Tag: breakthrough

Are You Ready for the Next Level? Let’s Do This.

Every new chapter in life begins the same way: With a quiet, almost imperceptible stirring inside your soul that whispers, “It’s time.” Time to grow. Time to expand. Time to become more than you’ve ever been. You feel that the time to make a change has come, but here’s the caveat: The next level never comes easily. It will stretch you. It will test you. It will place something in front of you that you must rise above if you want to cross that threshold.

Not because life is cruel. Not because the universe is trying to break you. But because you are being prepared for the version of you who lives on the other side of this moment.

That version of you is stronger. Clearer. Wiser. And far more powerful than the one standing here today.

Challenge Is the Doorway, Not the Obstacle

Every time you feel resistance. Every time you feel fear rising from your gut to your throat. Every time you look at your circumstances and think, “This is too big… too much… not for someone like me…”

That’s the doorway. That’s the threshold you must cross. On the other side? A new life. A new level of possibility. A new expression of who you truly are. And you are ready, whether you believe it right now or not. I know this because you’re here. You wouldn’t be reading these words unless your soul already felt the calling.

Anyone who has achieved anything of significance has walked through their own fire first.

Oprah Winfrey

Before she became a global icon, she faced poverty, trauma, and repeated setbacks. She didn’t rise in spite of them, she rose because she refused to be defined by them.

Jim Carrey

He wrote himself a $10 million check for “acting services rendered” when he was broke, depressed, and living out of a van. The next level wasn’t visible, but he believed in it enough to keep moving.

Sara Blakely (Founder of Spanx)

She failed the LSAT twice, sold fax machines door-to-door, and heard “no” more times than most people hear in a lifetime. She kept going. Eventually, she became the youngest self-made female billionaire in the United States.

Keanu Reeves

Loss, heartbreak, personal tragedy, yet he still elevates, grows, gives, and becomes more graciously human every year. His next level didn’t remove his pain. He transformed through it.

The common thread among them?

Not talent. Not luck. Not timing. Courage. The courage to face the challenge in front of them and say, “This is the training ground for who I am becoming.”

Your Next Level Requires Something From You

Not perfection. Not certainty. Not confidence. Just willingness. Willingness to take the next step even when the staircase is invisible. Willingness to trust the version of you that you have not yet met. Willingness to say, “I am ready to start a new life. Let’s do this.”

And if you’re ready to rise, here are the steps.

The 7 Steps to Break Through to Your Next Level

    1. Acknowledge the Calling

Stop pretending you don’t feel it. Stop denying the whisper.
Your next level begins the moment you say, “Something more is calling me.”

    1. Get Honest About What Must Change

Every transformation requires a release. A habit. A belief. A fear. A pattern. A person.
Honesty opens the path. Pretending blocks it.

    1. Strengthen Your Inner Core

Prayer. Meditation. Journaling. Self-reflection. Stillness.
Your outer world can only rise as high as your inner foundation is strong.

    1. Expect Resistance and Keep Going Anyway

Resistance is not a sign to stop. It is proof you are entering new territory.
You won’t feel prepared. You won’t feel ready. Do it anyway.

    1. Surround Yourself With the Right People

The next level is not a solo sport.
You need people who elevate you, challenge you, inspire you, and remind you who you are when you forget.

    1. Take Bold, Aligned Action

Not frantic action. Not scattered action. Aligned action.
One step a day in the direction of your calling creates unstoppable momentum.

    1. Hold the Vision Until It Becomes Reality

Everyone who reached the top held the vision long before others could see it. Believe long enough… Trust deep enough… Act consistently enough…
And reality will align with the version of yourself you’re becoming.

This Is Your Moment

You don’t need permission. You don’t need perfect timing. You don’t need everything to make sense.

You only need this:

A decision.

        • The decision to grow.
        • The decision to rise.
        • The decision to become who you are meant to be.

I’m ready. You’re ready. We’re doing this together.

Are you ready to step into the next chapter of your life? Good.

Let’s do this.

 

Lets Play with Our Multiple Personalities (not MPD)

People put all kinds of labels on other people and we try to put labels on ourselves, a sort of self-branding, as a way to make our way through the world with some sense of identity.

Although you are one person, your personality incorporates multiple personalities. Sometimes you’re the serious you, sometimes the shy you, sometimes the defensive you, sometimes the playful you, among other yous living in your body. Each individuality all making up the whole of you, and all the yous are growing and changing all the time.

Very few people, if any, get to know all of the yous which you express. Only those with whom you are the most intimate with and spend the most time around have any hope of getting to know all the personalities you have to offer.

Getting to know me

Like people who meet me, they are meeting the “me” that is being represented at the time of our interaction. Depending on when and where you meet me, you might become acquainted with that part of me which expresses myself as an author, public speaker, coach, consultant, teacher/trainer, scientist, creator, edifier, confidant, servant, shy guy, nerd, goofball, best friend, believer, romantic, lover, crybaby, defender of the underdog, supporter of the arts and others, live music or cuisine connoisseur, just to name a few.

Getting to know you

After you’ve lived with yourself, the you that is expressed in this reality as you reside in your body, you have a pretty good idea about who you are in there. We all express multiple personalities within one body.

Don’t worry, you’re not suffering from MPD (multiple personality disorder). We are all this combination of multiple personalities. It’s who we are, and it helps us to navigate our way through the world while we are traveling upon the path we travel.

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time in a professional capacity, serving others and the greater community. Even though the greater part of me is actually partying.

Let’s play

This is the beauty of being able to do work you love. It doesn’t seem so much like work at all if you’re loving what you do, it’s more like playing and having fun.

Even though a majority of the work that I do is relatively serious, the most joyous part of it is being in the room with you when you experience an epiphany. I mean, when your whole worldview or identity shifts as you experience a huge expansion, finding new ways to live and express yourself… Wow!

The only thing I can think to express the feeling of being there in that moment is the feeling of being there when my children emerged into this world. To hold that newborn baby in my arms, all that world of possibilities which lay ahead is a sacred awesomeness that is overwhelming, like being able to have a glimpse of life from God’s point of view.

That’s how I feel when someone experiences a breakthrough or paradigm shift, I am overwhelmed by emotion, blessed, and happy to be alive.

Yet, we all continue to grow and change, even you and me.

I am the playmate

I’m feeling more like even though I am defined in a professional way, I don’t really see myself that way. I see myself as the playmate of consciousness.

As weird as that might sound, I see myself joyously basking in the presence of others who are making their way through life the best they can. I can be their trusted friend, helping them and encouraging them along the way, anxious to celebrate the next win with them.

That’s the payoff for me, to play with you along the way and party in your celebration of those most joyous moments.

I just love playing with folks who are growing and celebrating with them as they go through metamorphosis, affecting not only their lives but the world around them in ways that couldn’t have been imagined before.

Like them, you can live a better life, your best life, and make the world a better place.

Wanna play?