The yellow brick road to nowhere!

Choices that we have got in life.

When we get born we are basically a blank slate, the first 7 years of our lives we absorb everything that surrounds us. That is the way we learn and get programmed with our beliefs and values.

Unfortunately for many of us these beliefs and values take us down the yellow brick road to nowhere. Maybe "nowhere", wasn't the right term to use here, maybe I should have used midiocure.

We all know that, we think we have choices in life but our unconscious mind is pre-programmed to follow the yellow brick road.

Our parents have been pre-programmed, they went through the system and they contributed to our programming. And of course not all is bad but our lives are governed by fear and the need to feel protected.

You have got two minds, your conscious mind that tells you this is BS, why am I dong this and your unconscious mind is telling you stay where you are, you are safe, if you go there, something terrible will happen to you!

So yes we make choices in our lives but are they really the choices we want to make?

Breaking FREE from the YELLOW BRICK ROAD

The older we get the more difficult it gets to change our believes and values. So what are we to do to break free from the yellow brick road.

In my opinion the first step is to realise what the problem really is. If you don't percieve it as a problem then there is no problem. This happens to many of us, we then go and dwell in escapism.

Escapism has taken many forms nowadays. Here a just a few.

• Alcoholism.
• Drugs.
• Excessive social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Pretending your life is better than it is.
• Excessive use of mobile phone.
• Plastering the web with selfies, look at me, look at me!
• Excessive gaming.

And you know what the really weird thing is all the people that suffer from escapism think this is the norm, this is how you live! They are being lived, they are scared and escape to occupy there mind so they can sleep at night.

So if you realise that your unconscious mind is holding you back and that that is the real problem. Then you can start working on reprogramming it.

How do you reprogram your unconscious mind?

Now that you know what the problems how can you fix it? You have to think of your mind as a garden. And you are the gardener of your mind.

Seeds will grow in your garden, you will have good seeds that bear fruits and of course you will have bad seeds that over grow the good plants in your garden.

So now that you are being the gardener of your mind, you need to get rid of your bad plants and water the good ones. I know this is easier said than done. You might ask me how do you water good plants in your mind?

The water in your mind is FOCUS! Things you focus on will establish themselves and grow! Things you don't focus on will weather and disappear!

So with your focus on good things in your mind you will harvest good things and of course with focus on bad things in your mind you will harvest bad things!

So if you are scared and afraid of terrorists, turn of your TV. Go for a walk outside in nature and you will soon see that life isn't so bad as it is being portrait.

Cut out the bad and let in the good. Start being realy comfortable with being uncomfortable!
Most of the things that we put our believes in our societies are blatend lies, lies to keep us on the yellow brick road.

Pave your own path!

Have you ever felt like you where a square peg and had to fit in a round hole! The story of my life. I tried and I tried but I would not fit. I found out why and it makes so much sense when you understand this.

All our lives, we get asked "Who do you want to be?". Many of us will answer that question with a person that we admire or look up to.

There is a enormus problem with this question and if you understand what it is you can set yourself free.

The problem with this question is that you don't have a choice in your answer. You can only answer one thing! I want to be me! Why? Because everyone else is already taken!

You can only be you but you can always be a better version of yourself! So once that realisation kicks in and you stop pretending to be someone else you can really set yourself free.

People will like you for you, because when you decide to be your natural self, your heart will start sending out the right frequency for people to connect with you.

So go out and start paving your own path, don't be a copy be an original!

How do I know all this.

I had a whole year of my life where I literally cut my self of from everything. No TV, No internet, limit amount of people. I can hear you think "Are you crazy?". No I was going crazy, I did what I had to do, I got myself a job as a surveyor in the outback of Aaustralia.

I walked with a partner 16 to 24 km, every day through the most rugged terrain you can imagine. Through salt lakes, over mountains, dence bush, desserts, through mud you name it I done it. With 15 kilos of equipment, water and food.

Every day 11 hours, 7 days a week for periods of 6 weeks at the time. Come rain, hail and shine. I did things I never believed I could do, but I did them anyway.

I did it when I was 51 years young, I was going through a bad period in my life, struggling with my divorce and feeling depressed. I was focussing on all the negativity and it was doing my head in BIG TIME!

So I decided enough is enough. I signed up for the job and they said they didn't believe I could do it. Boy did I showed them up! Yes it was tough!

But tough is my middle name! The first week was the hardest, I started focussing on the nature around me, feeling blessed and grateful. At night I slept like a log and woke up at 4 each day to start my day at sunrise.

The best part of every day. Every day my mind cleared up a bit more, every day I could see where I went wrong in the past. And eventually I was myself again, I scredded all the weeds in my mind and my garden started to look to bear some positive fruits again.

I was fully aware where my problem was and where my focus needed to be. I just needed an opportunity to which would help me to provide for myself and let me be me.

So I looked on the internet and remebered that I came accross Wealthy Affiliate in 2013, when I tried it but got side tracked by other things and gave up. It is funny how life gives you a signal and you decide to ignore it.

Not this time, my focus is laser sharp and my mind is cristal clear. Words are flowing in abundance and blogging comes with ease. It is just this stupid English language that drives me up the wall.

I tell you, who ever came up with English is a bloody idiot, no sense of logic. :)

So I hope this helps some of you to clear your minds and focus on the things that are important.

Cheers

Eric.