Too Much to Ask

While the idea of making a change might sound like a pleasant invitation, awakening to your evolutionary and higher selves is clearly going to be a shock to your senses as if turns your world upside down. Its almost too much to ask a someone, “What if everything you knew was a lie?”

To watch all your tightly held beliefs fade away into the simple parlor tricks on the mind that they are, all with the purpose of controlling you and keeping you associated (or disassociated) in such a way so as to be easily identified, tracked, managed, and manipulated.

The awakening process is a time of discovery and connection to your divine self, the you whom you should have been, who you were born to be, but the living of life as we’ve been forced to live it snuffed this sacred part of you out.

I have heard many stories of those who have endured this evolutionary process of awakening and the results were nothing short of shocking, it’s as if everything you believed in or trusted in becomes massively chaotic.

At this stage, you have to ask yourself,

Am I ready to walk away from everything I believe in?

Risk losing everything I’ve worked for?

That’s a lot to ask anyone, and for some, it is far too much to ask.

Who in their “right” mind would want to walk away from their retirement, spouse, home, safety, and security? And for what? Something vague, which cannot be seen or touched, and something you’ve been told, or programmed to believe, was either the devil himself or a fairy tale?

The easier life is in the flesh, the harder it is to let go of it enough to allow the evolutionary process to take place.

And if that weren’t enough, it’s like stepping into the black abyss, without a safety harness. You start with one step, then you take another… Then for others, they dive in as if off a diving board. Either way, from this new vantage point you have the ability to look back and see,

Things are not what they appeared to be at all.

And you may be surprised to find that you are far more than you were ever allowed to believe.

New love, new life, and the noticing (probably for the first time, except for brief glimpses) that there is so much more to this life than you’d been led to believe. You notice life if fuller and richer, beaming with love and life in everything, and you are intrinsically connected to it all.

But to ask someone to take the step out of what is “known” into what is unknown is too much to ask anyone to do.

It’s something that only you can decide to do when it is the right time for you to do it. It has to be something you want more than anything when you are willing to risk leaving the life you’ve become so accustomed to behind.

It is too much to ask.

Fear of Loss

In life, personal and professional, business and in investments, being afraid to take risk will more often than not hinder your rate of return.

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I’ve participated in businesses partnerships and organizations that adhered to specific cues, circumstances and cues in their investments so as to reduce the risk of potential loss. This I refer to as the

IF, THEN, ELSE subroutine

It goes something, like this:

We agree to participate in this particular venture with minimal investment and effort. IF there are particular signs that a reasonable profit may be earned, THEN we will have a meeting to see if the signs warrant a further investment of attention and/or cash. ELSE we cut continue to monitor looking for other clues.

There can be many checks and balances running in separate IF, THEN, ELSE subroutines, endlessly cascading to prevent potential loss.

Under these conditions acceptable gains may be realized and losses can be minimized. The people who participate in arrangements, like this, are quite satisfied with mediocre returns on their investments and may be comfort to falling back on settling for a few points of return in a bank savings account, while they wait for their next safe investment opportunity.

While I have joined others in IF, THEN, ELSE agreements, “safe investing” is not my preference (off camera, I might refer to this as, “chicken shit investing”).

In my endeavors, I prefer an ALL IN approach, where I love the project with all my heart, am passionate, proactive, have a high degree of responsibility of success or failure and go full-steam ahead to create an excellent result. This is why entrepreneurship suites me well.
This requires a high degree of self-confidence and does not appeal much to the safe investor. The idea of risking everything for a potential unknown outcome is fraught with fear of danger.

Of course, courageous investing without proper due diligence is folly. That is why I prefer a more conscious approach before going ALL IN on any potential project. For instance, I must love the endeavor, be passionate about it and the project at hand must be in-line with the theme of my life’s journey. So these are some of the questions I might ask before going ALL IN:

  • Is there an opportunity to achieve long-term success?
  • Are there associated activities that will bring me a sense of fulfillment and joy?
  • Can I perform necessary tasks while maintaining a vibratory state of love?
  • While engaged, can I help others achieve their highest and best?
  • Can this project help to make the world a better place?

Of course everyone would have their own independent set of questions to review prior to engaging in a potential project, so yours would more adequately represent your specific life-theme and/or goals.

CONSCIOUS INVESTING takes a great many things into account before making the leap but does take self-confidence and the ability to overcome fear.

The powers managing the United States and our world promote a state of fear because fearful people are easy to manage (“protect”).

Unlike, Jesus, I’m not saying conscious investing is better than safe investing. In His parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) the investors who returned with a 100% rate of return were rewarded, while the safe investor was punished. I’m saying, “It is what it is,” and, “everyone’s doing the best they can with what they have,” without any judgment.

There’s no right way or wrong way, just different strokes for different folks.

Q: Can a safe investor become a conscious investor?

A: Yes, but the work starts within, like all meaningful work. Start with the heart, build self-confidence and overcome fear, while learning, remaining mindful and moving steadily toward your goal.

Q: Is it necessary to become a conscious investor, if I’m not?

A: No. You are not broken. Nothing is wrong with you. You are perfect just the way you are, and you are loved.