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Scramble your association with the word "work".<br />
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Work is a pretty dull word used by society to wrap such a large portion of human experience.<br />
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Try to instead think "awareness" and notice if it changes anything in your experience. Don't "work", just pay attention...<br />
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What's happening to you once happened to me too and I can tell you how things evolved for me:<br />
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- Start an online business? Go down rabbit hole of learning as much as I can about "online" businesses<br />
-- Oh so things like Amazon FBA? Go down rabbit hole of learning as much as I can<br />
--- Hit some road blocks - make the thing too complex by getting way ahead of myself.<br />
--- Fear hits - the mind makes up an answer "But I don't even like inventory based businesses... "<br />
---- Stop learning about Amazon FBA<br />
----*STOP PAYING ATTENTION FOR A SHORT WHILE*<br />
----- Start feeling guilty that I'm not doing enough - not being "productive" enough - not "working" enough<br />
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- With intense emotions of guilt, angst, and more stress - go back at it<br />
-- Start a service based business? Go down rabbit hole of learning as much as I can about "service based" businesses<br />
--- [...]<br />
--- Hit some road blocks -<br />
--- Fear hits - the mind makes up an answer "I should just BUY a business instead... "<br />
---- Make the thing too complex by getting way ahead of myself<br />
----*STOP PAYING ATTENTION FOR A SHORT WHILE*<br />
----- Start feeling guilty that I'm not doing enough - not being "productive" enough - not "working" enough<br />
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- With even more intense emotions of guilt, angst, and more stress - go back at it<br />
-- Start a SaaS business? Go down rabbit hole of learning as much as I can about Saas" business models<br />
--- [...]<br />
---- Hit some road blocks<br />
----- Fear hits - the mind makes up an answer "I need to earn a Masters degree in CompSci before I take action "<br />
------ Make the thing too complex by getting way ahead of myself<br />
-------*STOP PAYING ATTENTION FOR A SHORT WHILE*<br />
-------- Start feeling guilty that I'm not doing enough - not being "productive" enough - not "working" enough<br />
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Do you see the pattern? I hope so. But let's get to what we learn from this process:<br />
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You're not "wasting time"<br />
You're not "being lazy or not productive enough"<br />
Your problem is not that you lack discipline, or that you don't care, or that you're not worthy<br />
In fact, there is no problem at all... How so?<br />
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I want to draw your attention to what <i>might</i> actually be happening: you are learning!<br />
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With time being a continuum of the moment before and the moment after, in the present moment you notice no change. You notice no immediate change in the individual, because you're the continuity of what just happened, and our human experience of life rarely flips from black to white instantaneously. It is only in retrospect that you might ever notice <i>how</i> the path changed, and <i>how</i> you arrived at where you are now. This requires time, patience, and a resolute love for yourself and the process.<br />
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What <i>might</i> be happening, is that you, as Thomas Edison did with many of his inventions, are learning how NOT to get to what you want.<br />
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What <i>might </i>be happening, is that you are learning to link the outcome of your current objective with what you <i>might</i> actually want out of life. It's only by imagining, going through the vision, that you might realize what the other side could potentially look like. And it's in reviewing this outlook on life, that you may begin to actually imagine what you DO want out of life, and little by little begin painting that vision in your mind.<br />
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What <i>might</i> be happening, is that with a lack of patience and with angst around what you <i>ought</i> to be doing, with angst around thinking you are <i>unproductive</i> and <i>unworthy</i>, you may be limiting your ability to think clearly and to truly use your creative energy. You <i>might</i> be subconsciously circumventing the creative thoughts that EMERGE out of you, by trying to force what they SHOULD be, comparing your endeavor based on what creativity emerges or has already emerged out of OTHER people.<br />
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To navigate forward, what you need is clarity. Instead of hopping around ideas with angst, what you can do is start simply by imagining. Yes. No "work" needed. My prescription is to put on some classical music, and just think. You don't need to take any notes, nothing to memorize or remember here, no to-dos at all. Your task is simple: observe your thoughts. Watch them go by:<br />
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" Oh did I lock my car"<br />
" Oh creating a YouTube channel though!"<br />
".. oh What about that new Acura I saw on the road, did you see the jerk that was driving it?"<br />
" This is a waste of my time, I need to be... I need to be... I should research more"<br />
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Simply watch what thoughts emerge - notice yourself thinking them. Notice that they <i>emerge</i> from within.<br />
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Now put a slight intention behind your thinking: "What do I think is cool? What's something I find interesting?"<br />
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Simply watch what thoughts emerge - notice yourself thinking them. Notice that they <i>emerge</i> from within.<br />
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Now put another slight intention behind your thinking: "What's an act of kindness I can do MORE of? What was that thing I said to the clerk the other day and he smiled so big? How can I be more kind like that?"<br />
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Simply watch what thoughts emerge - notice yourself thinking them. Notice that they <i>emerge</i> from within.<br />
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Now tell yourself: " If I wasn't scared of anything, if I didn't believe that the world was going to run out, or that my life would be in some tragedy if I didn't do the thing, you know the thing, the work thing, the being productive, working out, eating healthy cause fitness right, what if nothing BAD would happen to you, if you simply allowed yourself to be?"<br />
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Ask yourself what if YOUR experience could be ANYTHING you wanted it to be, what could it look like?<br />
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Simply watch what thoughts emerge - notice yourself thinking them. Notice that they <i>emerge</i> from within.<br />
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From THIS place, you may begin to see clues as to what your intuitive might <i>actually</i> be pulling you towards.<br />
From THIS place, simply pay attention, and let those thoughts become a part of you.<br />
No need to write down what you learned, no need to memorize, no need to go watch Udemy courses on how to pursue the thing you just thought.<br />
Just sit with it, and if you want, you can even "forget" about it and go do something else. Go for a walk. Go hang out with friends. Go tell your mom you love her.<br />
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These thoughts, you see, ALWAYS emerge FROM you. Your subconscious will not <i>forget </i>. You can always think them again <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /><br />
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By being patient with yourself, by being loving to yourself and the ones around you, by trusting yourself and <i>listening</i> to what the voice within you is saying, you will begin to see a path towards the thing you <i>actually </i>want.<br />
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By continuing to be loving, and listening to yourself, your mind will begin to present you hundreds, thousands of iterations of what things can look like, how you can get there, and in one of my favorite mental models: how you GOT there in the future. From the perspective of this random future you just thought up, what are you now telling your kids and the ones asking you advice about how you MADE it to where you are? Imagine yourself on a podium of people seeking advice from you, wanting to learn from you, what do you tell them life is all about? What do you tell them, that if they pursue relentlessly, could lead them down your footsteps?<br />
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This is where the magic happens - you see from your OWN mind, the universe will begin to manifest your OWN lessons that you need to learn, your OWN path, what you ACTUALLY can be doing, or what you OUGHT to do that manifests from this future.<br />
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Here is where you need to be brave: you need to listen to yourself. Despite what others think, what they may say, how your life might change, what you must do is recognize that this voice from within you STEMS from the Universe. Rooted deep in your subconscious, you will <i>never </i>be able to "forget" or "ignore" this thought. Only temporarily drown it with some other thought. Because it stems from within you. What you must begin to do now, is to simply follow along with the vision and the path your mind offers you.<br />
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One step at a time.<br />
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With awareness.<br />
With love.<br />
With faith.<br />
With compassion.<br />
With patience.<br />
With kindness.<br />
With the recognition that all will be just alright. That you will be just fine. That there is nothing to be afraid of. That your ability to connect with the Universe, and to imagine a new thought, is your greatest strength. And that you will ALWAYS have this ability - so long as you pay attention and listen to yourself.<br />
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I promise you, your path will begin to reveal itself to you. You will "dabble" in different ideas less frequently, because with awareness and an intuitive vision, you will more closely iterate on the things you want and don't want. With each iterative step, your science experiment will spiral you closer to manifesting this vision in your mind and your perspective will become more clear.<br />
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You will continue to find things you don't want. Or that you thought you wanted very deeply, but that you've now learned you don't want. That is also part of it - as you continue to be a continuum of the last moment, the present, AND the future moment. As your experience unfolds, new thoughts emerge, your perspective <u>will </u>change. Do not be hard on yourself when this happens - know that this <i>might</i> be what learning <i>feels</i> like.<br />
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I promise you, if you practice some of these mental models, you will begin to see what you <i>really </i>want. When this happens, you will no longer have to worry about whether you're doing "enough" or being "productive" enough. When you're doing the thing you REALLY want to be doing, every bone in your body will be WILLINGLY doing the thing. You will not feel much resistance, you will simply WANT to be doing the thing, because there is no other thing you could possibly want in that moment, because your vision is now clear, and you are continuously paying attention to what you DO want. This will make something "hard" or something you might label as "work" to be something so natural and easy.<br />
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Just pay attention, and your inner creative will begin to serve you, to serve others around you, and to manifest beautiful things in this world. Money will follow, freedom will follow, personal liberty will follow.
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</blockquote><a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/members/66764/" class="username" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" data-user-id="66764" data-username="@AceVentures">@AceVentures</a> , man, you are an awesome guy. How you put these words to describe something truly beautiful is very nice. Started to learn from you about crypto and now reading these words, said to myself "Man, I resonate a lot with this guy. He is an interesting person". Your reply is a process with steps which I will start to implement as soon as I feel tired or lazy. I have experienced this part, where if you just pay attention and see yourself where you want to arrive, you receive a boost of energy, to do the things. But sometimes I forget.. What I noticed also is that if you are looking at all these steps at once, you will feel overwhelmed and you will postpone the action, to do it when you have the mental power to do a lot. So for me, I try to just focus on the next step. If it looks too big, I try to make it very small, like dividing it in a lot of parts, until I feel ok to just do one thing.<br />
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Thank you.</div>
