How Did I Get HERE?

A sharp dressed man struggles to look confident in an on-camera staged environment.

He stares into the camera lens and forcibly delivers the Personal Development Industry’s most overused clichés followed by a call-to-action. It feels like he is delivering an idle dare instead of a heartfelt, genuine invitation.

Honestly? My heart sinks a bit.

Watching his video was the low point of my past week. This so-called disrupter’s world of quick fixes, short cuts, and false promises knocks me down.

As my irritation lingers, I check the responses to his post. People are engaged and he appears to have customers.

I ask myself, “What am I doing wrong?”

Wrong channels

I know, for a fact, that so many of you do the good work — you choose the small steps to do a little better personally and/or professionally.

And yet, just like me, you sometimes find yourself caught off guard by what others are doing.

I’m not talking about the focus on people who do solid work, consistently show up, and genuinely want to serve.

I’m talking about the other end of the spectrum. Where we are distracted by people who take the manipulative short cuts — then portray themselves as humming along on all cylinders of life.

You see them on television.
On Youtube.
On Facebook.
In the gym.
On stage.
At the podium.
In the boss’s office.

Their messages elicit our negative envy-response and block our positive steps towards improvement.

Don’t waste any more of your focus on blaming them.

It’s us. We showed up for them. We rewarded their channel with our attention.

As I thought about the video that had led me to doubt myself — a question popped into my head:

How did I get HERE?

And just like that, the distraction and noise stopped.

In a matter of seconds, I feel accountable, I gain clarity, and I own up. I see where my attention has settled and realize that I must change. It brought me back to now. I tuned out from the wrong channel and in to my own channel.

Not my Youtube channel. But the Me-Right-Here-Right-Now Channel:

— The rules I have set up for my life.
— The simple positive energy and good people I keep around me.
— My daily quest to identify one person I can serve today.
— The 10 ideas I will write down right now that may be silly, smart, impossible, or possible.

Attention is our most valuable asset. And it can be a challenge to manage.

Nothing sucks the soul out of our most important journey like the loss of attention.

Sometime later today when you are in front of your screen — stop and really look. If you don’t like the message, the news, the tone, the divide, or the process… ask yourself, “How did I get HERE?”

Your attention deserves better than the wrong channel.

Choose the only channel that matters: your Me-Right-Here-Right-Now Channel.

With gratitude,

Joe

Hi, I’m Joe. I teach my clients the advanced techniques necessary to reveal talents which have been set to idle due to external and internal distractions.

I, then, transfer my Olympic Gold Medal performance strategies that streamline decision making and actions when engaged in complicated life currents with an aim towards the freedom of playing your own game.