I’d be willing to bet the most important thing to your success is clarity– your ability to see things as they really are.
Reality is neutral, but the human mind isn’t and we see reflections of our own thoughts and feelings in the world.
Our experiences become our reality.
And this is how the human being gets caught in their own web.
We live these matrix lives, where day in and day out it’s pretty much more of the same.
We face the same kinds of problems, conflicts, and even come up with the same kinds of solutions. We never think anything new, and if you really look– you’ll see your life is just you re-running the same program in different environments.
You might wonder why does it even matter?
Well, If you love your life it doesn’t. But if you desire for more and at that, actual achievement… it matters a lot.
There is a way to change this, but it’s hard and requires outside help.
I don’t mean your goo-roo.
You need help from future you… but not the successful one, the failure.
You need to get outside of yourself, see yourself, and then make adjustments and plans from that vantage point.
A few years back, I met someone a lot like me. At the time I didn’t see it, but they might as well have been me– aged to 40.
He had my same personality type, and with that, same life obstacles.
While he was incredibly witty and capable, he never built anything. He was always jumping from thing to thing, had all these ideas he never finished, and even though he knew how to laugh at the world– there was an underlying intensity you could feel.
I of course, saw no similarity.
But he did.
And he was smart enough to tell me you’ll want to create systems to stop you from jumping around– basically, know your weaknesses and act accordingly.
I didn’t listen.
So, I started to make his mistakes.
I did that for a few years, until finally I saw it. I could see that my mind did this.
And this is where success began. I could actually see myself aging into him, and to avoid that because I do want a fulfilling and successful life– I’m sticking. His problem is he never stays the course, he has too many ideas and acts on all of them all the time.
His problem, is potentially mine.
In your head you can’t see yourself.
Seeing him, my problem becomes real.
The reality is my mind is overactive and always imagines better paths– but these paths CAN’T cause you to leave your current one.
Looking at his life, I’ve seen how this all ends. It ends with wasted potential.
So, thanks to his second hand wisdom, I’m sticking to my lane. Everything else is just interesting, but not an option.
Learn from future you by meeting them.
The ability to see the world through a neutral lens is EVERYTHING.
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