Here is today’s Game and what’s going on.
Here is what I discovered today in our Dadly Daily Declaration reading from Chapter 7 of Stop Doing That Shit by Gary John Bishop. The title of this chapter is “The Three Saboteurs.”
Today’s chapter serves as a bridge between the previous six chapters and Bishop’s explanations of the three saboteurs. Let’s dive into today’s highlights:
- There are three pivotal and everlasting items, three fundamental cornerstones of life that came out of that thrown-ness, that arose from that myriad of established truths that became locked in that magic little sponge. Immovable and permanent stains on your subconscious that shape and contort everything you see and everything you hear.
- These are called the “three saboteurs.” The three saboteurs are the focal point from which all things must begin and to which all things must return, no matter how far you reach, no matter how great your life could be. You have an internal compulsion to return to them, no matter what damage that might do.
- A saboteur is a subconscious conclusion that you made at a definitive point of your life, the kind of indelible mark that stays with you to this day. It will remain with you until the day you die.
- You can shift how you relate to your past, you can free yourself from the weight of your emotional baggage, but you cannot change or erase what you have fundamentally concluded. It just is, and it always will be.
- You are guided by these three simple conclusions, and if you look closely enough you will be able to identify yours by the effect they are having on you and your life. Your actions are always in alignment with your conclusions. You might not immediately see the pebble drop into the pond, but you will see the ripples it leaves behind.
- By the end of the first two decades or so of life, the formative years when your physical and neurological development was at its most defining, you, like all human beings, had arrived at a set of fundamental conclusions about three things:
- Yourself
- Others
- Life
- These conclusions are each very different, have unique and distinct ways of showing up in your life, and, when combined, are loaded against your potential. They skew everything. Contort everything. And ultimately burden you with the life you currently have. The one you’re trying to change.
- Day after day, week after week, year after year, you see yourself in the same way, you see others in a very distinct way, and you see life in the same way you always see it. Talk about predictable!
Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Consider that every single day of your life you are viewing the world via a small, tightly wound network of your own doing. A constant internal framework that you unconsciously picked up and stored for future guidance. To keep life safe and survivable. The same.
You are in a perpetual state of fucking yourself over so that you can repeatedly save yourself from what fucked you over in the first place!
