The Rise of the Chosen Ones. Joseph C. Parker
wait for others or events to choose us for anything. All the great minds that came before us chose themselves first as leaders. Therefore, we are all free to choose ourselves for greatness at any time. True personal greatness never comes from the outside. It comes from an inner decision that recognizes our own leadership, talents, and abilities. We dismiss the negative thoughts we have allowed to hold us back, and release the judgments of others and ourselves. In addition, and most importantly, we forgive others and ourselves for the past.
We make a conscious and real decision to change our lives. Did you know a real decision has only one possible outcome? Can you make a real decision that you will not go back to your old ways of thinking? Make a decision that embraces the only possible outcome where you hold yourself accountable and overcome the past limitations on your capabilities. When made, this type of bold, real decision becomes a turning point in your life. Remember you have no limits and fear is an illusion.
In my life, I have made many decisions that displayed that I chose myself for greatness. In one example, I applied for a leadership development program at work. The two-year leadership program had a history of producing promotions and future leaders. I took great care to ensure my application and recommendations were stellar, and I was confident I would be accepted.
Although I interviewed well, I did not get into the highly competitive program. My reaction could have been depression and loss of self-confidence. I might have believed it meant something negative about me, stopped working so hard on my job, and accepted my fate. Instead, using my own funds, I chose another path and enrolled myself in a leadership program outside of my company. The first class was $495, a significant investment in my self-growth. Since graduating from college, I had made few investments in myself. This was a new beginning for me.
The result of that initial investment in my personal growth has been profound. It started me on a course of development that has taken me farther than anyone who was accepted to the company leadership program. The awareness training helped me to focus on how to think instead of what to think, and I received a job promotion within months of starting my leadership program.
I used to think that knowledge is power. However, I have discovered that knowledge alone is not power. Power comes through action, and most training classes and schools focus only on knowledge. I now understand knowledge must be paired with ability, confidence, vision, and action.
My personal leadership program is focused on unlocking my self-confidence, creating a vision, and enabling me to take action on the knowledge and skills I already possess. The job promotion was just the beginning of a series of incredible events that have been unfolding in my life and my wife’s since we chose ourselves for greatness.
I started an Internet radio stationed called Program Your Life (PYL) Radio. I created the PYL podcast, which I host with my wife. I became an author. My wife has written her own dramatic play about hearing loss and acts as the solo performer and star. She is also creating a workshop and will soon be a speaker.
Here is what I have come to understand.
Self-Chosen Ones:
Are active creators of their lives instead of bystanders waiting for outside events to occur
Do not hope for luck to smile upon them
Know luck is for those who have no plan
Pursue their dreams one step at a time and do not need to know the outcome
Strive for excellence and not perfection
Stay in movement towards their goals and accept the opportunities that arrive along the way
Focus their minds on what they want
Do not accept well-intentioned but limiting advice from others
Do not makeup stories about what others are thinking about them
Like to be different. They do not want to fit in
Have a daily routine of caring for themselves through exercise and meditation
Always look for win-win solutions
Want the world to be a better place and find ways to make it happen.
Do you want to be one of the self-chosen ones? It’s an easy process to begin the journey, and there is a path to guide you along the way. It takes a single step to start the process. This single step, if taken seriously, will launch you on a new path in your life. Don’t wait to do it, or for someone else to do it for you.
Choose yourself to have a successful and happy life. Choose yourself to be an author, singer, musician, poet, businessperson, speaker, coach, leader, or teacher. Become one of the self-chosen ones by choosing yourself. Say the sentence below aloud if you are ready to become a chosen one.
I am one of the chosen ones! I don’t need anyone else to choose me. I am extraordinary, and I matter. I can change the world. I choose myself for greatness! I will wait no longer!
This process is how you will create your power in the world, and release yourself from the need to be chosen. This is your time and your hour and the turning point in your life. You now have been chosen for great deeds and accomplishments by choosing yourself.
Notice how it feels to choose yourself. Did you get a warm or cool feeling in your chest or face? This is how being one of the self-chosen ones feels. You can give this to yourself at any time. Repeat the phrase above again or say the affirmations in the last chapter to regain this feeling.
Write this mantra down, place it on your bathroom mirror, and say it every morning. Do this each day before you go into the world to feel your true worth. The world has been waiting for you to take your rightful place as a leader. You are now a leader of self and others. When you lead yourself, others will follow.
To become a master self-chosen one you not only need to choose yourself, but you need to believe in yourself. To do this, you may need to perform a form of mental judo. This is truly the hardest part. It is what is missing from the Law of Attraction, and many other personal development programs. We will use mental judo to uproot the old limiting beliefs about yourself and implant new ideas and beliefs about what is possible for you.
The old you probably lived in a box or a comfort zone. The box was built to protect you from the world and others. This box served its purpose while you were maturing, but now it may have become a prison that holds you in fear and bondage. The box often contains beliefs that have never been true such as “I’m not enough,” or “I’m not smart,” or “People need to like me.” In our youth, we decided or agreed these things were true and then looked out into the world for evidence of their existence. We found this evidence or we created it so that we could be right about our beliefs. The human need to be right is unyielding even if it holds us back.
The reality is we could have made very different positive choices about our beliefs, such as, “I am enough,” or “I’m smart,” or “People’s opinions of me are none of my business.” Unbelievably, once these different choices are made, we’ll find just as much evidence that they, too, are true. You see, we mentally filter the world based on our beliefs and our filters always will bring back evidence of what we believe.
Think of our mental filters as a Google search engine. When we search the world for our beliefs using Google as a mind filter, it will always bring back results. We use these results as evidence of our beliefs. However, if we were to search for other, more positive, beliefs these too would bring back just as many results. In this way, what we believe about ourselves is always true because we make it so. For this reason, be careful what you choose to believe, and I suggest you make your beliefs awesome. Let us now begin the process of changing old limiting beliefs.
The mental judo required to overcome our limitations is a form of reprogramming our minds. According to Bob Proctor, from the documentary The Secret, our minds have two parts: the conscious and subconscious. The conscious mind does all our rational thinking, learns things, and occasionally transfers knowledge and beliefs to the subconscious mind for future use. In the conscious mind, we create our goals