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Episode Date: April 12, 2023

“You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are.” – Les Brown

Les Brown has said, you don't get what you want in life. You get who you are. If you put the man together, the world responds. You build yourself up, evolve. Life around you will transform. Someone once asked me on a podcast episode about imposter syndrome. Why I think it's actually a very positive thing. And my thinking is,

imposter syndrome is a sign that you're in an arena somewhat foreign to you. You're trying something new, playing the student. Anytime you do that, of course you're going to feel out of place. You have to. You don't grow without putting yourself in an environment in which growth is possible. We have to shake up the old in order to create the new, and it's that process, to Les Brown's point, that makes us who we are.

It creates our reality. Jim Rohn has said something similar in that it's not what we have, it's what we become. Having something is one thing, sure. But building yourself up to be someone who can repeatedly go out and get that thing over and over and over again, well, that's something different altogether. Are you willing to be that vulnerable? To start on the ground floor and work your way up. Because here's the deal.

There have been many times where I knew I had to be more than I've ever been in order to obtain something I've never had. And if I aim to live life to the fullest, and I do, realizations like this will only continue. Everyone knows it's painful. it's painful when there's a delta that exists between what you want and what you're currently capable of having or acquiring, that's a tough realization. And what epiphanies like that tend to do is leave you with a few options, right? You can run away or get better. You can surrender and find something lesser or become worthy of that thing you want.

Talk about a difficult conversation with yourself. acknowledging that you're currently not where you need to be. The ego does not like that. It's uncomfortable. It's why so many people raise the white flag and run. It can be much easier to shake your fist at the world around you than it is to delve into the one within you. Joseph Campbell has said the hero's journey is inside you.

Throw off the veils and open the mystery of yourself. Close your eyes and imagine a woman. world where you aren't scared to go after what you want, to grow along with your dreams, your goals, aspirations, where you walk directly into that space your curiosity is begging you to explore, where you condition yourself to depersonalize the criticism and failure and instead focus on the becoming. That's not some crazy proposition. You're not being asked to go perform some miracle. It's simply about giving yourself permission to evolve into what you can become,

allowing water to nourish the seed that is your soul. When you look around you and feel the very human thought that is, I wish something about this was different, I challenge you to be courageous enough to point in and ask, how can I make it so? How can I level up and become? the type of person that has X, that gives Y, that experiences Z. You are capable of filling that gap.

Again, not a negotiation with the world, but an agreement with yourself. To accept more discomfort in your life in exchange for the upside that comes with it. There's something to the saying, don't wish it were different, wish you were better. Because again, it places power and control in your hand. to evolve and make it reality. It's crazy to me how easy it is, and because of that, how many people complain about something their entire lives without owning the change.

Becoming the person who lives differently, sees differently, feels differently, it's all there. You get in life who you are. And how incredible that who you are never ends, it's limitless. If you're willing to push, to grow and change, it is your ticket to the ride of a lifetime.