Yes...seriously.
Seriously. There's been a story that has been running your entire life and you may not even know it. Or, you may know it but have absolutely no idea how to get out of it.
Don't worry it's not your fault.
We've all been fed this story and it's incredible powerful.
I'm here to tell you what that lie is and how knowing about it can literally change your life.
I know that it can change lives because it changed mine.
The big lie is this: there's a place and time in your life where everything will magically "turn out" and you will be happy.
Let me explain.
If you can take a second to think of your "future" and all of the great things that live in that place...you are entering into the place of "the land where it all turns out." When you think of this place, often you will start to feel warm fuzzy feelings of happiness. You've arrived.
This island doesn't exist.
It's a very sexy lie and a complete mirage.
What makes this mirage so impossibly sexy is that you believe that your happiness lives there. That alone will keep you rowing your boat as much as you possibly can.
Living this way brings out an incredibly messy lifestyle. It puts you on a timeline where you focus on the black and white side of life, on progress, on a strictly future driven mentality and that will cause great amounts of discomfort.
It will bring out anxiety, fear, doubt, worry, and pretty much every other negative emotion in the book because you aren't slowing down at all and constantly seeking a place you will never get to.
THIS IS EXHAUSTING.
But most never get the opportunity to shift their perspective so they spend the rest of their lives rowing rowing rowing and even if they do achieve some of what they wanted for themselves, they realize that their happiness still doesn't live in those things or places.
You know that mid-life crisis ordeal? Bingo.
So what do you need to do to take yourself out of the "rowing mentality?"
You have to model your life after the amoeba. What?! The amoeba? Yes...let me explain further.
When you start viewing your life as an ever-changing, shifting, and morphing entity you end up focusing more on growth. You see life as very colorful, an opportunity for learning, experiences, change and development.
But it gets even better.
This type of living brings out incredible things in you. Because when you are focus on what's actually developing in your life, you jump off the timeline, you start living more in the present and focus on "what's actually here or what's going on?" and you exit the future.
So exit the future and start living in the present moment. Take your endlessly rowing oars out of the water and start enjoying what's actually going on around you. Truth is, you can only exist in the present moment anyways.
When you slow down to connect with others and what's going on around you, you will start to see incredible changes in your life.
Everything is possible when you live in this type of world.
So pull your oars out of the water and ask yourself right now, "What's actually here? What's really going on in my life? What do I have to be grateful for?
End your rowing.
Seriously. There's been a story that has been running your entire life and you may not even know it. Or, you may know it but have absolutely no idea how to get out of it.
Don't worry it's not your fault.
We've all been fed this story and it's incredible powerful.
I'm here to tell you what that lie is and how knowing about it can literally change your life.
I know that it can change lives because it changed mine.
The big lie is this: there's a place and time in your life where everything will magically "turn out" and you will be happy.
Let me explain.
If you can take a second to think of your "future" and all of the great things that live in that place...you are entering into the place of "the land where it all turns out." When you think of this place, often you will start to feel warm fuzzy feelings of happiness. You've arrived.
This island doesn't exist.
It's a very sexy lie and a complete mirage.
What makes this mirage so impossibly sexy is that you believe that your happiness lives there. That alone will keep you rowing your boat as much as you possibly can.
Living this way brings out an incredibly messy lifestyle. It puts you on a timeline where you focus on the black and white side of life, on progress, on a strictly future driven mentality and that will cause great amounts of discomfort.
It will bring out anxiety, fear, doubt, worry, and pretty much every other negative emotion in the book because you aren't slowing down at all and constantly seeking a place you will never get to.
THIS IS EXHAUSTING.
But most never get the opportunity to shift their perspective so they spend the rest of their lives rowing rowing rowing and even if they do achieve some of what they wanted for themselves, they realize that their happiness still doesn't live in those things or places.
You know that mid-life crisis ordeal? Bingo.
So what do you need to do to take yourself out of the "rowing mentality?"
You have to model your life after the amoeba. What?! The amoeba? Yes...let me explain further.
When you start viewing your life as an ever-changing, shifting, and morphing entity you end up focusing more on growth. You see life as very colorful, an opportunity for learning, experiences, change and development.
But it gets even better.
This type of living brings out incredible things in you. Because when you are focus on what's actually developing in your life, you jump off the timeline, you start living more in the present and focus on "what's actually here or what's going on?" and you exit the future.
So exit the future and start living in the present moment. Take your endlessly rowing oars out of the water and start enjoying what's actually going on around you. Truth is, you can only exist in the present moment anyways.
When you slow down to connect with others and what's going on around you, you will start to see incredible changes in your life.
Everything is possible when you live in this type of world.
So pull your oars out of the water and ask yourself right now, "What's actually here? What's really going on in my life? What do I have to be grateful for?
End your rowing.
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