Sunday 7 February 2016

The One Lie Running Your Entire Life

By Evan Sanders


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 because it changed mine.

Here's the BIG lie: there's an island where it all turns out.

Let me further explain this.

Imagine you are in a rowboat heading towards this "island where it all turns out." This island is the land of where all your dreams, hopes, aspirations, and goals come true...and when you get there...you will be happy. But there's one major problem with all of this...

This island doesn't exist.

This place is an absolute 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.

But it gets worse. It's not just about rowing your boat to an imaginary place that's bad, it's about what this mentality brings out in you. Living this way makes you strive on a timeline to achieve something and makes you incredibly narrow minded. Everything is about progress. Everything must go "according to plan."

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.

AND THIS IS 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.

What is the shift that needs to take place in order for you to exit out of this way of thinking?

Be amoebic. Huh? Yes...just like an amoeba. Let me explain.

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.

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.

Living in this world, everything is possible.

Take a second to ask yourself, "What's actually here? What's really going on?"

Quit rowing.




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