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Mike Crowden November 7, 2019

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Here is today’s Game and what’s going on.

Here is what I discovered today in our Dadly Daily Declaration reading from Chapter 12 of Stop Doing That Shit by Gary John Bishop. The title of this chapter is “Redirecting Your Way Outta This.”

There are lots of nuggets again today as we end part 2 of Chapter 12:

How do we make this life of sabotage obsolete? There’s clearly no way to go back and change the past. What happened back there is still what happened back there. The past is in the past, that’s it, done deal and we cannot change it. So, let’s leave that where it lies. Let’s not tough it or engage with it. We can recognize it, we can accept it, and we can redirect in favor of something far more satisfying and filled with possibility.
Don’t poke the fucking bear. Build a better model. A completely new design.
Instead of trying to fix the broken system, you have to create an entirely new one. One that will authentically pivot you in an entirely new direction. A bold and invigorating way for you to live your new life.
That old way of life needs no more energy from you; in fact, it needs to be starved of attention and therefore life.
You need to be redirected. There’s an energy, like a force of nature, between what you desire and where you are. But this force hasn’t been helping you along. Not has been pushing against you, pressing you back to where you came from, and that’s why life changes can be so exhausting!
Your future has been anchored to the past. Why? Because your entire life is modeled around either getting over the past or repeating it.
Major corporations design what’s next all the time. They look to the future and make bold, unparalleled plans for investment or expansion or reinvention. They even set the date they intend to complete those unimaginable projects and brazen ideas. They then do something you and I don’t do.
They work backward. Everything they do is guided from the future. They start with the ending! they begin to be shaped and informed by what’s to come. Each new day is influenced by what hasn’t happened yet!
They start to have their vision for the future impact and influence their present. They are guided from the future, caused by the effing future!

Pick something fairly innocuous and random. Your income. Are you happy with where you are financially? Do you feel as if you could accomplish more in this area of your life? Perhaps this is an area where you have been self-sabotaging!
Let’s start with the end. Look ahead from this very moment. Let your imagination run a little to a year ahead, maybe two. What will your financial future look like then? Doubled your income? $10,000 in savings?
This isn’t the same as making goals or visualizing or manifesting, by the way. This is about creating your future and powerfully dealing with everything that comes up either as an obstacle or constraint or your typical self-sabotaging bullshittery. You’re being pulled toward that future. Not struggling to get there.
You chip away at and deal with anything that isn’t that future. And you love it. Why? Because for once in your life, you are the architect and the artist. You don’t need to be a warrior or a fighter. You become a creator, someone who thinks from the future, a visionary of your own making.
This is about designing the life you want. The kind of life that inspires you and lifts you up. A complete redirection from your self-sabotaging ways.
Try on the idea that until now, you have been hacking at that giant rock called your life with no real creativity or genius, no future to inspire the present, nothing to call you to be a greater self. Instead, you’ve been making a series of random swings at the mass in front of you to live in the hope that you’ll make something worthwhile out of it. Eventually.
This is about populating your current life with the kind of purpose and activity that invigorates you. A life of your design, one that compels you to act in new ways on the things that matter to you most! A life that each and every day your are working on, chipping away at that giant block of stone, constantly revealing and uncovering the kind of future you once thought beyond your reach. Every day you are either going to work to make living or you are revealing a future you never thought possible!

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Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:

In each and every moment of your life, you will be faced with a choice. The choice either to be guided by the past you had no say in or to be called out by the future you created. Uncovering your self-sabotage mechanism here has now put your hands on the levers and dials of that choice. It’s yours to make.

What actions are you taking today that align you with a new future? What are you chipping away at that reveals your work, your dreams, your passions, or your purpose? What lights you up? What masterpieces could you reveal?

What are you actually up to that would make this life or yours a truly great one?

Mike Crowden

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