I am listening to a life-changing book called “10x Is Easier Than 2x - How World Class Entrepreneurs Are Achieving More By Doing Less”.
Written and narrated by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy, this book has completely changed the trajectory of my life. But we’ll get back to that later in this post, so keep on reading 😉.
Dan Sullivan, widely recognized as one of the world's top entrepreneurial coaches, is an expert on how elite performers think.
In this book, they use a very powerful phrase I wanted to share. They said something like If We Want To Have A Better Present, We Need To Be Moving Toward A Big Future.
Though I no longer coach, teach classes, or host live events, I still meet people caught in an endless cycle of complaining and resisting their current life experience.
Having their attention more turned to what they don’t wish to experience, about what shouldn’t be, than what they wish to experience.
And as a result, by virtue of focusing more on what we don’t want than on what we do want, we perpetuate this very experience by law. Whatever we focus on expands, right?
We need to have a big vision, dream, or goal we are moving toward. We need something massive that pulls us and inspires us. Something that keeps us busy working and figuring out how to call it into manifestation.
Most people don’t have a big dream or vision for themselves or their lives. They are not moving toward something that excites or inspires them.
They don’t have an awesome future they are moving toward, which leaves them in a void where their attention is pulled randomly to whatever is happening in the present.
And as there is always something that is not to their liking, as they have nothing else to focus on, that’s what their attention is pulled.
We Need A Big Vision For Our Lives
I recently had a student from one of my online courses reach out to share their experience and ask for my take.
They shared that they felt torn and split by too many responsibilities, to the point where they had difficulty discerning which were most important.
I responded that the way to overcome this is to have a vision so big that all other smaller visions fall under its umbrella.
When our visions are too small, every activity seems segmented and separated. We pull this way and that way, never sure which activity or priority we need to turn our time and energy to first or the most.
But when our visions and goals are big and mighty enough - I mean right on the border of impossibility - they naturally encompass pretty much every aspect of our lives.
Even seemingly unrelated activities ultimately align to move us toward that big vision. Which ultimately makes it so much easier to discern what truly is important and what is not.
To quote, I believe former U.S. president Eisenhower, who said something like
I have two kinds of problems. The urgent and the important. The urgent ones are never important, and the important ones are never urgent.
When we are moving toward a big and mighty vision, we will have less time and be less interested in complaining about our present.
When a great vision pulls us, our minds become too occupied mapping out the way forward to focus on our “small” every-day problems.
So rather than having excess time to complain and bemoan what is, our lives are infused with the inspiration and excitement of moving toward our big dreams, as our focus is on how to move forward and what our lives will look like once we “arrive”.
This is not to belittle or deny that there are things in our present that we wish were different. We are simply too invested in building a better future to give our attention to what isn't working right now.
Pause and Reset 🧘🏾♂️
Let’s pause here for a brief moment to come back to the nowness of this moment and to reclaim our minds.
So I invite you to gently close your eyes, bring a smile to your face, and to take three deep and conscious breaths.
Breathing in… and releasing.
Breathing in… and releasing.
Breathing in… and releasing
Now that we have reset our minds, I invite you to say with me:
All is Well
Something Wonderful is Always Happening
Everything is Working For Our Highest Good
Perfect Preparation and Unfolding are happening now, always, and forever
The Big Vision That Is Now Pulling Me
Here is the life-transforming vision I caught while listening to 10x Is Easier Than 2x.
This expanded vision of my future is still fresh and tender, and as a naturally private person, even thinking about sharing it gives rise to a visceral discomfort.
However, as sharing it publicly adds a level of accountability I know will serve me in a big way, I will go ahead and share it anyway.
For years, writing has been my quiet, hidden passion. I have lost count of how many books I have started, only to abandon them.
Writing has always come very easily to me, and I started this blog about a year ago to have an outlet for this passion.
For as long as I can remember, I've had a yearning and a calling toward writing, but I never really committed to it.
However, while re-listening to 10x last week, it suddenly hit me that to go 10x and accelerate the manifestation of the simple, peaceful, and quiet life, I need to pivot completely into becoming a professional writer.
For over a decade, I have been creating transformative audio and, more recently, video content, but it suddenly became clear that this is no longer the path forward.
Even though recording content largely lets me live unbound by time, it doesn't let me live unbound by place, because to reach the quality I want, I need a quiet place and all my recording equipment, which confines me to a studio-like space.
But with writing, there are no such limitations. All I need is my laptop—which travels with me everywhere anyway— offering me the freedom to work from anywhere, at any time.
When We Change Everything Begins To Change
This new, and for me, very expanded and somewhat scary shift, fits beautifully into the vision I have of my most beautiful life.
And having caught it, said yes to it, it is now completely changing the trajectory of my life.
It forces me to make a number of major changes in how I move through life, as well as in how I view myself.
There are things I have been doing up until now that I need to release and let go of, as they no longer move me toward a simple, peaceful, and quiet life.
Similarly, there are a number of things I previously haven't been doing that I now need to start doing.
I don’t have to do all of it at once, but saying yes to this vision requires me to become a completely different person than I would have become had I continued along my old path.
There Is Always A Next Level
This all beautifully speaks to how the purpose of all of life is to allow Spirit to come into ever greater and grander versions of itself in, as, and through each of us.
Or in other words, how we are on an eternal journey of unfolding, evolution, and ever-expansion.
No matter how far or great we may have become - there is always a next version, a next iteration of us.
A version that is dormant within us, just waiting for us to say yes to it, and allow it to awaken and begin to emerge.
The beautiful thing about this, and what I love about myself, is that we don’t need to know how to do it.
All that is required of us is that we say yes to it.
I actually have a rough draft of a future post called something like “Every Vision or Dream is a Divine Seed With a Life of its Own”.
In other words, every dream, vision, or goal has an intrinsic desire to come into its greatest expression, and the moment we commit to it, it will begin to root, shoot, and unfold.
It will guide, lead, and move us along the path toward its greatest expression.
So we don’t need to have it all figured out. Actually, we don’t even need to have anything figured out before saying yes.
But the moment we do say yes, the hows will begin to reveal themselves to us.
In that we can always trust.
Pause and Reset 🧘🏾♂️
Let’s once again take a moment to come back to the nowness of this moment.
I invite you to close your eyes, bring a smile to your face, and let’s take these three deep and conscious breaths.
Breathing in… and releasing.
Breathing in… and releasing.
Breathing in… and releasing
Now that we have reset our minds, I invite you to say with me:
All is Well
Something Wonderful is Always Happening
Everything is Working For Our Highest Good
Perfect Preparation and Unfolding are happening now, always, and forever
🎧 Complementary Audio Treat
The complimentary audio for this post is called Simply Say Yes, and it is about how we are not only wise to commit to our dreams and goals even before we know how to reach them, but also how nothing really begins to happen until we say yes to them.
Invitation And Empowering Questions
The invitation is to search your heart for that one big dream or goal you haven't yet said yes to, committed to because of fear, worry, or doubt.
Whatever excuses you may have bought into in the past, I invite you to say Yes to it right now—even before you have the path figured out.
Here is our empowering question for today:
What one step can I take today to start moving toward this vision or dream?
Be with this question for the next few days. Listen closely to what comes to you, trust it, go for it, and watch how your present dramatically improves.
I would love to hear about your visions and what steps you are taking to move toward them. Or, about what is holding you back from committing to them. You can either leave a comment below or in the community Chat
If this article resonated with your heart and soul, I would deeply appreciate your support in expanding this work—whether through a financial contribution or by sharing this blog with someone who might benefit from it. All support is received with deep gratitude.
Until we meet again, as always, I bless, bless, bless your day, and I bless, bless, bless your way. Knowing that All is Well, that Something Wonderful is Always Happening, that Everything is Working for Your Highest Good, that Perfect Preparation and Unfolding are Happening, Now, Always and Forever.
With much love and many blessings,
Namaste ✨💜🙏🏾
daniel