Control
Who is in charge of your life?
It has been a while since I have put fingers to keyboard. Since the last blog on the 1st of January I have embarked on a journey of self-discovery, learning and experiencing so I can share with you my findings.
Many of us have heard the quote by Ford: Whether you think you can or not, you are right!
In the last few months I have come to the understanding that it isn’t that straightforward, it may appear simple, the reality is less so.
When we learn there are four stages in the learning process:
- Unconscious incompetence - we don’t know what we don’t know,
- Conscious incompetence – we know what we don’t know,
- Conscious competence – we know what we know, and
- Unconscious competence – we don’t know what we know or mastery!
So I have concluded that until we step into the conscious incompetence sphere in life, we won’t be able to determine what we can or not do. All else is just but an assumption.
Fear on the other hand, is what has been driving many people for centuries, generations of families, groups and societies. This fear, is much more than the acronym it has been given many times – False expectations appearing real! –
What is driving this fear? Or the force behind it? In my experience and understanding it is stress, due to the environment, our behaviours and beliefs in general.
So, we go in life (and I include myself here!), creating this pseudo reality, a stress-packed and stress-full life and reality, where we don’t trust our feelings, emotions and inner guidance; dreams don’t matter any longer and the spark we were once born with slowly fades away, ultimately we miss out on what could have been our biggest and best achievements and successes in life.
Stress, in my opinion stands for (why not give it an acronym too!)
- Silly,
- Tormenting,
- Ridiculous,
- Endless,
- Self-
- Sabotaging.
Do I need to expand on what these mean?
What to do then?
Simple, make a decision, just one decision, THE single most important decision you will have ever made in your life, right now. Step off your comfort zone and explore life on the “conscious incompetence level”, explore something new, something that scares you and allows you to grow as an individual.
In my case, that “something” scary was to be true to myself, and tap into my mission and purpose in this life-time, which is to help people find their mission and purpose in life. It wasn’t easy, I had to explore the unknown (to me), grow and evolve so I could find my strengths and opportunities around me.
Before then, I only focused on the “stick”, my weaknesses and threats… In a nutshell I was stressed and I did not know it; fear took over and imprisoned me in a jail of my own creation which was strengthened by own liming beliefs and demons.
Now, on this side of the comfort zone, what can I say? I am here, typing this blog for you to read and ignite that flame, passion and life, in you.
Go and take control of your life, grab the pen and start writing your own story.
What will you do differently from now?
Share with me.
Jorge
