Realise your greatness

What if everything in your life up to now has not been random?

what if in fact everything the good and the not so good has gone exactly according to plan ?

I'd like for you to imagine that you are in your home and you are entertaining friends and family

and they're all in the other room and I'd like for you to imagine that you're baking some cakes and

you know if you're a baker like me you know that when the cakes are almost done that the

splendorous freshly baked smell gets into the air and is just irresistible.

Imagine that because that smell gets into the air somebody comes in and says "what are you doing

in here it smells absolutely amazing" and imagine that you reply "f**k off" they leave you take the cakes

out of the oven and instead of taking them through to your friends and family to share them you decide

to go in the other direction sit down at the kitchen table and eat every single one by yourself.

What does that make you greedy ? stingey ? as you're not sharing your cakes.

I believe based on my own journey that we are each given certain Talents and unique abilities and

skills and inclinations and a way that we are wired perhaps skills that we take for granted we have

also been given experiences the good ones and the not so good ones. We look the way we look and

we Sound the way we sound and we show up in the world in the way we show up and I believe that

these makeup who we are. I believe that everything that we've experienced is a divine gift and not to

be taken for granted and it is to be shared. Once you learn something once you experience

something it is our duty to serve to go forth and serve and yet if we take all of our lessons and our

experiences in who we are and we don't go out there and be of service to others I believe much like

with the sharing of the cakes that we become stingy and greedy and lonely and so It is our divine and

moral obligation to go out there and serve In anyway that we can serve because within us each and

every one of us has the potential for greatness. I believe that every single person reading this and

every single person out there in the world has within them the unique talent to fulfill a very specific

need in the world not just me, not just you but every single person.

Socrates spoke of Entelechy meaning the potential that is within every living thing within you and I.

Take for example the potential of the Acorn to become a great oak tree.

The Acorn when activated cannot become an orange tree they can only become an oak tree.

It's wired that way and I believe that we are all wired in the same way for greatness.

Derived from the Greek word for having a goal and Entelechy is a particular type of motivation a profound need for self determination and an inner strength, a vital Force from within directing life and Growth to become all that one is capable of. Everyone has Entelechy and I'd say that the Unseen Force whether you call it God, universe, goddess or anything else this Unseen force that created worlds, rules, created you. In much the same way as there is yin and the yang there is a piece of that unseen Force in you. God is within you and you are within God and if you are a child of source and of creation then somehow you have that source within you. The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, cats don't make dogs and orange trees don't produce figs.

So if you start thinking from this day forward that you are actually equipped for great creation anything that you set your mind to and believe you can actually create because you are a child of source and the truth is that you are wired for greatness similar to the Acorn you are wired to create great things but if you understand the role of metaphysics and the role of quantum physics and quantum mechanics you will also understand anything you put your focus on repeatedly and with a motion will manifest itself. Greatness is within you so. The question for you today is what would I attempt if I could not fail ? if I had the opportunity to make this world a better place in only the way that I can make it a better place what would I attempt ? that is the question now and the time to activate your potential for greatness is a choice it is a fork in the road you have free will you can choose not to activate the greatness that is within you in the same way that if I imagine that im holding a seed and I did not activate it by planting it in fertile soil and giving it sunlight and water and everything that it needs then it would not be activated and would not become the a mighty tree. In the exact same way your greatness must first be activated.

I've got 8 steps I only recently learned that have worked wonders for me and id like to share them with you so that you too can begin activating your true potential for greatness should you want to live a life of meaning and fulfillment.

1 Align everything that you do in your life with your passions. Steven Presfield said in the war of art "look in your own heart unless I'm crazy right now a small voice is piping up telling us as it has 10000 times before the calling that is yours and yours alone you know it no one has to tell you". You see your passions are not random put your ear down to your heart and listen. Why are you passionate about the things you are ? who do you love ? who do you want to be here ? what books do you read ? what moves your soul ? your passions are not random they are your calling. The sooner you realise and focus on these the sooner you'll start to activate your true potential.

2 Maximise the gifts that were given to you. I have gifts that perhaps you don't have and you have gifts that i may not have. This is where you need to be very selective about which part of you is strengthened. This is about strengthening your strengths and ignoring your weaknesses. Ask yourself what am I passionate about and uniquely gifted at ? those are your strengths you want to strengthen. Then ask what would I happily stop doing because I'm never going to be great at it ?those are your weaknesses ignore them.

3 Set the intention and send that intention out into the universe. Create goal cards for everything that you want and read it every morning and night, morning and night and over and over again this helps create new neural pathways of what you believe can be possible in the world and believe it or not these things happen.

4 Believe believe in the fact that you can create great things. Perhaps you doubt yourself sometimes we all do . You've done many great things in your life that initially seemed impossible and are now easy from tying your shoes by yourself as a child to riding a bike all of the different things that you've done. You have done some amazing things in your life and if you begin to write them down and whenever presented with an opportunity to do something big you say once impossible now easy and look over your past achievements it will help immensely.

5 Protect yourself from the naysayers. When you have a goal and your goal better be a big one and it better scare you or it's not worth it when you have a goal that seems crazy to somebody else they will try to talk you off the ledge don't let that happen. Instead definitely commit oneself to this goal.

6 You must take the first step do the thing that you don't think you can do this activates the greatness because magic does not happen within your Comfort zone if you could have achieved greatness within your current comfort zone you would have already this is about stepping up, being slightly uncomfortable and daring to be courageous even though perhaps no one else is believing in you.

7 Expect greatness, expect results even when what you want is not showing up. Theres a mantra that I would like for you to adopt as well. On a daily basis say I am positively expecting great results no matter what I see in front of me I know that the universe is rearranging itself from my best interest. If you say this all the time you're doing two things you're allowing yourself to be in this place of positive expectations that changes your personal vibration and allows the things to come into your life but you're also asking for divine guidance and what I've learnt about people who create things in the world is that they never do it along there is always some form of divine guidance.

8 Know your potential for greatness you were born with a purpose on purpose for a purpose and the way to achieve that purpose is to activate the great hope that is within you it is to say yes to something that you feel is bigger than you this is about denying the smallness denying the part of you that feels inadequate and perhaps not worthy or deserving or that you don't have what it takes on your journey to greatness there will be forces and people pulling you into believing that you are not that great after all you are not that special but there will be signs and happy coincidence is and occurrences they will tell you otherwise.

Believe in your potential there is a reason why you are here there is a reason why you were given these gifts and its not to hide all of those experiences all of the trauma that you may have experienced all of it was for a reason you have been shaped for greatness and so it's a choice between a mediocre existence and one in which you feel alive and of a purpose and you live a life of meaning and fulfillment everyday knowing that because you were here other people's lives are different that is truly magnificent in fact you are magnificent and I urge you to embrace your magnificence do so knowing that the world will never be the same since you walk this earth thank you.

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