When we come into this world we have so much to learn. We don’t know our feet and hands belong to us yet.
For the next several years our primary focus is on physical navigation, learning motor skills, then communication skills, and slowly we start learning social skills.
Meanwhile we are unconsciously soaking in behaviour patterns from those around us. We don’t need to learn about romance, relationships, money, taxes, self care, and bills. That’s all being looked after for us while we explore the world… but our limited exposure to it is building our beliefs around it.
When this happens we set out into the world and do what we know, and all we know is what we have been exposed to.
We aren’t a blank slate anymore. We operating with someone else’s system and start trying to apply our own ideas and principles.
That’s where the wires get crossed.
If you don’t ever stop and take the time to analyze where your beliefs, thoughts, labels, and ideas come from, the world will never really make sense to you. You will glaze over certain parts and wonder why you aren’t getting the results you want.
Maybe your relationships are failing, maybe your finances are meagre, maybe you have been hiding or escaping from life.
Whatever the case, self awareness becomes a valuable skill set because it helps you stop self sabotage and allows you to rebuild your operating system and then you can go where you want to go.
“Once you get the inside right, the outside falls into place” – Eckhart Tolle