“What you see is what you get”.
“I call it how I see it”.
“Seeing is believing”.
These are pretty popular coined phrases that I’m pretty sure you’ve heard millions of times throughout your life right?
But what does it tell you about people? What’s the underlying tone behind these sayings? Because in my humble opinion it’s two ways to look at it.
BREAK IT DOWN:
Seeing looks a bit like this.
1. Sight.
– A person or individual possessing the ability to see anything physically represented in the material world. A visual broadcast from your mind representing a person, place or thing.
But when your perceptive your sight upgrades to VISION, which looks a little more like this:
2. The Power Of Vision.
– An ability to see beyond the physical image the electrical signals are broadcasting in your brain. A much deeper level of sight that transcends the senses beyond the physical depths of reality.
Kind of like a power up, or even better, if you ever played any kind of RPG game like Grand Theft Auto as a kid or adult you were given a map. This map gave you the ability to see beyond your limited 3D view as the player. Granting you the ability to use waypoints.
These waypoints not only gave clarity of direction, but a roadmap and cautionary routes you could take in order to avoid danger delay.
Having a compelling vision in life is like that, your able to see what still has yet to materialize.
But If you were or still may be apart of the unfortunate few like I myself was, then all you possessed was mere sight at one point in your life.
Yea it was bad. Like being far sighted on an expressway without my glasses kind of bad. I didn’t “See” a damn thing!
This limited view was introduced to me by the system and it’s willing participants, mom, siblings, friends, teachers, political leaders etc etc…
They set the foundational stages for me to be introduced to a life of mental slavery consisting of religion, politics and compulsory schooling like every kid in America for the most part.
I lived a life in which my creativity, independent thought and growth would be stagnated for years to come, taking me years to eventually become who I am now today.
UNDENIABLY PROGRAMMED.
Reality to me didn’t even seem real in my early 20’s. Did this or does this not sound like you? If your reading this, then chances are, most likely it either was or still is and your seeking a way out like I did:
Wake up,
brush your teeth,
prepare your lunch,
Go to work,
Participate in 8-10hrs of un-meaningful work,
Come home,
Either order out or grab a heat and eat,
Watch Netflix, play video games or scroll until you passout,
All to just to wake up to yet another blaring alarm, still wearing the same clothes as the day before because you were too exhausted to even bathe!
Sound familiar!?
I’m not a dirt ball I promise and neither are you, trust me, anyone living a sad reality like that would definitely had been doing the same.
I use to be too tired to do anything.
My energy was zapped MON-FRIDAY with only a day and half of recovery.
Day, after week, after month, after year, after……well I think you get it. I was miserable AF to say the least.
It was a viscous cycle I was in, I felt the programming but the fight against it seemed so damn futile.
I knew life had more meaning, more purpose but my present reality just didn’t align with what I kept seeing in my mind. I was completely paralyzed, locked into my own sub-conscious routine, running a script on auto-pilot while seeing visions of what I could become.
EPIPHANY TIME:
Bro I got fed up.
One day I started paying close attention to my social media feed. I noticed with each new page I would interact with to numb my dull existence.
My Feed would change and so would the content being displayed to me. I couldn’t put a name on it then I realized it was called an Algorithm.
With each new input (page liked, followed, unfollowed, shared or bookmarked). My feed would keep changing, resulting in new outputs, (new content, new suggested pages).
I thought to myself, what if I did this exact same shit to my brain instead of my phone!?
Aaahaaaaa!!!!
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE.
So instead of waking up @6AM to prepare for another mundane day in The Matrix. I did something a little different for once.
I began testing the waters a bit, I initiated an unplugging if you will and started waking up @5am to create mindfulness, meditating deeply on who I wanted to be and exactly what I wanted in life. (This was at the literal ass crack of dawn by the way).
I also started taking inventory of my life and doing a lot more introspection, something I did still but seldom due to the demands consistently being placed on me by outside influences and responsibilities.
I started hitting the gym in replacement for my evening routine of videos games and binge watching Netflix, consequently, breaking my old routine and creating more drive and vitality to do more.
I began documenting my own metamorphosis, I even created a free resource if your interested in checking it out. (10 Quick Tips To Drastically Increase Creativity & Boost Mental Focus).
Shit still helps me to this day..
Something I revert back to when I feel myself getting off track a bit.
But I digress, back to story time kiddies…
BECOME MORE.
I started becoming more..
Seeing how I could leverage my mind to push my body that’s when it officially got real for me.
SIGHT DESTROYED/ VISION EMPLOYED.
There’s three stages of sight you have to examine if you’re going to create a more vivid and compelling vision worth pursuing.
1. Hindsight
-Understanding of a situation or matter after its conclusion.
2. Foresight
-The ability to plan or predict the future.
3. Insight
– The act of understanding the inner nature of things.
If you’re going to escape the hamster wheel that “The Matrix” has created for you…
You have to “see” how it all began, realize how you became indoctrinated to where you willingly became compliant in your demise.
You have to have “foresight” into a greater version of who you need to become in order to create the reality for yourself that you truly desire.
And acquire the necessary “insight” to formulate a plan to sustain the reality you desire to exist in.
I go over reality creation in more detail in my E-Book (Create Your Own Reality E-Book) it’s FREE and more useful then any text book you’ve ever picked up about trigonometry in school.
Who TF even uses that in today’s world anyway?!
NOBODY. That’s who.
Again more indoctrination into a system of compulsory learning that meant absolutely NOTHING.
My opinion?
Entrepreneurship.
Why?
5 Reasons:
1. It forces growth and evolution.
– You can’t attain what you’ve never had by remaining the same and doing what you’ve always done .
2. You’re forced to become a hunter.
– When your stomach is empty, your creativity to find new ways to eat are at its highest.
3. You become the solo driver of your financial future.
– Your perception of the market or industry you desire to break into becomes jaded, you see new opportunities to solve old problems.
4. You reveal the savior within.
– You come to terms with the fact that you were always the one. Your desire for more and to have more was always valid.
5. You have a channel to transmute your pain into purpose.
– When your stress is at an all time high you now have a lucrative way to decompress instead of indulging in broke fruitless habits and behaviors.
ONE SIZE NEVER FITS ALL:
There’s never 2 paths that are the exact same for an entrepreneur. Your journey isn’t my journey and my journey isn’t your journey.
But nonetheless, your journey of living your own ideal reality begins when you start seeing yourself in your highest possible form.
Perception is reality to all. If you can’t see who your capable of becoming along with the ideal reality you desire to live nobody else can either, or ever will for that matter.
Ok..Ok…Ok…LAST STORY.
I use to work with an older gentlemen, let’s call him BOB. BOB worked forty plus years at the same company I worked for, this was before my own start-up.
BOB would always talk about how much he hated his career, how he couldn’t stand the working conditions he felt subjected to and how he had always wish he would have took more risks in life.
Around the time I was starting my own company Purposed To Dominate, BOB had told me how he had always wanted to break into the food truck business.
I’d plant seeds here and there, saying things like: “Hey how’s the food truck business coming along!? I know sales are through the roof aren’t they?”
He’d reply laughingly, “Yea there sky high! in my head! I’m just an old man, I’m to old for dreams”.
You see, that was his reality! He couldn’t get pass own perceived image of who he always was, so it was virtually going to become impossible to envision becoming anything more.
Reality, A Matter Of Perception.
Don’t allow any former limitations of who you were or the set backs that you incurred in your life to limit who you can still become.
The purpose you believe you have is defined by your vision and the level of commitment you have to it. Even though you were introduced to a life of mediocrity and passivity, it doesn’t mean you still can’t become extraordinary and start DOMINATING at anytime you decide too.
The hamster wheel that “The Matrix” created for you stops spinning when you say it does.
Your journey of leveling up begins and ends in your own mind.
Until next time family.
KEEP CREATING YOUR OWN REALITY.
– Cass
