everything you could ever want or are looking for is right in front of you. if you don't believe me, then there is a 99.99% chance you are in the way of yourself.

let me explain:

So, growing up, Pokemon has always been one of my favorite games. Let me tell you when I say I was ADDICTED to my DS, I would hide under my blankets when my parents would walk by my bedroom making sure I wasn't playing into the wee hours of the night.

if anyone knows where I'm getting with this, this is how the game is played:

so it raises this question: what in the fuck is preventing us (the humans) from doing the exact same thing?

you can put your ass in a video game and play for hours on end becoming the best. okay, so what's the problem doing it in real life?

looking back on this game from my chidhood, it's a life lesson in the fact you literally have to continously:

discover yourself (exploring in the game, training pokemon, and collecting cool things to help you along the way),

make mistakes even when you hate it (lose battles to all sorts of pokemon, pokemon trainers and gym leaders - a real hit to the ego when this happens tbh because i would just turn off my DS if i was pissed.),

and grow from those mistakes in order to keep on going to be the best version of yourself you can be (league champion).

trust me, you are in SO much more control than you think. and as long as you have those goals in mind (expectations of how they might turn out aside.), you will get there.

During my reread of The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer, the first two chapters go on to talk about how your mind is the translator of the world around you, and will look for ANYTHING to deter you away from something new.

but why?

because the unfamiliar is scary. that inner part of yourself is purely acting on the instinct that new things are bad.

the quickest way to shut this thing up is like this: let it talk.

no seriously.

the internal monologue in your head is essentially another side of yourself that does everything in its power to always protect you, and keep you in the areas of comfort. the beautiful thing about this is thoughts always come and go, and when you let them flow, they will soon be out of your way.

you can only build up to being good at something, or familiar with new things if you put yourself right in front of them.

for instance, going to the gym, or learning a new skill.

of course you're gonna suck at it. but if you put yourself in those shoes consistently, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, it will feel less and less scary every time.

hell, something as small as walking into the gym ready to go and just looking at the equipment for 10 minutes and leaving is already a start. it's the same with learning to write a book (me, lmfao.) even if it's something like piping up the courage to open my laptop even if my mind isn't in its writing state, to writing 1 word a day to 1,000 words a day.

in these scenarios, at least you're doing something instead of thinking about it. because at the end of the day, thinking is not doing. when you're stuck in your head deciding, you can't take action.

it's a waste of time, so you might as well say yes to the small efforts right then and there than to say later.

because later eventually becomes never.

letting go is a VERY underrated concept. it's because most of the time, we as humans are always expecting something to happen out of necessity, or because we are desperate for it. be it money, career, relationships,

just stop with that shit. please.

you have to believe that everything you want in life is already in your life. you have to believe that there is no way you're not getting the things you have always deserved.

get clear with what you want.

one of the most POWERFUL things you could ever do is say AND write your goals in the past tense. this writes everything you could ever want into your timeline of life. you have written your future into the past, so there's no way you can't get it because it has already been done. for example:

"i could afford whatever i wanted." "i traveled to wherever i wanted to." "i've become successful in my dream career, and i met my financial success because of it."

when you constantly say and read them everyday, you will start to believe it is yours. put a date on them so it gives you a designated time it appears in your life.

the key takeaway: you NEED to detach from how your goals happen. your goals have already been achieved, so you shouldn't feel this need to chase them, worry about them, or that they are out of reach.

instead, bring your focus here:

so please, get the F out of your own way because most of the time, you are blocking out the potential you've always had. all the answers you're looking for are right in front of you.