Finding Your Dot
The key to get to where you’re going is to know where you’re starting from. You need to find the dot that says, “You are here,” just like the dot on the kiosk map in the shopping mall.
Many of us are like hamsters on a treadmill, moving and moving and moving, just for the sake of movement. Yet we never really get anywhere, because we haven’t shifted our mindset.
Before you can change anything—whether your focus is your career, relationships, or financial security—you need to change how you think and what you believe to be so at the very core of your being.
To really understand yourself you have to get outrageously honest. It’s what I call being emotionally buck-naked.
This is a bold self-evaluation or self-assessment. You peel away the layers and take an honest look at yourself. You celebrate yourself—even when it feels uncomfortable. You tell the truth about where you’re falling short—even when it stings.
This is your opportunity to really stop for a moment and notice that every page in your autobiography up until today, this very moment, has already been written upon.
However, when you flip to tomorrow and to next week, next month, and next year, those pages are still blank. That’s what is so exciting about the Law of Attraction. You get to write whatever you want on those blank pages. You get to draw it. You get to create it. You get to expect it. You get to live it.
The biggest mistake most people make is that they take the pages of past chapters of their autobiography, cut them out, and paste them in their next chapter. They make their past their future. Just because it’s always been that way, though, doesn’t mean it must be so tomorrow.
The moment you are ready to own your past, the good and bad, the happy and sad, the highs and lows—and everything in between—is the moment you move into the driver’s seat of your life.
In our next blog post, I’ll explain how to gain control of the steering wheel.