“Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.”

- Stuart Scot

We all know the hustle after success. We are all so familiar with getting things done and being a high performer. Thus, I felt like sharing my philosophy in relation to the topic! 😊

I believe that this has everything to do with truly growing from within. This has to do with the making of self-awareness a daily exercise so that we can diagnose our limiting beliefs and rewire the distorted subconscious program we never wrote in the first place.

This has to do with being brave enough to commit to this real journey and bear with the accompanying pain. This has to do with becoming authentic and starting living ‘wholeheartedly’ as one of my favorite authors known as Brené Brown likes to call it. This has to do with centering our life on the ‘Universal Correct Principles’.

I know I'm repeating myself a lot and I hope you'll forgive me! I wouldn't do so if I wasn't sure about what I am stipulating. I wouldn't if I wasn't a "human guinea pig"!

Here is a quick sample illustrating the difference between what it implies to be principle-centered versus any other biased center. But first, let me give you an idea about what a center means:

It's from where we are getting our internal security. That's basically why when our center is the 'Principles', our security becomes stable, because it only depends on the principles which are unchangeable by definition. It's where most of our love and investment goes.

Let's suppose I have a kid who accidentally killed somebody when driving drunk. Because I am centered on my children, I will do all that it takes to protect my kid. I will bribe a killer who is used to being in jail to take responsibility for the incident. If my center was the ‘Principles’, I would have been the one to accompany my child to the police station.

Your center is the foundation of your love manifestation. If your center is your children, the love that manifests from that will mostly benefit your children. If your center is the ‘Principles’, the manifestation of your love will benefit the humanity.

Upgrading our conviction to match our destiny has absolutely nothing to do with reaching global notoriety through celebrating ones’ demons, by making use of one’s emotional smartness to manipulate people. It has nothing to do with being a ‘Mediocre’ person and doing ‘Great’ things, it seems to me.

It has nothing to do with compromising with integrity. It has nothing to do with all this sh*t no matter how ‘Awesome’ our ‘Achievements’ might seem to be, I suppose.

Obviously, we can easily get trapped in our old patterns, but with perseverance and having our discovered life mission within the process in our heart, we considerably expand the gap between the stimulus and our response, and develop our emotional intelligence: the most effective skill in an interdependent reality.

We, consequently move from being a reactive ego-driven individual to a proactive one reaching what my legendary mentor Stephen Covey calls the 'Private Victory', and, ultimately to an interdependent person!

If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant but I also realize that you & I, working together, can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I can accomplish alone. If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for giving and for receiving love from others. If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.

At the end of the day, we are no different. We all crave the same needs, and the best way to give back to the world would, in all likelihood, be by getting people to feel less offended and more inspired. This is, to me, our greatest success!