Doing The Impossible

As children, we are raised to believe that anything is possible. But this belief seems to fade once the pressure of 'real life' kicks in and there are bills to be paid, career choices to be made, and social expectations to be met. When your childhood dreams are put on the back-burner for so long, how can you recreate yourself and start down the path to doing the impossible. 

Invest in your identity: Your identity is a fluid illusion yet it still drives your actions. You are whoever you think you are. With that said, you can work with this illusion to direct your life in the direction you want to go. Structure your experiences around all the facets of your fascinations. Follow up on places, people, and interests that speak directly to your inner-self.

Embrace your passions. Do your research. Figure out how the specific fields that interest you developed. Who were the key players responsible for making things happen? What is their approach? What cities/places played major roles? What are the philosophies and customs of those involved with such a lifestyle? The people that are most successful put in the time to develop such knowledge. Nobody knows you better than yourself. Your interests may change, but the drive to express your creativity/ideas will remain.

You will experience the world truly opens up once you've decided to dedicate your life to your interests. We all play an active part in creating our own realities. Whatever you think about will present itself around you. Things that are out of alignment with your vibrational frequency will fade out of your life. Keeping an eye out allows you to run into people and opportunities that will aid you in your journey. Seize such moments when they arrive and everything will fall into place.

Experiences stay with you for life. They leave their permanent marks on your psyche. Invest in your ideal self.

Challenge your thinking ways: Independent thought is not popular — it is absolutely, priceless and rare. Nothing you read about in the papers or see on the television is independent. Whatever we take in from the popular media is regurgitated conventional knowledge. There is nothing independent about most of the world.
This is a tragedy — independent thought is essential for progress. Conventional thinking moves us forward gradually at best (at worst it pushes us backwards). Independent thinking is required to achieve any substantial jump in performance.

Logically, when we think like everyone else is thinking, the best we can expect is to achieve what they’re already achieving. If our aim is to over-achieve, we need to avoid the same banal influences and think impossibly. We need to become independent from conventional wisdom.

Fortunately, you don’t have to be particularly intelligent or well educated to think independently. Consider small children. Conventional wisdom says that shoes are for wearing and bananas are for eating. Independent thinking allows children try eating the shoes and wearing the bananas on their feet. Their lack of conventional wisdom and utter disregard for how others view their decisions allows children to experiment without anxiety. In this case they may be wrong, but in other cases they can be shockingly right.

To do the impossible, we need to be like children in our thought; disconnect ourselves from sources of conventional thinking and being immerse in experiences that conflict with our current perspective. Randomize our sensory inputs, stop taking in the old recipe and Practice disbelief, instead of assuming that these “truths” are self evident, suspend judgement until you’ve have confirmed that there is reality behind the logic. Finally watch the process from a distance and see
you have created a world of limitless opportunity.

   

Let the right ones in: Inasmuch you are to keep your mental space open for new ideas that will help you challenge your thought, be at alert not all that comes in are good. Be like the farmer who gathers grains, after gathering he sieves the chaff from the grains to discard. Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in until you have sieved. Once you have allowed the wrong ones inside they have more potential to hurt you.

                                                                                            ...To be continued