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There's a big lie that everyone believes in that causes so much pain and discomfort. Problem is, most people don't even know they are taking part in 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.
Here it is - there's this place that you will reach where everything "turns out."
Let me further explain this.
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.
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."
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.
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?"
Be amoebic. Huh? Yes...just like an amoeba. Let me explain.
Start viewing your life as a very fluid and shifting thing. When you can see life this way, you step out of everything being very black and white and see the world for what it truly is...colorful.
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.
Living in this world, everything is possible.
Take a second to ask yourself, "What's actually here? What's really going on?"
Quit rowing.
There's a big lie that everyone believes in that causes so much pain and discomfort. Problem is, most people don't even know they are taking part in 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.
Here it is - there's this place that you will reach where everything "turns out."
Let me further explain this.
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.
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."
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.
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?"
Be amoebic. Huh? Yes...just like an amoeba. Let me explain.
Start viewing your life as a very fluid and shifting thing. When you can see life this way, you step out of everything being very black and white and see the world for what it truly is...colorful.
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.
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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