“One of the reasons why you don’t do as well as you’d like or manifest as easily as you wish is because in today’s world people hedge their bets. They don’t go all in. They have a plan B. Before they are willing to do anything, they want to be convinced it’s worth it. They want guarantees it will work to their advantage. They’re not willing to go all in and risk it. Perhaps, this is you too.

In days of old, when there were apprenticeships, the master told the disciple to do certain things and were given tasks. No explanation was given because in performing the task, in the confusion, through the process of acting, making mistakes and correcting them, the lessons were learned. The lesson became evident from the process. Telling the lesson isn’t effective. Learning the lesson by doing it, is!

The mystic George Gurdjieff became known for giving tasks or exercises that made no sense to his students or disciples. He’d have them dig trench after trench after trench only to fill each one up without explanation. He’d have them sweep the floor clean and then have them sweep the mess back. He’d have them repeat this until he said ‘enough.’ They didn’t understand the purpose.

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He understood that they’d confront their confusion, frustration, limitations and negative thinking through tasks like this. He knew without a purpose, without knowing the result, without knowing if they’re doing it correctly, without clear explanations, they’d eventually come to understand! This could go on for hours or days. How would you react? Of course, some opted out, quit and went away.

Others had incredible breakthroughs because it’s about having the experience, going through the process, encountering one’s own mind and limitations but finding the way through it all to discover the wisdom that develops from the experience. Results aren’t and weren’t guaranteed, but they were forthcoming. Success through the process WAS and IS the program. Going through it IS the reward!

Today, people rarely act unless they first think they will get something from it. It’s not unreasonable, but it’s not helpful. You can’t be ALL IN the boat if you still have one foot on the dock. If, before you do anything you must be convinced it will pay some rewards you won’t learn as fast, powerfully or positively as you could. Not everything requires an explanation up front. Do it. Learn from it.

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Then illumination. Discovery is one of the best teachers. It’s not the answers you seek but the changes you get in going through a discovery process. You find it out as you go. You change. It parallels life and how our minds work when encountering difficulty. You learn what you do that makes it tougher and how to make it easier comes from going through it. It comes from YOU doing it.

It doesn’t come from being told, reading about it, watching a video or anything else. It comes from doing it. In the same way nutrition comes from eating the food not looking at magazine pictures. You eat the meal, not the menu. You’ve been conditioned to want to know what to expect through the educational process, media and movie trailers, all of it. You’ve been trained out of Being and Doing.

You are conditioned to be careful lest you be wrong. Being wrong is bad. You got red check marks and failing grades. You don’t want to make mistakes. You want to be sure you are doing it correctly because you were scolded for not doing it as you were instructed. Get it? It’s the past. This IS the very conditioning and beliefs we must alter, get over, and exchange for updated positive conditioning.

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Through the process, the excitement, the frustration, the confusion, the fear, you learn many things. You learn to manage your thoughts and feelings and stay committed. You learn to navigate the rough seas by navigating the rough seas. If all you ever sailed on was flat water, you’d never be prepared for sea travel. Learn by doing. Doing without knowing if you’ll succeed but determining you will, IS it!

That’s the point. Not knowing the way, or the way out, but figuring it out because you develop the belief that you can. Without doing it, you don’t know it. You aren’t certain. That’s why it isn’t about verbal answers, it’s about transformation. Some parents throw their children in the water for them to learn to swim. Some provide lessons. Both work because it’s experience. Try reading about it. Nope!

Learn to swim in the deep end. Stop needing answers first. Stop giving excuses ‘why you can’t.’ If an opportunity presents itself and your first thought is cost, time, effort, or any other excuse, you aren’t ready to succeed. You’re reactive, not proactive. You don’t believe in yourself enough to move ahead without training wheel explanations and guarantees. In life there are no guarantees. Really, none!

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Tomorrow is not guaranteed. The momma bird throws the baby out of the nest so it can learn to fly. It won’t fly remaining in the comfort of the nest. Talking about it isn’t flying. The young bird gets pushed into it by a concerned parent. It’s fail or FLY! That’s what is missing in most people today. If it is to be, it is up to me. ONLY through process do you gain valuable experience.

The Wright Brothers DID NOT KNOW how to fly UNTIL AFTER THEY FLEW! GET THIS!!! All the time before they flew, they were experimenting. Correcting and improving. They never knew IF they’d fly BUT THEY BELIEVED THEY WOULD IF THEY KEPT AT IT. IT WAS THEIR PROCESS and THEIR WILLINGNESS TO COMMIT TO THE PROCESS THAT EVENTUALLY RESULTED IN SUCCESS! DOING IT!

Knowing comes from doing. To know and not to do is to not know. The proper fruit of knowing is action. The more you learn to do the more you become capable of doing. It builds on itself. The more certainty you develop the more certain you are. The more certain you are the more you’ll attempt. The more you attempt the more things you can get good at. Skills grow and evolve exponentially.

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You benefit much more when you trust the process. When you trust life, the universe, and yourself and go for it you unleash incredible power and wellbeing. Might you stumble and fall? Sure, but maybe not. Still, realize falling is part of the process. Failure is part of success. The bird needs two wings to fly. Stop delaying. Start moving ahead. Dive in. If you don’t act, YOU don’t act! Get it.

Stop being afraid of failure. Get over it. Successful people don’t let fears prevent them. Stop hesitating and do it. JUST do it. Make it happen along the way. Be willing to be wrong to learn. Be willing to take risks to discover your power and wisdom. Willingness to learn differently is key. The willingness to surrender makes all the difference in the world. The willingness to change. The willingness to listen.

The willingness to give it a try without any promise of success. This willingness, I’ve just described IS what separates the successful from those who aren’t. They are willing to do what it takes to make it happen. Are you? Attitude is everything. Attempting something and ‘failing’ (there’s no failure there is only feedback if you understand this) making adjustments, corrections, improving, attempting again and getting more feedback IS the process. Like learning to walk. Do it. Fall. Get up. Fall. Keep repeating until you get it. Get it?  Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes