that have derailed many attempts at this journey.
The classic is, your energy not being matched by your closest allies. This one fucked with me for a while. Even after years in personal development, I felt like even more so other people’s energy should match mine because look at my track record. I have years of proof of what I can achieve now. So I got still. Sat in that moment to better understand why this seemed to show up the same way every time in each new expedition.
The answer? The constant was that feeling in the experience. it showed up each time in a new beginning. The next time it showed up, I asked questions and looked around. Why did it feel this way and how do I use it to my advantage?
Up front is where it matters what you do the most. You will have to overcome your perception of yourself, along with everyone else perception of you. If you have not heard this before, let me tell it to you now. When you begin to make changes like these in your life and get intentional with who you are, it will have a dramatic impact on those around you. Messing with other people’s views of you can create some intense life experiences. If you are currently in one of these moments, believe in these next words. In order to draw the people to you that you want and need around you, a first action takes place that creates the space around for these new things in your life.
Another trap area I learned in these times was, it mattered how I felt about my feelings. If I was adding anxiety to an already anxious situation, that wasn’t helpful. If I was in a scenario where I felt like I was the victim and kept playing into the feeling of being a victim, it created the outcome I did not want. Again, the overwhelming evidence showed that how you feel about how you feel is very important. This is where your true humanity lives. The one thing that sets us apart from everything else, our ability to analyze and choose and then choose again and again and again.
Learning to develop your power to choose lets you determine everything. It puts the power of creation squarely in your hands.
