Discover Your Destiny with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: The 7 Stages of Self-Awakening. Robin Sharma
So we model them and take on their fears, limiting beliefs and false assumptions so we can be more like them. It’s all done because we crave to be loved. Who you are in this moment is not who you truly are. Rather, it’s someone you’ve become as a result of being in this world. To clear all those fears that you have assumed from the world around you, you will need to go back and explore the source of all your fears. Then you’ll have to work through them until they are no longer a part of your psyche. To know yourself so that your destiny will come calling, you must also pay more attention to your life and reflect on the lessons that need to be learned. You must be strict with yourself and examine your story.”
“My story?”
“Every one of us creates a story about his own life, even if he only tells it to himself. For some, the story is all about being a victim. They are the way they are because of their childhoods or because of where they grew up or because of the bad things that have happened to them. So many people in the world today are professional victims.”
“Why?”
“Because playing the victim is easy. You do not have to assume any responsibility for the way your life looks. You can blame everyone else for what’s not working in your life, never having to look at yourself and make the changes required. But when you play victim, you assign away your power to that which you allege is victimizing you. It’s a very impotent way to live.”
“So true,” I replied, nodding my head in agreement.
“The story that people create may be that they are too old to chase their dreams or not attractive enough to find the mate they desire or not smart enough to do what they wish to do. It goes on and on. My point is really this: The best move you can make is to work on your self-relationship.”
“Just like you did in the Himalayas,” I interjected.
“Just as I did in the Himalayas,” Julian echoed. “Most people have lost the connection with themselves. They have forgotten who they truly are. That makes me so sad. Every single one of us has greatness written into our DNA. Our lives were meant to be joy-filled, exciting and rich with love, peace and beauty. Happiness is our birthright. But we get in our own way. We have fallen into the trap of mediocrity. We believe that we are not meant for miracles. We play small for fear that, should we step out into our higher possibilities, we will get hurt or people will not love us or our lives will not work.”
“So true.”
Julian continued enthusiastically. “We buy into the lie that only money will bring us happiness and so we sell our souls. We just don’t know who we are anymore and what we were meant to become. We’ve unconsciously traded in the authentic power we are born with for the external power that comes from being in the world. We really have forgotten who we truly are. And if you do not know who you are and what it is you truly want to be, then how can you recognize and seize your destiny when it presents itself to you? Know yourself and, I promise you, your destiny will find you.”
Julian paused. “Okay, time to wrap up our first coaching session, Dar. It’s getting late and I’m sure you’ve had enough excitement for one night.”
Julian then put one of his muscular arms around my shoulders as we left the dressing room and walked down the hallway. Just being next to Julian brought me to peace.
“And all I ask is that you trust me. If you are willing, I will take you to a place you never dreamed of being. Frederick Faust said it well when he noted: ‘There is a giant asleep within every person. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.’ I will share the secrets that I learned high up in those mountains with you. I will show you all you need to know to taste the deliciousness that life can be. Just ‘let out all the length of the reins’ for once in your life, my friend.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Well, it’s a phrase I love. It speaks to the need for each and every one of us to walk into our fears, if we want to live big and gorgeous lives. It comes from something Mary Cholmondeley once wrote. Here, take this. It’ll be helpful.”
Julian handed me a slip of paper from the pocket of his robe. It looked crumpled from much use. It read simply:
Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, missed happiness as well. No one ever yet was poorer in the long run having once in a lifetime ‘let out all the length of the reins.’
“Amazing quote, Julian. Please know that I’m willing to do whatever you advise me to do,” I replied quickly, recognizing the giant opportunity that Julian’s life coaching invitation presented. I’d been hearing a lot about the value of having a life coach from many of my friends who also ran businesses, and I felt blessed that Julian had entered my life at this point in time. “How long will my transformation take?”
“Personal transformation is not a race, Dar. Actually, sometimes the harder you try to change, the longer it takes. So many people treat self-discovery like an extreme sport—rushing to get all their healing at a frenetic pace. They read book after book. They visit guide after guide and attend seminar after seminar. They want to know the answers to the big questions they are struggling with. But someone who cannot sit in the mystery of their lives and enjoy the process of personal growth is a person in fear.”
“Really?” I asked, surprised to hear this. One of the dominant values of our society is “faster is better” and to hear Julian reject this notion only heightened the mystique that surrounded him and his untraditional philosophy.
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