It's amazing isn't it? No one ever told you, did they? They didn't tell me either.
Maybe they tried, but I never listened. Maybe they offered guidance when I wasn't ready. Maybe they helped out the best they knew how, but didn't personalize the information enough just for me. Maybe the secret, was never meant to be discovered, and we're just told stories of how one day it will be revealed to you.
I think looking back, when I had a series of mentors that walked into my life, that was what I was hoping for. I was hoping someone else, had the solution for me. That someone else could just give me the right answer at the right time, and I wouldn't have to go searching. I really believed that the answer was right there, and ready to be received if one could give me the position and coordinate of the idea - I could just grab it and the need to search would end.
You are existing within a similar headspace, where spending the majority of your time searching, instead of creating or taking action towards building your dream.
I get it, sometimes it makes sense to keep searching for a while. Perhaps you will even find something useful - you probably do from time to time, that's why you keep doing it. You're not completely crazy.
What I have learned and I wish someone told me a bit earlier is that you have to just start. Start everything, all at once. There's no time to wait.
Here's what I mean by that.
We spend our whole lives waiting for someone to tell us what to do, how to do it, how to feel, how to think - ultimately, how to fit into the society, that you probably don't want to be apart of anyway.
Coming to this realization is the first step in redirecting your life. Because if you're being honest, you don't like how this world is turning out do you? It hasn't been working for you. It never was working for me - in fact I don't think it could of ever worked for me. I had to design a new reality for myself. And that's what it really is.
Every thing that you do minute to minute, all fits within the paradigm that you accepted and allowed to persist and become true. Did it all start from a thought? A trauma, that lead from one experience to the next, painting the canvas of the life you're living now? Yes. But the point is, the reality you are living right now has a design.
It has a schema, a configuration - one where when you apply it to anyone else, in any position, under similar circumstances, it will probably create the same result for them as it would be for you. In ways, there's nothing special going on, you're just playing out the design through time, of what would naturally occur when you follow the plan.
Do you like this plan? This reality you have allowed and the elements of it, some parts by your own making, some not. Some, your parents, friends and family's view, some your own. Some beliefs that came out of nowhere you're not even sure where they came from- they just appeared, and you never questioned.
The First Step You Must Take
You have to render the opinions that others have created of you to be to null and no longer interpretable. This means, whatever influence from the world, that does not directly affect and help you chart towards fulfilling your next mission - it does not matter.
If you're at all like me, when I first began the journey of self-actualization I kept wanting others to give me the answers. Either in chunks or in pieces. I suppose in ways you could say I felt dependent on the ideas others were tapping into, and wanted to fuel from their insight to better create my own.
This is not inherently a bad thing, what makes this an issue, is if you are always searching externally for advice, or someone to look into your reality and lend their set of eyes on what you're going through - then you aren't the one learning to interact with reality.
You may catch a perspective from someone else that's good and even helpful, but if you are not the one pulling the insight from within - this trait your self requires to evolve will not develop properly and it's a necessary component you will need for the new missions you will face.
The reality, and you are interconnected in ways we can't even begin to understand. This is why there are so many religions, and ideologies around this phenomena of the "god state" and becoming one with the source, whether that's something else or another form of you.
Isn't everything You experience You? Think about it.
This was one of the most important shifts I made that changed everything. After learning this and incorporating it into my plan for playing out my reality, so many things changed for me and it will for you too.