CPC #44 WILL TECHNOLOGY MAKE YOU COMFORTABLY NUMB?

If you can read this, you are living.  But many of have an existence without the ability to thrive.  Have you ever noticed how as an adult, all the bright colors go out of your life?  What makes you come alive?  As an adult what makes you come of age once again?  Most of the people I've spoken to about this over the last few weeks think love can do this best.  I do not.  I think your inner spirit is critical in coming of age once again as an adult.  I think living a mundane existence allows us to become comfortably numb.   I think our technology addiction locks us in to this state.  It makes us easier to control and locks us in our inner cage. 

Today reject that confinement. Open the door of your cage and let your inner animal out.  Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy when you do this. We're all designed to be uniquely wild, but that is no excuse to not live your own life. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.  You need to shine this light upon them. 

For those who are surviving and not thriving, scars are like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional seasonal our old self lives out.

There's a point, in every life, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.  Many time this happens when we are young but more and more this process of growth is happening later in life because people forget to live their version of themselves when they were young.  

I often think about my past self and imagine asking the young version of Jack, "Do you think we can be friends?”  When I am contemplative, I stare up into the sky, and remark to my imagination “Probably not, but we can pretend for awhile."

My advice today on the vernal equinox is to put a block on your old way of living.  Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back from thriving.  Reject living to survive and seek to thrive.

I want to become the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to care and love them beyond reason.  To do this I know I have to begin to love myself and my life in ways my old self would have never considered. 

Your personal creativity is the catalyst to the future self. Only you can decide how far you get to travel in this life. Therefore, you definitely owe it to your future self to be courageous and ambitious enough to strive and thrive without limitations.  Your future self would surely thank your present self if you start to wisely invest your money in parts of your personality that is now bankrupt.

How do you know where to invest your time and money when you are in survival mode as an adult?

Give yourself permission to jump into something new today.  Do not worry if you have no plan.  

Use divergent thinking to complete the inner trip to build your adult desire map.  If you want to reinvent yourself you need to do your thinking a new way.  You cannot use the methods you did in the past, because the new person you seek to emerge knows old thinking will only get a recycled version of your past self. 

If you want to thrive, act, and do it soon and do it in a way you've never considered before.

Divergent thinking is the center of human creativity and most people believe we are born with it but I do not believe this. I believe we can teach people how to think more broadly by learning to examine things we do not believe or accept to see if they have merit or not. Divergent thinking can be acquired and developed skill when you get "skin in the game". I now excuse people who sense life with tiny thinking. This brand of expansive thinking is a distinct form of higher-order thinking and it can be taught to all ages of autodidacts. "Divergents" always give themselves permission to see things differently than crowds. Misunderstanding vanish when you train yourself to ask, 'What else might these things in my life mean to me?  Could these things be manifesting because my mind and body are out of alignment with the best version of me that is buried within? 

We've must reject comfort and embrace desires as we age.  The best way to get there is to use the rays of the sun.   Desire is a teacher for the divergent: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully for the first time.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves if we are looking to thrive.

Underneath our facades, we are wild and crazy in our own way, and we know it.  Embrace it.  Let the door on your cage swing open and let your animal out. Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility of what we are capable of.  Few ever tap it.

In the depth of winter of our adulting, you must come of age and realize that there is in you an invincible summer.

"All in" for the new you only require one thing........NEW ACTIONS your old self would not approve of.   Diverge from your old being and embrace the discomfort of doing things in a way.  Reject being comfortably numb.  Begin to put skin in your own game for a change.