I HAVE FIGURED IT OUT! You just see step 5 and think someone went from 1 to 5. But WHOOOA I need you to hear me out and let this sink in if you are really frustrated at lack of moving forward. I am going to tell you what I did differently that allowed me to get from point 1 to 5. (I am saying this instead of A to Z because that implies there are 25 big steps and I don't want you to feel overwhelmed).
The real secret here is in step 2. If you don't do step 2 you aint never gonna get to step 5. Yeah of course step 1 is important, but in my theory, step 1 is almost a natural. At least in my example that I formulated.
You see, step 2 is all about exploration of the curiosities.
That's it! Well in a nutshell that's it but I shall explain more. I am a creature of many passions and interests for life. Many things in life excite me. And in only the matter of a week I can have convinced myself that my future will go down 12 completely different paths. As the author of my life, one day I truly believe I am going to go nanny in Australia, and a few days later I believe that I am going to go get a degree in commercial music, and a few days after that I am determined that I am going to go on a long 6 month immersion 500 hr yoga teacher training in Guatemala. And then, the next day I wake up and I think it would be a great idea for me to go to an organic farm fresh cooking school. I'm telling you, I am never short of possible routes that stir excitement in me.
My Great Awakening About This
However, one day I realized something. As I was wrestling between some big decision, to sign up for something or not to. To go on a trip or not to. To get a certification or not to. To call this person or not to. I realized, that as I was sitting there having an internal conflict with myself about whether it was the right thing to do, and wanting to do something but then thinking of all the people I knew and how it might not make sense to them, or how it wasn't really in the same path of the way I was headed, I would stir myself in a cycle of confusion.
But YOU actually helped me make my decision! Yes, you! How could you have helped me if you might not even know me? Maybe you are reading this and we haven't met, or maybe we are friends or family. But you all helped me, and here's how:
As I sat there by the computer tossing and turning over my decision, I took an eagle eye's view of me. I zoomed out "Google earthing it" as I call it. I saw myself in the room, then expanded the view to me in the house, to seeing me in relationship to my neighborhood, to the city, to the state, to the USA, to the world, and then I saw earth by other planets. So imagine, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Earth, etc. and me sitting by a computer on plane earth in the depths of anxiety trying to decide. And next to me on this spinning Earth were billions of other humans doing all sorts of things. Laboring, playing, watching TV, camping, on a sail boat, gardening, yada yada.
THAT'S IT!
The difference between you and me, is that you were not googling the same thing I was googling. You had not gone back to the sign up page 34 times like I had. You had not meditated on it, journaled about it, and interviewed people who had completed the decision I was over thinking about.
Because that mission was not given to you. It was given to me.
I have curiosities and I let myself explore them. I think it's more fun to live that way. For example I have been thinking about Hawaii an awful lot lately. It would be easy for me to say "of course, who doesn't want to go to Hawaii?" But the truth of the matter is, are YOU thinking about it constantly? I mean deeply thinking and feeling it. Like wake up in the morning and visualize it in your meditation, or look at pictures of the North Shore, or listen to beach waves in your background. That is what I am talking about. So instead of brushing it off, I let myself be open to personal revelation.
What comes to ME is going to be different than what comes to you. I met a girl who graduated in Hospitality and Tourism from BYU Hawaii, and although I have never wanted to go back to school, and I am pursuing performing, I still let myself go to look it up this morning. Because when you do that, you get other ideas. When you pursue the search AS IF you are going to do something, then magic happens.
This is not to tell you this led to something grand but just to tell you how I operate, and operating like this has led me to the greatest of life's adventures. It has let me experience things greater than I even dreamed myself. So that is why, STEP 2 "Exploring the curiosity" is perhaps the most vital of all the steps.
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