What would you say if I said that we all wear "Eye Lenses". They can serve as quite powerful assets or liabilities depending on where we find ourselves in life. A very interesting tool that helps us navigate the territory we call life. Heavily backed up by perception, insight, judgement and belief! I am constantly surprised by how MINDSET guides and allows the quality of experience we have in life.This became very apparent to me of late as I see new doors opening before me. And as I make the choice to step through, I am realising how letting go of certain ideas of how I see myself do not serve me and that the new awaits. By new I speak of seeing myself and life in a NEW LIGHT!
Lately, I have noticed at HOW I DIGEST NEW IDEAS / CONCEPTS that impact me and my life!
This takes me back to my teens. I lived in a small town and knew I was different or at least not meant to live the life that I saw my community subscribe to! At 17 I realised that it was my attraction to men that was more than just me being their friend! Somehow I knew that all would be well when I left my home to study in the big city and gay mecca in South Africa. Cape Town if you did not know!
I dropped the view I had that I was a freak, bad or did not belong and that it was ok to let that part of me come out into the light and be real / tangible to me and the world! That door definitely opened and I am so grateful to this day that I stepped through it. I now see myself a person who just happens to love sharing himself with men. It still means that fundamentally I am a man, a son, a brother, a lover, a great professional , basically ME!
A reason why I love watching Oprah interviewing the stars. When they tell their stories of how they made it, there is an element of "luck" and being in the right place at the right time. But what is sooooooooo common between all of them is their MINDSET! How they see the see world and how that has worked out for them. A mindset which was a deep belief which lead to powerful expectation and then it happened.
I believe this is true for me as well. My mindset and powerful belief and expectation made me decide and convince my parents that Cape Town was it. Being ok with being gay lead to a wonderful experience at varsity and has followed me into the workplace where I can me and be respected for my talent rather than the way I live my life. Delicious indeed.
I am seeing more and more as layers peel away in me understanding me how mindset feeds deep powerful expectations. What intrigues me more is how you work that back from powerful expectation to mindset! Wonderful that you chose different simply by using free will, imagination and desire! But I suppose easier said than done?!?!?! Or is it really that difficult to dream? I noticed this concept when I asked one of mentees what turns her on and makes her happy! As confused as she was about life and herself, she could in 2 sentences tell me what it was she aspired to! We know, it is making it real that is our challenge!
Bringing it back to me, I am faced with opportunities from all angles that make me very very happy yet overwhelmed by all the limitless opportunities that are there to be crafted for my benefit. The abundance scares me sometimes. But that is a whole other topic for debate.
My career has taken off and I can see how it is beginning to soar all in the people I have to engage with lately, the volume of people that now follow me , moving to a more strategic focus and being trusted to guide / polish important business decisions and now looking to shape, bottle and sell VALUE! My personal life is also making shifts, I am feeling sexier as the days go by and I notice how I am getting different reactions as I go out there, my friendship circles are becoming soooooo diverse and delicious in what I am exposed to in terms of mindsets, beliefs and ways of living. I see how there is a need to breakaway from limiting mindset in how I live my day to day life and to step into the world that is before me which is the sole basis of the Project Bliss : Coming Home to CB. I am putting myself in a position to look at the way I live and if it was a "reality show", would I be front row and proud to have played a part in it!
Anyhoo, all I really wanted to say is that imagination / desire / fantasy / dreaming is there to bring you to the door that you can step through to experience what simply makes you happy and feels good. Look at how you digest new ideas and concepts that get presented to you!
It could be something as simple as seeing yourself (in career) operating at your boss's level. Does it sit comfortably, does it excite you, could expect that you would rock at that? For us single career slaves, seeing yourself as a loving, committed husband/wife that has all the time for their family to share those precious loving moments? Even more scarier ideas that you are good enough just as you are right now! That you are capable to create the life you desire and that all the tools, ability and knowledge are already with you!
So open up, embrace, digest and simply breakaway from your current level in life! I am seeing that when your mind is in the right place, inspired action is rather easy as your luck (Universal guidance and protection) is with you . . . . The beauty of what my life is today validates that to me xoxoxo
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