Dear Friends;
Everything in life changes from moment to moment; in fact, change is a constant law of nature. Given this, healthy individuals do some housecleaning of their lives every three to five years.
Housecleaning means that every three to five years we have to reappraise where we stand; are the old goals still relevant? Which goals have we reached? What is stopping us from reaching other goals? How are we self-sabotaging ourselves? Do we resist joy and success due to unconscious feelings of unworthiness? What kind of a person do we want to be in three years or five years? What do we have to do to have the life that we desire?
You will notice that people work at four different levels of competence:
- Incompetence: At this level, most of your colleagues are more successful and competent than you. You are dissatisfied with your life and lack of success is harming your sense of self-worth.
- Adequacy: At this level, you and your work colleagues are working wheels in a great big machine (corporation or organization); all of you know your daily tasks & responsibilities, and you basically just show up each day for a lifetime, receive your paychecks until you retire.
- Mastery: At this level, you are one of the best at what you do. You have been at it for such a long time, that you can do your job masterfully, blindfolded. You have surpassed the challenge of mastery years ago and have even trained many other apprentices to become masters. But now something is nagging you to take the big leap toward true inspiration but you are so comfortably settled that you do not want to “rock the boat.” You are beginning to rust from inside out.
- Flight of the Phoenix: This is the big leap toward inspiration; doing something that you are uniquely created to do. This task matches your unique talents and passions and this work becomes play; you lose track of time while engaged in this activity. Inspiration and ingenuity flow right through you, everyday.
I hope that all of you will walk through mastery and fly with the Phoenix. The Phoenix is your inspired Soul waiting to Self-actualize through a life that you were meant to live.
Many Blessings,
~ Kambiz Naficy
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