\u00a02010 is fast becoming to an end — less than 12-hours left, actually, as I’m writing this post.<\/p>\n
So, by now, you’ve probably received a lot of advice about making (or not making) resolutions, plans for the New Year, and just being a more productive, value-driven person in general.<\/p>\n
Scratch that. I know you HAVE! <\/strong><\/p>\n Let’s face it, if you have an email, you get all kinds of seemingly must-read advice (heck, sometimes we’ve even put “must read” in the subject lines of past emails).<\/p>\n So yes, we, too,\u00a0get stuff all the time… some of it great and uniquely usable. But, to be straight, most of it is just ‘me too’ surface-level drivel from self-appointed gurus-of-the-moment.<\/p>\n The approach we’ve taken over the years is simple, however<\/strong>:<\/p>\n We claim to\u00a0know little… unless, that is, at the time, we know more than <\/em>our current awareness would allow via experience. In other words, we do our best to NOT get too ‘turned on’ by any new idea, growth method, spiritual precept, or dominant social thought UNLESS<\/em> we see it as instrumental<\/span> in\u00a0moving us forward.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are\u00a0way, way way too many teachers, mentors, and social thinkers out there who HOLD ON TO one key identity, one focused way of teaching _____ (fill in the blank), or a belief about who they are,\u00a0and what they need to tell people\u00a0who have preconceived ideas about what\u00a0they\u00a0feel they want to hear.<\/p>\n Grandiose labels are easy to list upon ourselves — such as King of Manifesting, JV Prince,\u00a0Article Queen, or\u00a0Laundry Goddess, etc.\u00a0— but they’re just as easily detrimental to our RESULTS (i.e., “Am I really getting and doing what I say I want to get<\/span> and do<\/span>?”<\/em> )<\/p>\n We humans\u00a0 need to start\u00a0believing in\u00a0what we practice… and we\u00a0 should consistently\u00a0practice what we know to be effective for our growth.\u00a0Anything else is just talk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As Gary Ryan Blair pointed out to us once: “behavior doesn’t lie!<\/em>”<\/p>\n And, if we’re not practicing (or living) the exercises and inner-world insights that are passed down to us from teachers we cling on to (some of us in a more\u00a0worshipping, pedestal-putting way than others) — the very same “stuff” that we spout off to others, like we’re some all-knowing powerful seer of wisdom — then we\u2019re not walking our talk.<\/p>\n And, if you’re not experiencing what you’re consciously trying to get, then maybe it’s time to just DROP the crap you’ve dumped on yourself.<\/p>\n Instead, just strip yourself of WHO you think you are,\u00a0based on\u00a0somebody telling you great things (or maybe not-so-great things) about how you did this or that in the past… and do what our friend and fellow renegade-thinker, Mike Kemski<\/a>, is suggesting:<\/p>\n