Who are you? “Oh, this is an easy answer”, but is it really? Who are you or who am I really? It’s easy to assume that we have true knowledge of self, but have we really questioned ourselves? I know the answer for most would be an automatic NO. We are all programmed growing up to protect ourselves from discomfort and danger it is only as we become wiser that we realize that is where the most growth lies & if we ever want to achieve great things we have to be brave enough to put our selves on the edge and honest enough to admit that we have a lot to learn about ourselves. My self-discovery has three keys to establishing that foundational self-discovery. Make yourself uncomfortable, educate yourself, be alone and great growth will follow.

Step 1. Self-Education

The first step to self-discovery is educating yourself for yourself. This means that you must remove all tradition and what you’ve learned throughout your entire life. It is time you question all that you were taught and told. You must even question your strongest beliefs and look at everything from many different views. This means that you must read books, have dialogue with strangers, and travel. Reading has done so much for me in my later years. Growing up, reading was the last thing that I would ever want to do and never in life thought it would be the key in my life transformation. I have read many books that have literally help change my life and my views of life. I have traveled to many states, and countries to discover new land and new cultures.

While traveling I have met amazing individuals that I had great conversations to help in my discovery. My trip to Thailand was the most amazing experience. I went to a bar in Bangkok, Thailand and met and older native sitting at the bar. He spoke English and was a practicing Buddhist, which he educated me greatly about Buddhism. I am not a Buddhist, but I now practice certain Buddhist traditions. I also asked my family several questions, why we had certain traditions, why are we Christian, and the why’s went on for hours. Even though I didn’t receive any concrete answers for any of my why’s. I was told “that’s just how things are and what was passed down to us”. I couldn’t accept an answer like that, and me educating myself on my own terms began to create the foundation for new meaning in my life.

Step 2. Removing Comfort

This education that I was getting for myself also created some discomfort. I was learning new things and found out that there is no right or wrong way to look at things in this life. People have made me think that there is only a right way and of course it’s their way. Educating myself has made me uncomfortable with family, friends, and society. I have also made myself uncomfortable with self-challenges.

Challenging what you think is not possible will remove comfort from your life totally. Going to a mosque when you are Christian is a challenge of comfort. Moving to another state or country when you don’t have any family or friends there is a challenge of comfort. Try new foods, new activities, and tackle all physical and mental fears. When you challenge your mental comfort, you will see what you are capable of and possibly discover something you like along the way. You can read about sky-diving and know everything about the activity but it’s nothing compared the physically act of sky-diving. Go ahead and try new things and you will learn more about yourself than ever before.

Step 3. Be Alone

Now while you are educating and removing comfort from your life, no one should be along for this ride. The journey of self-discovery is exactly for the first part “self”. Being alone removes opinions, judgement, and all the other unnecessary distractions. Being alone will help you master your thoughts and meditate to clear your thoughts as well. I want you to know that being alone does not mean you’re lonely. Loneliness is a feeling of insecurity, trauma, and grief, and being alone is self-love, healing, and secure.

I know we confuse the two often and it makes people feel like they always need someone with them on great adventures. This alone time will give you time to develop your thoughts and master your conscious and subconscious. We have full control of our thoughts and it seems that they run amuck when we are alone, but we can control them. We have full control of our minds and bodies, but we must become conscious of that during self-discovery. Meditate, pray, change bad thoughts into great thoughts, and beat positivity into your subconscious by reading, watching, eating, and listening to just positivity. Being alone and deciding of what you want to think is all in your power.

Continue Discovering

This may sound great but true self-discovery is never established because we are forever evolving. You can greatly accelerate you self-discovery but you can never complete it, as it’s a continual process. This start is just the first chapter of your new life. You must understand that you want to create a foundation of your own and not the one that was given to you. This is the epitome of living your own life and being an adult. You must always educate yourself, travel, remove comfort, and value your alone time. Your life’s foundation may change after some time, but the best part of the change is that you are changing it and no-one else is influencing your decisions. Self-discovery is liberating, scary, and exhilarating and should be done by us all as adults. Now go and be yourself and not what someone made you.

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Books! Does anyone read today? That last question is a complete joke. Reading is something that I picked up later in life and I fell in love. The inspiration, education, and passion that has been added to my character from reading or listening to audio books, has enhanced my life in many ways today. The foundation for my journey to success is made up of five amazing books written by five amazing authors. We all need tools that will keep us on a path to success. These five books are great tools on your path to success and should always be accessible.

1. The Deeper Side To Success…

The first book of the five is my absolute favorite and written by my favorite author. The book “Outliers” written by Malcolm Gladwell is the key to starting my journey to success. This book gives you a much different perspective on the outlier’s success story. Gladwell wrote the book for the reader to get better insight on the brightest, most famous, and most successful. He lets you know that the story that they tell or the story that is told about their life is much deeper than you are told.

Gladwell gives you an understanding of how chance and luck played a major part in an outlier becoming an outlier. I read this book and realized that putting in your 10,000 hours is the key to success, and that the key is put in the hands of an outlier by chance and luck. The book inspired me to put my 10,000 hours of practice into my passion for it to become a success. It takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery in a passion of your choice. Gladwell makes you understand that the generation you’re in, the location of your home, your parents, race, economic background, and a list of other things play a huge part in you becoming an outlier. – Top 5 Books For Success

2. Do You Give A F**k?

“The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F**k”, written by Mark Manson is my next choice on your journey to success. This book gives you a counterintuitive approach to living a good life. This book is for the person that needs a good swift kick in the ass. This kick is to let you know to live your life as you want and how not to let others influence how you approach your life. This is a book of “real-talk” and it holds no punches.

The book is filled with amazing and entertaining stories in combination with profane, ruthless humor. I read this book after “not giving a f**k “was already part of my character. This book gave me some great entertainment and reassurance of what I was practicing. Mark will help the person that likes feedback direct and to the point, without any sugar coating. I know most of us find ourselves caring more about others, than ourselves and this book will help you narrow it down to the things that really should matter in your life. – Top 5 Books For Success

3. It Makes You ‘Think & Grow Rich’…

“Think And Grow Rich”, written by Napoleon Hill. I am sure that most of the world has read this book or at least heard of it. The book was written in 1937 but has stood the test of time and is still relevant and life changing. Napoleon writes the book to show that desire, faith, and persistence can help one reach their goals if you suppress negative thoughts. I read this book and I realized how being positive and focusing on long-term goals helps eliminate negative thoughts. The title of the book tells you exactly what to expect when you sit down to read this classic material. – Top 5 Books For Success

4. He’s One Of The Greatest Creators In History…

“Steve Jobs” written by: Walter Isaacson. This book (biography) was written at the request of Jobs by Walter Isaacson. This book was an easy choice of mine based on my love for Apple products. I wanted to know the man that co-found a technology power house brand that I was attached to. I find all entrepreneurs greatly interesting, but Steve Jobs story has always been intriguing to me. This book gives you insight of a man that made the brand bigger than life and wasn’t the “creator” of the technology that was being sold. The biography gives inspiration and a great understanding of an innovative “mad-man”. The book is inspiring but entertaining as well. This book gave me the understanding that you don’t have to be the inventor of the product to make it your own and create wealth. – Top 5 Books For Success

5. It’s Someone YOU Know…

Now, this next book may be a shock to you, but this book is authored by YOU! Yes, the fifth book on this list is your life story. This book is something that has been collecting dust on your mental shelf . I first read the book that I wrote about myself at the age of thirty. I opened my book and realized that it was an original piece that could not be duplicated. The book was full of life lessons, failures, great moments, with joy and pain.

This book will help you the most on your journey to success because it gives you the tools and insight that is needed within you to move forward. This book has a chapter for your passion and how to get to your passion. There is a chapter on your failures and how they have given you wisdom and knowledge to be successful. There are also many pages in the book without writing. It is up to you to fill the rest of those pages with happiness, gratitude, understanding, knowledge, wisdom and ultimately success! This book should be passed down for family, friends, and everyone else to read after your final chapter.

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When it rains it pours! I am sitting in the living room and my relationship with life isn’t at it’s best right now. I’m healthy, my mind is on the right track, and I am in beautiful Miami Beach. What could possibly be wrong? My appreciation for those things are great but I’m missing something. Financial freedom and the number one thing, impacting others on the scale that I would like. Being positive has its ups and downs and the skepticism lingers in my subconscious. The bad seems greater than the good and the bad seems to stick around longer. Mental conditioning is what works best and it is needed daily.

Knowledge of Self

When I skip a day of mental conditioning, I get soaked from the negative rain drops. My mood is greatly affected and I can’t seem to get over the hump for the entire day. When I wake and listen to my speeches and speak all things that I want into the universe, I feel better about where I am heading. One thing that I am not, and that is an expert on life. You can only become an expert on you and your life and that takes time and the warm embrace of change. I know what works for me and what I need to do to keep myself going and mentally motivated. Why is that such a battle? It’s a battle because I have been conditioning my mind for about 2 years now. That means I have 31 years of negativity that needs to be removed and conditioned into positivity.

Tools and Preparation

The war is present and it is the greatest gift you can receive in life. Yes, the pain and sacrifice of war is the greatest benefit for you inner and outer world. You must have great mental armor for this war and be prepared to lose some battles along the way. You will lose some soldiers, and you will suffer some pain. You need a great plan when you’re in a war. There must be a great mentor, amazing friends (soldiers), and powerful weaponry (books, quotes, speakers, audio, and videos). These tools are needed daily and can’t be taken for granted. I am currently in this war and I lose a few battles weekly. Some days are hard for me to get motivated and I just don’t want to condition my mind. I must get into the habit of domination. I can’t take any days off or think that I have my mind under control because this war is forever.

Daily battles

I must dominate every battle week after week, day after day. Days off are a setback to what I am trying to accomplish in this war. I can’t afford to waste time or overestimate the position that I am currently in. I shall attack everyday like it’s the first day of mental warfare. Preparation must be the oxygen and fuel for my day, and there is no room for arrogance in mental warfare. I want all to know that the battles come in different variations and that your weapons and lessons should always be utilized. You need these things daily and talking with a great mentor helps in preparing and winning the battles current and ahead. Keep fighting and if you stay ready, you never have to get ready.

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