I didn’t know how either

I Didn't Know How Either

When I started my company over 17 years ago, I came to a crossroads.

I had to choose between staying at my corporate job (where I worked for a direct fuel distributor) โ€” or walking away, so that I could step into something related to my dream (my lifeโ€™s purpose).

I didnโ€™t know what my dream or purpose was, exactly.

All I knew was that if I stayed in my job, I would never be able to live my dream.

Today people always ask me, โ€œDavid, how do I do this? Hereโ€™s what I want. But I get stuck in the how.โ€

Well, I was stuck in the same place. I had no idea โ€œhowโ€ to do what Iโ€™m doing today. I had to learn all of that along the way.

But I couldnโ€™t learn any of it without first coming to that crossroads โ€” and then having the faith to make a right turn instead of a left turn.

โ€œLeft turnโ€ was staying in a place that was comfortable.

โ€œRight turnโ€ meant stepping out in faith towards my dreamโ€ฆ and making the decision that I would let Spirit (or God) lead my life.

I had to trust that the opportunity would show up, and it would guide me to where I am now.

To the average person, thatโ€™s crazyโ€ฆ quitting your job to follow a dream.

I was married, had four kids, a mortgage, car payments, the whole thing. I had everything we call โ€œthe American Dream.โ€

I was going to risk it all to follow what some people would think is a crazy dream that had no basis in reality.

Iโ€™d never done it before. Nobody I knew had ever done it before, and nobody even knew how to do it.

How do you make a decision that seems absolutely nuts in most peopleโ€™s minds?

It required that I gain more than an ordinary knowledge of FAITH.

Faith would allow me to step out and embrace my dreamโ€ฆ and do it while knowing EVERYTHING that was required for me to succeed, would show up.

Thatโ€™s exactly how I did it. I totally stepped into that road.

I studied faith and applied it to my life. This allowed me to overcome a massive amount of fear.

On this day before Thanksgiving, I urge all of you to take a few moments and remember those times in your life where you stepped outside of the box, did something no one thought you could do, or really followed what your inner voice was telling you to be, do or have.

Be grateful for your own courage and faith and all the people and resources that supported youโ€ฆ and remind yourself that you CAN do GREAT things through the power of decision, faith and action!

 

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You โ€œknow itโ€ โ€“ but are you living it?

This week's question from my portal “The Neagle Code: Directions for Life” comes from Marty K.

Neagle Code Question

I intellectually understand the concepts of which you teach, but understanding them in my head is not the same as feeling them. How do I bring these into my heart/soul/body–internalize them– and REALLY feel them and own them?

Neagle Code Answer

What a fantastic question!

I canโ€™t tell you how many times Iโ€™ve been teaching someone and they will say, โ€œI know that.โ€ And yet, the effects of that knowledge are not showing up in their life.

Here is the key:

EXPERIENCE CREATES UNDERSTANDING

Let me explain.

There is big difference between consciously understanding something and subconsciously becoming that understanding. In simple terms, you have to live and practice the new knowledge.

Letโ€™s say an entrepreneur โ€œknowsโ€ that they need to stop hiding behind their computer. They โ€œknowโ€ that they need to talk to people. They โ€œknowโ€ that they have a fear of rejection, and thatโ€™s whatโ€™s stopping them from having sales conversations. They โ€œknowโ€ that if anyone judges them, that judgment is about the person judging and has nothing to do with the entrepreneur.

And yet, as the entrepreneur enters the room where they had intended to meet people and engage people in sales conversations, they allow their fear to keep them from speaking to a single person.

They โ€œknowโ€ whatโ€™s happening, but they havenโ€™t given themselves a new experience to prove that the fear is a lie. Therefore they havenโ€™t created a new pattern and integrated the knowledge. They donโ€™t truly KNOW.

The teachings that you consciously learn must become a part of who you are being, and to do that, you must experience them.

 

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