Yes...seriously.
There's been a huge lie that has been running your entire life. Problem is, you might not even know it.
It's not your fault.
This lie is incredibly powerful and no one has been left out of its grasp.
Knowing this lie and what it does to your life can literally change your world.
Not joking. How do I know? 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.
Take a second to imagine that you are in a boat constantly rowing towards this island where your happiness lives. You can see your ideal life: the car, the partner, the house, the job etc. When you think of this place you believe that you will be happy.
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.
Worse yet, it's not just about the rowing that is bad, it's what this type of attitude brings out in you. When you are living from this frame of mind, you end up seeing life as very linear, black and white, timeline-esque, future driven, progress driven...and when things don't go "according to plan" or don't show up as "how they should be" everything gets incredible messy.
When you are constantly rowing towards the future, you forget to connect with the present moment and fear, worry, and doubt start to crawl into your life.
THIS CAN BE INCREDIBLY EXHAUSTING.
However, most people never get the chance to really consider that this is the way that they are living their life and exit this habit. They just continue on rowing and never quite make it to where they wanted to go.
Ever heard of mid-life crisis? 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.
Start to view your life as a living, breathing, morphing, adapting and adjusting entity. When you do this, you can see the world as very colorful and fluid.
But here's where it get's really good.
When you live this way, the best is brought out in you. You are able to focus on what's really developing in you and how you can grow and change. You connect more with the present. You show up as who you really are. You connect more with others.
Start living in the present. You can spend your entire life rowing to this place you will never get to or you can connect with what is right in front of you.
If you can grasp this concept, and really slow down a bit to understand just how much you've been rowing in your boat, you will see incredible changes in your life. You will connect with people more, connect with yourself, become more grounded, allow happiness to find you in the moment, and a slew of other fantastic things.
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?
Quit rowing.
There's been a huge lie that has been running your entire life. Problem is, you might not even know it.
It's not your fault.
This lie is incredibly powerful and no one has been left out of its grasp.
Knowing this lie and what it does to your life can literally change your world.
Not joking. How do I know? 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.
Take a second to imagine that you are in a boat constantly rowing towards this island where your happiness lives. You can see your ideal life: the car, the partner, the house, the job etc. When you think of this place you believe that you will be happy.
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.
Worse yet, it's not just about the rowing that is bad, it's what this type of attitude brings out in you. When you are living from this frame of mind, you end up seeing life as very linear, black and white, timeline-esque, future driven, progress driven...and when things don't go "according to plan" or don't show up as "how they should be" everything gets incredible messy.
When you are constantly rowing towards the future, you forget to connect with the present moment and fear, worry, and doubt start to crawl into your life.
THIS CAN BE INCREDIBLY EXHAUSTING.
However, most people never get the chance to really consider that this is the way that they are living their life and exit this habit. They just continue on rowing and never quite make it to where they wanted to go.
Ever heard of mid-life crisis? 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.
Start to view your life as a living, breathing, morphing, adapting and adjusting entity. When you do this, you can see the world as very colorful and fluid.
But here's where it get's really good.
When you live this way, the best is brought out in you. You are able to focus on what's really developing in you and how you can grow and change. You connect more with the present. You show up as who you really are. You connect more with others.
Start living in the present. You can spend your entire life rowing to this place you will never get to or you can connect with what is right in front of you.
If you can grasp this concept, and really slow down a bit to understand just how much you've been rowing in your boat, you will see incredible changes in your life. You will connect with people more, connect with yourself, become more grounded, allow happiness to find you in the moment, and a slew of other fantastic things.
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?
Quit rowing.
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