By the Ocean
Partly Cloudy 74 Degrees
5:59 a.m.
We weren’t trained to be brave or have courage. In the Matrix, those qualities are reserved for movie characters.
When you realize you’re starring in your own movie, then it becomes odd that you don’t see more people exhibiting these behaviors in their lives.
- I want to do this but it’s just not practical.
- I really hate doing X but it’s paying the bills.
- The regulations say I have to wait until Y and then I can get started.
- Once things settle down a bit, then maybe I will try it.
These are all words of humans who were trained to be cowards.
I know. I was one of them.
And then something broke. It was probably the pressure of having to provide for myself when I went into the world of business that did it. The stress and strain of an adult man realizing he’d been raised to be completely dependent on others is a tough road to start walking on decades into life.
But that’s what the Matrix is about. It’s about fear and learned helplessness. And I was a perfect student.
If your life isn’t the way you want, it’s because of you. If your business isn’t the way you want, it’s because of you.
This is the greatest news. Unless you’re a coward. Then it’s terrible news.
But if you still have access to the supply of courage that lives within all of us, then you have the power to IMAGINE your life as you choose to see it.
And then you can slowly (or quickly, there are no rules here, this is YOUR life!) bring your thoughts, words and actions into alignment with that vision.
Most likely, the world will not like this. They’ve grown used to benefiting from the old you, the one who plays too small, the one who is willing to shrink in the face of resistance to your dream, the one who was taught to believe that living your life the way you see fit just isn’t “possible.”
The vision of the new you makes them uncomfortable. Because it reminds them of their own cowardice. And that creates a feeling they do not have the capacity to hold.
This is not your problem.
What would happen to the way you move through your day if you truly, even for just a moment, BELIEVED that you have something truly priceless to offer the world?
This is not playing make believe, this is an act of remembering. It is why you are here.
We forgot our value, and now we can remember it. It is just the type of storyline that makes for a riveting movie.