Every now and again I go through periods of uncomfortable assessment and growth…
Am I happy with how things are going?
Am I doing what I want to be doing?
Am I in control of my time?
Am I being a good father?
Am I being a good person?
Am I living life to the fullest?
Most of those periods end with me coming to some realization about how I’m (still) living in a box. About how I’m (still) living in a world that I’ve let other people define for me.
I often end up with a strong yearning to “break out,” even more than I’ve already done.
But I realize that I’m still missing some big answers about what it really means to live my life, my way.
In the past, I’ve looked to other people for those answers…
I’ve looked to books for those answers…
I’ve looked to courses for those answers…
While I learned a lot doing all of that, I can sum up the entire education in one sentence. Because in the end, I really only learned one main type of thing.
And that is:
I learned other people’s answers.
Now I know why they were only marginally successful in my life.
Because they weren’t my answers.
And more importantly, I now understand there’s really only one question I need to be concerned with answering:
How can I become a more real and vibrant version of me?
The more I answer that question, the better my life and business will become.
And there’s really only one voice that I need to listen to to get the answers.
‘Cause (without getting all airy fairy on you) some part of me DOES have all the secrets.
But the books won’t tell me what my secrets are…
And the courses won’t tell me what my secrets are…
And the experts won’t tell me what my secrets are…
Those things, the books, the courses and the experts, deliver a different kind of knowledge. It’s important, but it’s only part of the puzzle.
In fact, there’s only one single person in the entire universe that can tell me what those “secrets” to my happiness are.
And that’s little ol’ me.
Too bad I’ve spent so many years looking for all the right answers in all the wrong places.
Here’s what I know:
I am not a marketer…
I am not an entrepreneur…
I am not a publisher…
I am not an affiliate…
I am not a consultant…
I am not a copywriter…
I am me.
To the extent I figure our exactly what that means and how to express it in both business and life, then I will be successful and I will be happy.
But at least now I’m clear on exactly what the goal is.
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