I have a fire in my chest, and I have no choice but to spread it. I want to scorch away your pain, and to scour your bones of fear until there’s nothing left but the white hot core of possibility. I want you to be reborn into freedom and authenticity. Don’t wait. Now is the time to throw yourself onto the fire.
I have a message for all of you out there who feel like you are living someone else’s life. Like somehow God has played a joke on you because you have this feeling that yesterday you were brimming with hope and possibility, then you woke up this morning in a room that seemed drab, and you got ready for a job that you barely tolerate, and you’re surrounded by boring people with silly hang ups, and you can’t shake the feeling that this is not the life you are supposed to be living.
I had the same feeling.
Then one day, I stopped. I stopped buying the hype, and I stopped running in place long enough to notice that the world didn’t collapse around me. Some of the people around me freaked out when I lost my job, more people than that laughed at me when I told them what I’d do next. Those people aren’t around anymore. That turned out to be a good thing.
By letting go of fear, you can open the door to a life in which you can do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it. You can contribute your skills, passion, and love to the world in whatever way makes sense to you. You don’t have to worry about money, you can stop dreading Mondays, and stop exposing yourself to people who drag you down. You can live the life you always felt like you were missing, just like I do.
My goal is to teach you how to live the life you’ve always wanted. You will learn how to demolish all the parts of yourself that are holding you back, and use the pieces to rebuild the ideal version of yourself. You will abandon the comfort of old habits and convenient beliefs. You will experience doubt, fear, and pain.
You will reconnect with the one you felt was there, but could never quite reach before: the complete, authentic you.
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