Give Yourself the Gift of Increased Self-Awareness This Year

Issue #47 December 19, 2020

One of my top 15 books of all time is Psycho-Cybernetics written in 1960 by Maxwell Maltz, MD. One of the key takeaways is that you and I can never outperform our own self-image. It is also very clear that you and I cannot access new opportunities unless we expand our comfort zone and level-up our self-awareness.

After all the self-image is not who we are to other people (our public self) but who we are to ourselves and how we perceive our own abilities, capacities, strengths, vulnerabilities, and intentions when we have stripped away the inauthentic notions of who we “ought” to be.

We are born with limitless potential for the amount of time we will be granted in this human experience. Simply put we have far more things we could do, then we will ever have time to actually do, so the gift of our free will to choose what and how we wish to create and utilize those latencies is truly one of our largest blessings. One we sometimes (without the knowledge or intent) may squander by robotically moving down the path of some other creator’s design without being consciously aware of how relevant or “on purpose” we may be.

Raising our performance in any area of wealth and health begins with first raising our total state of awareness and shifting our own self-image from one that is desirous of a new outcome to one of expectation and worthiness. This is a hard bridge for many to cross because it flies right in the face of the comfortable paradigms and hardcoded norms that were implanted in us along the way before we knew we were choosing them or opted in by default.

The 36-minute lesson below that I recently delivered to the UWYO undergrad and graduate students who are a part of our Sandcastle Foundation S.N.A.P. (Sandcastle NextGen Apprentice Platform) is a gift that you can give yourself this holiday season and I hope it resonates with you as much as it reminds me of where my own focus must go each time I deliver it to an audience or team in our portfolio. Enjoy and here is to you gaining more mastery of you in 2020! ~ Chris